1770 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1770.

Events

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
Immanuel Kant - Dissertation on the Form and Principles of the Sensible and the Intelligible World (De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis, inaugural dissertation)
Catharine Macaulay - Observations on a Pamphlet Entitled, Thoughts on the Present Discontents (in response to Burke)
Louis-Sébastien Mercier - L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais
Thomas Percy - Northern Antiquities
Raynal - A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies^[1]
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

"Oh, What a Charming Thing's a Battle!", from Charles Dibdin and Isaac Bickerstaff's The Recruiting Serjeant (1770). Sung by Leon Lishner.

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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
Alonso Verdugo, Earl of Torrepalma (ed. Juan José López de Sedano) - Deucalión
[Nicolás Fernandez de Moratín] - Arte de las putas

February 16 (bapt.) – Barbara Hofland, English children's and schoolbook author (died 1844)
March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet (died 1843
April 7 – William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet (died 1850
October 2 – James Plumptre, English dramatist and cleric (died 1832)
December 9 (bapt.) – James Hogg, "the Ettrick shepherd", Scottish poet and novelist (died 1835)
Possible year – John Joseph Stockdale, English editor and publisher (died 1847)

July 2 – James Parker, American printer and publisher (born 1714)
July 21 – Charlotta Frölich, Swedish poet and political writer (born 1698)
August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger (suicide, born 1752)
September 30 – George Whitefield, English-born evangelist (born 1714)
November 1 – Alexander Cruden, Scottish compiler of Bible concordance (born 1699)
November 24 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (born 1685)
Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish Gaelic poet (born c. 1698)