Overview of the events of 1739 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
- Samuel Boyse, Deity
- Moses Browne, Poems on Various Subjects
- Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour: An epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish poet, published in the United Kingdom:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Walpole, attributed to Nugent
- An Ode on Mr. Pulteney, published anonymously
- An Ode to His Royal Highness on His Birthday, published anonymously
- Odes and Epistles, published anonymously
- Laetitia Pilkington, The Statues; or, The Trial of Constancy, published anonymously
- Elizabeth Rowe, Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse, including "The History of Joseph", English, Colonial America, posthumously published
- Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, Written by Himself, revised and expanded version of The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift 1731
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems (see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)
- Paul Whitehead, Manners: A Satire
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 24 – Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (died 1791), German poet, organist, composer and journalist
- Joseph Friedrich Engelschall (died 1797), German
- Twm o'r Nant, also known as Thomas Edwards, (died 1810), Welsh language dramatist and poet
- Edward Thompson
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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