1742 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745
Years in literature:	1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745
Decades in poetry:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
Centuries in poetry:	17th century 18th century 19th century
Centuries:	17th century · 18th century · 19th century
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years:	1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

[edit] Events

• Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled. ("I shall be like that tree," he once said, "I shall die at the top.") To protect him from unscrupulous hangers on, who had begun to prey on him, Swift's closest companions had him declared of "unsound mind and memory."

[edit] Works published

• William Collins, Persian Eclogues
• Edward Young, "The Complaint, or Night Thoughts" (1742-45)

[edit] Births

• Mary Alcock (?)
• Anne Hunter (Scotland)
• Thomas Penrose
• Anna Seward

[edit] Deaths

• John Oldmixon
• William Somervile

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature