1740 in poetry
—first stanza of James Thomson's "Rule, Britannia", written for the masque Alfred
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- When Britain first, at Heaven's command
- Arose from out the azure main;
- This was the charter of the land,
- And guardian angels sang this strain:
- "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
- "Britons never will be slaves."
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
Great Britain
- Sarah Dixon, Poems on Several Occasions, Canterbury: J. Abree[1]
- John Dyer, The Ruins of Rome[2]
- Richard Glover, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber[2]
- Christopher Pitt, The Aeneid of Virgil (Books 1-4 first published 1736; see also An Essay on Vergil's Aeneid 1728, Works of Virgil 1753)[2]
- Aquila Rose, Poems on Several Occasions, English Colonial America (posthumous)[3]
- James Thomson, Alfred, including "Ode in Honour of Great Britain," that is, "Rule Britannia"
- Francis Tolson, Hermathenæ, Or Moral Emblems, and Ethnick Tales, with Explanatory Notes
Other
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 4 – Carl Michael Bellman (died 1795), Swedish poet[4]
- April 10 – Basílio da Gama (died 1795), Brazilian
- August 15 – Matthias Claudius (died 1815), German
- September 2 – Johann Georg Jacobi (died 1814), German
- November 4 – Augustus Montagu Toplady (died 1778), English clergyman and hymn-writer; an opponent of John Wesley; author of the hymn "Rock of Ages"
- Also:
- Charlotte Brooke (died 1793), Irish poet
- Samuel Henley (died 1815) English clergyman, school teacher, college principal, antiquarian, writer and poet
- Thomas Moss (died 1808), English clergyman and poet
- Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen (died 1802), German
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 23 – Thomas Tickell (born 1685), English poet and man of letters
- December 11 – Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (born 1711), German
- date not known – John Adams (born 1704), English Colonial American clergyman and poet[3]
- date not known – Jane Brereton (born 1685), English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine
- date not known – Upendra Bhanja (born either 1670 or 1688), poet of Oriya Literature and awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets"
- date not known – Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck (born 1663), Swedish poet
See also
Notes
- Web page titled "The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections/Dixon, Sarah", McMaster University Library website, retrieved February 4, 2010
- 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
- Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 340
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