1770 in poetry

none 1770 poetry literature Long as in Freedom's Cause the wise contend, Dear to your unity shall Fame extend; While to the World, the letter's Stone shall tell, How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Mav'rick fell. "On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770", about the Boston Massacre Phillis Wheatley Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Works published Colonial America William Billings, The New England Psalm-SingerLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press William Livingsotn: "A Soliloquy" "America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies" John Trumbull, "An Essay on the Uses and Advantages of the Fine Arts" Phillis Wheatley: "On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770" about the Boston Massacre which had taken place near Wheatley's homeGates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20 an elegy to George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport. It was published in London in 1771.Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 21, 22 United Kingdom thumb|350px|right|The Death of Chatterton, 1856, by Henry Wallis, the most famous image of Thomas Chatterton in the 19th century. The English poet and forger committed suicide on August 24, at the age of 17. (The figure of the poet was modelled by the young George Meredith) John Armstrong, Miscellanies,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 poetry and prose by a physician writer Michael Bruce, Poems on Several Occasions Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, editor, Ancient Scottish Poems, an anthology Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in May Thomas Warton, Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems, criticism William Woty, Poetical Works Other Martin Wieland, Graces, GermanyThomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009 Voltaire, Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs ("Letter to the author of The Three Impostors"); France Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 1 – Robert Anderson (died 1833), English Cumbrian dialect poet March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin (died 1843), German April 7 – William Wordsworth (died 1850), English Poet Laureate April 11 – George Canning (died 1827), English prime minister and occasional poet December 9 bapt. – James Hogg (died 1835), Scottish poet and novelist writing in both Scots and English Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: c. January – William Falconer (born 1732), Scottish poet (lost at sea) June 21 – Charlotta Frölich (born 1698), Swedish writer June 23 – Mark Akenside (born 1721), British poet and physician August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (born 1752), suicide by arsenic poisoning rather than death by starvation aged 17; although his death is little noticed at the time, he is later an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics Also: Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (born 1724), German Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (born c.1698), Scottish Gaelic poet Kunchan Nambiar (born 1705), Malayalam language poet, performer, satirist See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature 18th century in poetry 18th century in literature French literature of the 18th century Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s List of years in poetry Poetry Notes Category:18th-century poetry Poetry