- 1770 in poetry
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Works published
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Oliver Goldsmith , "The Deserted Village"
*Phillis Wheatley , a poetic tribute toGeorge Whitefield that received widespread acclaim
*Thomas Warton , "Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems", criticismBirths
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George Canning
*Joseph Cottle
*James Hogg
*James Plumptre
*April 7 —William Wordsworth , English poet (died 1850)Deaths
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June 23 —Mark Akenside , 48, British poet
*August 24 —Thomas Chatterton , English poet and forger of pseudo-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 anicon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics.ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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