1740 in literature

1740 in literature

The year 1740 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*John Cleland returns to Britain from government service in India.
* Accession of Frederick the Great in Prussia.
* Beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession.

New books

* Johann Jakob Bodmer - "Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie"
* Colley Cibber - "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian" (begins a storm of protest)
* John Dyer - "The Ruins of Rome"
* Richard Glover - "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
* David Hume - "An Abstract of . . . A Treatise of Human Nature"
* William Law - "An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse"
** - "An Appeal to all that Doubt, or Disbelieve the Truths of the Gospel"
* William Oldys - "The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh"
* Christopher Pitt - "The Aeneid of Virgil"
* William Pulteney - "An Epistle from L--- to Lord C-------d" (supposedly from Thomas Coke to Lord Chesterfield)
* Samuel Richardson - "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"
* Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke - "The Idea of a Patriot King" (published after the intervention or interference of Alexander Pope)
* William Stukeley - "Stonehenge: A temple restor'd to the British Druids"
* Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve -"La jeune américaine, et les contes marins"
* William Warburton - "A Vindication of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man"
* George Whitefield - "A Short Account of God's Dealings with the Reverend George Whitefield"

Newly published drama

* George Lillo - "Britannia and Batavia"
** - "Elmerick"
* James Thomson and David Mallet - "Alfred"

Poetry

* Sarah Dixon - "Poems on Several Occasions"

Births

*June 2 - Marquis de Sade (died 1814)
*June 6 - Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist (died 1814)
*September 2 - Johann Georg Jacobi, poet (died 1814)
*September 12 - Johann Heinrich Jung (Heinrich Stilling), novelist (died 1817)
*October 29 - James Boswell (died 1795)
*November 4 - Augustus Montague Toplady, poet, theologian and hymn-writer (died 1778)
*"date unknown"
**Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, philologist (died 1782)
**Juan Andrés, historian (died 1817)
**Jean Louis Delolme, constitutional writer (died 1806)
**Charlotte Brooke

Deaths

*January - John Adams, poet (born 1704)
*April 23 - Thomas Tickell, poet (born 1685)
*May 15 - Ephraim Chambers, encyclopaedist (born about 1680)
*June 1 - Samuel Werenfels, theologian (born 1657)
*October 5 - Johann Philipp Baratier, scholar (born 1721)
*"date unknown"
**Johann Georg Abicht, theologian (born 1672)
**Daniel Waterland, theologian (born 1683)
** Jane Bereton, poet


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