1741 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle
- Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way
- Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translation from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum
- Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously
- William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules
- Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
- William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse
Other
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland
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