• About this time Thomas Seaton established the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge University for religious poetry

Great Britain edit

• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle^[1]
• Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way^[1]
• Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translation from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum^[1]
• Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines [. . .] Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American^[2]
• Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously^[1]
• William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules^[1]
• Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy^[1]
• John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739)^[1]
• William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse

Other edit

• Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 25 – Daniel Schiebeler (died 1771) German writer and poet
• April 11 – Johann Heinrich Merck (died 1791), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet
• November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (died 1801), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)

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