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, 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]
  • Aquila Rose, Poems on Several Occasions, English Colonial America (posthumous)[3]
  • James Thomson, Alfred, including "Ode in Honour of Great Britain," that is, "Rule Britannia"

Other

Births

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

Deaths

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

See also

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. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. 3.0 3.1 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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