1770 in poetry

Long as in Freedom's Cause the wise contend, Dear to your unity shall Fame extend; While to the World, the letter's Stone shall tell, How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Mav'rick fell.

"On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770", about the Boston Massacre Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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The Death of Chatterton , 1856, by Henry Wallis , the most famous image of Thomas Chatterton in the 19th century. The English poet and forger committed suicide on August 24, at the age of 17. (The figure of the poet was modelled by the young George Meredith )