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