1770 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1770.Events
Prose
- 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
- Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge – Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca
- 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
- Catharine Macaulay – Observations on a Pamphlet Entitled, Thoughts on the Present Discontents
- 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
- Catherine Talbot – Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week
- John Horne Tooke – Genuine Copies of All the Letters... Relative to the Execution of Doyle and Valine
- 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
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
- Johannes Ewald – Rolf Krage
- Samuel Foote – The Lame Lover
- Francis Gentleman – The Sultan
- John Hoole – Timanthes
- Hugh Kelly – A Word to the Wise
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier – Le Déserteur
- George Alexander Stevens – The Court of Alexander
- Ramón de la Cruz – El rastro por la mañana
- Nicolás Fernandez de MoratÃn – Hormesinda
Poetry
- Michael Bruce – Poems on Several Occasions
- David Dalrymple – Ancient Scottish Poems
- Oliver Goldsmith – The Deserted Village
- William Woty – Works
Births
- February 16 ' – Barbara Hofland, English children's and schoolbook author
- March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet
- December 9 ' – James Hogg, "the Ettrick shepherd", Scottish poet and novelist
- Possible year – John Joseph Stockdale, English editor and publisher
Deaths
- July 2 – James Parker, American printer and publisher
- July 21 – Charlotta Frölich, Swedish poet and political writer
- August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger
- September 30 – George Whitefield, English-born evangelist
- November 1 – Alexander Cruden, Scottish compiler of Bible concordance
- November 24 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian
- Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish Gaelic poet
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