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
"On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770" about the
Boston Massacre which had taken place near Wheatley's home[2]
an elegy to
George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport. It was published in London in
1771.[3]
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)
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 unacknowledged genius for the
Romantics
Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in
German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
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abcdLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books.
ISBN978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20
^Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books.
ISBN978-0-465-01850-5, p. 21, 22
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abcdeCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6