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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...

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...

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...

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...

for religious poetry Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way...

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

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...

Nymph Going to Bed Anonymous – A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry) Joseph Addison (died 1719) – A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translations of Homer. Pope is often quoted in The Oxford...

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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...

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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...

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

Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that belongs mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times...

Entertaining Jonathan Swift On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contains explicit attacks on George II and many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)...