| List of years in poetry (table) |
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| ... 1733 . 1734 . 1735 . 1736 . 1737 . 1738 . 1739 ... 1740 1741 1742 -1743- 1744 1745 1746 ... 1747 . 1748 . 1749 . 1750 . 1751 . 1752 . 1753 ... In literature: 1740 1741 1742 -1743- 1744 1745 1746 |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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Works publishedEdit
Colonial AmericaEdit
- Joseph Green (poet), "The Disappointed Cooper", mocking an old man's marriage to a woman half his age and criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers; English Colonial America[1]
Great BritainEdit
- Robert Blair, The Grave[2] a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement
- Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph[2]
- James Bramston, The Crooked Six-pence, published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac Reed in his Repository 1777; a parody of John Philips' The Splendid Shilling 1705, and that poem's text is included in this publication[2]
- William Collins, Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford"[2]
- Thomas Cooke, An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury[2]
- Philip Doddridge, The Principles of the Christian Religion[2]
- Robert Dodsley, Pain and Patience[2]
- Philip Francis, translator, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, very popular translation, published this year in London (originally published in 1742 in Dublin; two more volumes, The Satires of Horace and The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace published 1746; see also A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace 1747)); Irish writer published in England[2]
- Aaron Hill, The Fanciad: An heroic poem, published anonymously[2]
- David Mallet, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
- Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad
- William Whitehead, An Essay on Ridicule[2]
Other languagesEdit
- André Philippe de Prétot, Le Recueil du Parnasse, ou, nouveau choix de pieces fugitives en prose & en vers, Paris: Chez Briasson, France
BirthsEdit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 14 – Hannah Cowley (died 1809), English dramatist and poet
- June 20 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (died 1825), English poet, essayist, and children's author
- November 18 – Johannes Ewald (died 1781), Danish national dramatist and poet[3]
- December 10 – Johann Christoph Schwab (died 1821), German
- December 23 – Ippolit Bogdanovich (died 1803), Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka
- Also
- Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (died 1800), Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
DeathsEdit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 6 – Andrew Michael Ramsay (born 1686), Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France
- October 5 – Henry Carey (born 1687), English poet, dramatist and song-writer
- Also
- James Bramston (born 1694), English satirist and poet
- Josiah Relph
- Richard Savage (born 1697), English poet
See alsoEdit
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
NotesEdit
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
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