- 1742 in poetry
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year=1742
ya1=1743
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Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled. ("I shall be like that tree," he once said, "I shall die at the top.") To protect him from unscrupulous hangers on, who had begun to prey on him, Swift's closest companions had him declared of "unsound mind and memory."Works published
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William Collins , "Persian Eclogues"
*Edward Young , "The Complaint, or Night Thoughts" (1742-45)Births
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October 6 —Johan Herman Wessel , Norwegian poet (died 1785)
*Mary Alcock (?)
*Anne Hunter (Scotland)
*Thomas Penrose
*Anna Seward Deaths
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July 19 —William Somervile (born1675 ), English poetGrun, Bernard, "The Timetables of History", third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328]
*John Oldmixon ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature References
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