1741 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1741 in poetry

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Events

About this time Thomas Seaton established the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge University for religious poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle^[1]
Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way^[1]
Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translation from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum^[1]
Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines [. . .] Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American^[2]
Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously^[1]
William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules^[1]
Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy^[1]
John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739)^[1]
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:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ 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

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