1740 in poetry

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List of years in poetry       (table)
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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Notes 6 See also

[edit] Events

[edit] Works published

• John Dyer, The Ruins of Rome
• James Thomson, Alfred, including "Ode in Honour of Great Britain," that is, "Rule Britannia"

[edit] Births

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

• August 15 – Matthias Claudius (died 1815), German
• September 2 – Johann Georg Jacobi (died 1814), German
• Carl Michael Bellman (died 1795), Swedish poet^[1]
• Samuel Henley
• Thomas Moss (?)
• Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen (died 1802), German
• Augustus Montagu Toplady

[edit] Deaths

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

• April 23 – Thomas Tickell (born 1685), English poet and man of letters
• Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (born 1714), German

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 340

[edit] See also

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

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