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1741 in literature

 
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1738 1739 1740 -1741- 1742 1743 1744
 1745 .  1746 .  1747 .  1748  . 1749  . 1750  . 1751 
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The year 1741 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

  • Anonymous - Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant
  • Robert Dodsley - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play)
  • David Garrick - The Lying Valet
  • John Kelly - The Levee
  • Voltaire - Mahomet (first performed)

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • Thomas Betterton - The History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Present
  • Thomas Francklin - Of the Nature of the Gods
  • David Hume - Essays Moral and Political
  • Jonathan Swift
    • Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope)
    • Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs
  • Isaac Watts - The Improvement of the Mind
  • Leonard Welsted - The Summum Bonum
  • George Whitefield - A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley

Births

Deaths


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