1742 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745
Years in literature:	1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745
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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 References

[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

• October 6 — Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (died 1785)
• Mary Alcock (?)
• Anne Hunter (Scotland)
• Thomas Penrose
• Anna Seward

[edit] Deaths

• July 19 — William Somervile (born 1675), English poet^[1]
• John Oldmixon

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References

1. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328