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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1742. 1742 (MDCCXLII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

literary events and publications of 1732. April – The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine. December 7 – The original...

literary events and publications of 1742. February – Henry Fielding's picaresque novel Joseph Andrews appears in London as The History of the Adventures...

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"graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the "sublime" and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The...

of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on...

will take place in Croatia, Denmark and Norway. January 19 – The proposed ban on video sharing service TikTok is set to take effect in the United States...

published this year in London (originally published in 1742 in Dublin; two more volumes, The Satires of Horace and The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace published...

In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works...

publications of 1741. January 15 – The revival in the London theatre of Shakespeare plays featuring actresses in travesti roles continues at the Theatre Royal...

literary events and publications of 1743. March – Robert Dodsley advertises in the London Evening Post his plans to publish rare 16th and 17th-century plays...

Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. author, and sold. Donna Landry; Professor Donna Landry (1990). The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain...

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Events from the year 1742 in Great Britain. Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig) (until 11 February); Spencer Compton, 1st Earl...

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by Eliza Haywood in England, the first periodical written for women by a woman. April 14 – The Physico-Historical Society is formed in Dublin for the preservation...

earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. The poem, The...

reputations would survive. Eventually, Gray remembered some lines of poetry that he composed in 1742 following the death of West, a poet he knew. Using that previous...

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the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Anonymous, A Rap at the Rhapsody (a response to Jonathan Swift's On Poetry 1733) Jean...

Wessel (1742–1785). Two major events precipitated a major resurgence in Norwegian literature. In 1811, a Norwegian university was established in Christiania...

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He died on 17 July 1742, at an age of 66. He was buried in the Church of Our Lady of Assumption, Bolawatta. His tomb was opened in 1852, by Fr. Florentine...

to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French poetry). Lucy Terry writes the first known poem by an...

it." In his manuscript Pope says, "It was first printed in folio in ——. Again in folio the same year, and in octavo the next." It was included in the quarto...

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marrying in 1728. His most important poem, La Religion, in which he was careful to avoid further accusations of Jansenism, was published in 1742. He eventually...