1770 in poetry
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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.
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)
1752 in poetry
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1770 in poetry
…June 23 – Mark Akenside (born 1721), British poet and physician August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (born 1752), suicide by arsenic poisoning rather than death by starvation aged 17; although his death is little noticed at the time, he is later an icon of…
Thomas Chatterton's birthplace in Bristol