1740 in poetry
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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."
-- first stanza of James Thomson's "Rule, Britannia", written for the masque Alfred
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Great BritainEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Sarah Dixon, Several Occasions, Canterbury: J. Abree
- John DyerJohn DyerJohn Dyer was a painter and Welsh poet turned clergyman of the Church of England who maintained an interest in his Welsh ancestry...
, The Ruins of Rome - Richard Glover, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
- Christopher PittChristopher PittChristopher Pitt was a British poet and translator.His translations to English include Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry.Pitt was educated at Winchester College, leaving in 1719 to study at New College, Oxford...
, The Aeneid of Virgil (Books 1-4 first published 17361736 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-United Kingdom:* John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love, published anonymously...
; see also An Essay on Vergil's Aeneid 17281728 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , "An Elegy on [....
, Works of Virgil 17531753 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time...
) - Aquila Rose, Poems on Several Occasions, EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
Colonial America (posthumous) - James Thomson, Alfred, including "Ode in Honour of Great Britain," that is, "Rule Britannia"
Other
- Johann Jakob BodmerJohann Jakob BodmerJohann Jakob Bodmer was a Swiss-German author, academic, critic and poet.-Life:Born at Greifensee, near Zürich, and first studying theology and then trying a commercial career, he finally found his vocation in letters...
, 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 BellmanCarl Michael Bellmanwas a Swedish poet and composer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a very important influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature in general, to this day....
(died 17951795 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samuel Taylor Coleridge first meets William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy-United Kingdom:* William Blake:...
), SwedishSwedish literatureSwedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden.The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök Runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around 1100 AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages,...
poet - April 10 – Basílio da GamaBasílio da GamaJosé Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...
(died 17951795 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samuel Taylor Coleridge first meets William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy-United Kingdom:* William Blake:...
), Brazilian - August 15 – Matthias ClaudiusMatthias ClaudiusMatthias Claudius was a German poet, otherwise known by the penname of “Asmus”.-Life:Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena...
(died 18151815 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 2 — Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner...
), German - September 2 – Johann Georg JacobiJohann Georg JacobiJohann Georg Jacobi was a German poet.The elder brother of the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Georg was born at Pempelfort near Düsseldorf. He studied theology at Göttingen and jurisprudence at Helmstedt, and was appointed, in 1766, professor of philosophy in Halle. In this year he...
(died 18141814 in poetry* Augusta Gordon bore her half-brother Lord Byron's daughter* July 27 - Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane Clairmont, 16; the trio quickly moves on to Switzerland...
), German - November 4 – Augustus Montagu Toplady (died 17781778 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets* William Combe, The Auction...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
clergyman and hymn-writer; an opponent of John WesleyJohn WesleyJohn Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
; author of the hymn "Rock of Ages"
- Also:
- Charlotte BrookeCharlotte Brooke (writer)Charlotte Brooke, , born in Rantavan, County Cavan, Ireland, was the author of' Reliques of Irish Poetry,' and was one of twenty-two children Henry Brooke had, the author of 'GustavusVasa,' and she was the only one that survived. She was born in 1740, and from an early age was attracted to books....
(died 17931793 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Blake:** America: A prophecy, illuminated book with 18 relief-etched plates...
), Irish poet - Samuel HenleySamuel HenleySamuel Henley D.D. was an English clergyman, school teacher and college principal, antiquarian, and man of letters.-Life:Born in England, he began his career when he was recruited as a professor of moral philosophy for William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. He arrived in 1770...
(died 18151815 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 2 — Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner...
) EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
clergyman, school teacher, college principal, antiquarian, writer and poet - Thomas MossThomas Moss (minister)Thomas Moss was minister of Brierly Hill, and of Trentham, in Staffordshire. In 1769, he anonymously published a collection of miscellaneous poems, forming a thin quarto, which hehad printed at Wolverhampton...
(died 18081808 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Christopher Anstey, The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey* Mary Matilda Betham, Poems...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
clergyman and poet - Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen (died 18021802 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* On April 15, William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in 1804, first published in 1807...
), German
- Charlotte Brooke
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- April 23 – Thomas TickellThomas TickellThomas Tickell was a minor English poet and man of letters.-Life:The son of a clergyman, he was born at Bridekirk near Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was educated at St Bees School 1695-1701, and in 1701 entered the Queen's College, Oxford, taking his M.A. degree in 1709...
(born 16851685 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and man of letters - December 11 – Sidonia Hedwig ZäunemannSidonia Hedwig ZäunemannSidonia Hedwig Zäunemann , known as die Zäunemännin, was a German poet. Zäunemann was inspired by the example of Christiana Mariana von Ziegler. She became Poet Laureate of Göttingen at the age of twenty-four....
(born 17111711 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, published anonymously, The Nature of Man...
), German - date not known – John AdamsJohn Adams (poet)John Adams was an American poet.-Biography:Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was...
(born 17041704 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-- From William Shippen's, Faction Display'd, the work of a Tory poet on the powerful Whig publisher Jacob Tonson whose series of anthologies, known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies used the...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
Colonial American clergyman and poet - date not known – Jane BreretonJane BreretonJane Brereton was an English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine.-Biography:Jane was the daughter of Mr. Thomas Hughes, of Bryn Gruffydd near Mold, Flintshire by Anne Jones, his wife, and was born in 1685. Unusually for the time, Jane was educated, at least up to the age...
(born 16851685 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...
), English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's MagazineThe Gentleman's MagazineThe Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term "magazine" for a periodical... - date not known – Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja (born either 16701670 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Other:* Sir Richard Fanshawe, translated, Querer por solo querer: To love ony for love sake, translated from Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza...
or 16881688 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* After John Dryden refused to swear allegiance to the new government after James II of England was deposed, the writer was dismissed as poet laureate of England, to be replaced by his old enemy,...
), poet of Oriya LiteratureOriya literatureOriya is an official language of the state of Orissa, India. The region has been known at different stages of history as Kalinga, Udra, Utkala, or Koshala. The language is also spoken by minority populations of the neighboring states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. The...
and awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets" - date not known – Amalia Wilhelmina KönigsmarckAmalia Wilhelmina KönigsmarckAmalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck was a Swedish noble, known as a dilettante artist , amateur actor, and poet.Daughter of Conrad Christoff Königsmarck and Maria Christina Wrangel, sister of Philip Christoph Königsmarck, Aurora Königsmarck and Carl Johan Königsmarck, and paternal niece of Otto Wilhelm...
(born 16631663 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Herrick begins publishing his Poor Robin's Almanack-Works published:...
), Swedish poet
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry18th century in poetry-Decades and years:...
- 18th century in literature18th century in literatureSee also: 18th century in poetry, 17th century in literature, other events of the 18th century, 19th century in literature, list of years in literature.Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the 18th century....
- Augustan poetryAugustan poetryIn Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the...
- Scriblerus ClubScriblerus ClubThe Scriblerus Club was an informal group of friends that included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell. The group was founded in 1712 and lasted until the death of the founders, starting in 1732 and ending in 1745, with Pope and Swift being...