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| ** "On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770" about the ] which had taken place near Wheatley's home<ref>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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20</ref> | ** "On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770" about the ] which had taken place near Wheatley's home<ref>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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20</ref> | ||
| ** an elegy to ] that received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in newport, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport.<ref>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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 21</ref> | |||
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Overview of the events of 1770 in poetry
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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-Singer
- 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 home
- 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, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport.
United Kingdom
- John Armstrong, Miscellanies, 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, Germany
- 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 " in poetry" article:
- March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin (died 1843), German
- April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (died 1850)
- April 11 – George Canning (died 1827), English politician and statesman who became prime minister and wrote poetry
- Also:
- James Hogg (died 1835), Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English
- James Plumptre (died 1832), English poet and writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- June 23 – Mark Akenside (born 1721), 48, 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 at the young age of 17. Although his death was little noticed at the time, he was later an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics.
- Also:
- Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (born 1724), German
- Kunchan Nambiar (born 1705), Malayalam language poet, performer, satirist
- Francis Williams (born 1702), black Jamaican scholar and poet
See also
- 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
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- 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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20
- 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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 21
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
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