1741 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1731 . 1732 . 1733 . 1734 . 1735 . 1736 . 1737 ...; 1738 1739 1740 -1741- 1742 1743 1744; ... 1745 . 1746 . 1747 . 1748 . 1749 . 1750 . 1751 ... In literature: 1738 1739 1740 -1741- 1742 1743 1744
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

Thomas Seaton, who died this year, bequeathed the money to the University of Cambridge to establish the Seatonian Prize for religious poetry.

Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines [. . .] Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American^[1]

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle^[2]
Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way^[2]
Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translatiion from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum^[2]
Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously^[2]
William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules^[2]
Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy^[2]
John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739)^[2]
William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse

Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

March 25 – Daniel Schiebeler (died 1771) German writer and poet
April 11 – Johann Heinrich Merck (died 1791), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet
November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (died 1801), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

↑ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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