1741 in poetry
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Events
- About this time Thomas Seaton established the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge University for religious poetry
Works published
Great Britain
- 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
Other
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 25 â Daniel Schiebeler (died 1771) German writer and poet
- April 11 â Johann Heinrich Merck (died 1791), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet
- November 15 â Johann Kaspar Lavater (died 1801), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 17 â Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)
