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 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]
  • , 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:

Deaths[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Web page titled "The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections/Dixon, Sarah", McMaster University Library website, retrieved February 4, 2010
  2. ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. ^ a b 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
  4. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 340
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