1770 in literature

1770 in literature

The year 1770 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* In April, James Cook discovered Botany Bay

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"

New drama

* 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"
* Richard Cumberland - "The Brothers"
* 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"

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"

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

Deaths

* August 24 - Thomas Chatterton (suicide)
* November 1 - Alexander Cruden
* November 24 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault
* George Whitefield, evangelist

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