1770 in literature
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The year 1770 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- In April, James Cook discovered Botany Bay
[edit] New books
- John Armstrong - Miscellanies
- James Beattie -An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
- Edmund Burke - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
- William Duff - Critical Observations on the Writings of the Most Celebrated Geniuses in Poetry
- Edward Gibbon - Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid
- Oliver Goldsmith:
- The Life of Thomas Parnell
- Life of Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke
- Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince
- Baron d'Holbach - The System of Nature
- Samuel Johnson - The False Alarm
- Catharine Macaulay - Observations on a Pamphlet Entitled, Thoughts on the Present Discontents (in response to Burke)
- L. S. Mercier - Memoirs of the Year 2500
- Thomas Percy - Northern Antiquities
- Catherine Talbot - Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week
- Augustus Montague Toplady - A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley
- Voltaire - Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs
- Arthur Young - A Six Months Tour Through the North of England
[edit] New drama
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- Pierre de Beaumarchais - Les Deux Amis
- Isaac Bickerstaffe - The Recruiting Serjeant
- Frances Brooke - Memoirs of the Marquis de St Forlaix
- George Colman the Elder - Man and Wife
- Johannes Ewald - Rolf Krage
- Samuel Foote - The Lame Lover
- Francis Gentleman - The Sultan
- John Hoole - Timanthes
- Hugh Kelly - A Word to the Wise
- George Alexander Stevens - The Court of Alexander
[edit] Poetry
- Michael Bruce - Poems on Several Occasions
- David Dalrymple - Ancient Scottish Poems
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
- William Mickle - Voltaire in the Shades
- William Woty - Works
[edit] Births
- March 20 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet
- April 7 - William Wordsworth
- unknown date - James Hogg
- James Plumptre
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- John Joseph Stockdale, English publisher
[edit] Deaths
- August 24 - Thomas Chatterton (suicide)
- November 1 - Alexander Cruden
- November 24 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault
- George Whitefield, evangelist