1742 in literature
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The year 1742 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- December 2 - The Pennsylvania Journal first appears in print in the United States.
- The Stockholm Gazette begins publication.
- Pierre de Marivaux is elected to the Académie française.
[edit] New books
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Le Sopha, conte moral
- Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews
- Eliza Haywood - The Virtuous Villager (prose fiction)
- Charles Jervas (misprinted as "Jarvis") - English translation of Don Quixote
[edit] New drama
- Charlotte Charke - Tit for Tat
- Charles Jennens - Messiah (libretto and music for Handel's piece)
[edit] Poetry
- William Collins - Persian Eclogues
- Thomas Cooke - Original Poems
- James Hammond - Love Elegies
- James Merrick - The Destruction of Troy
- William Shenstone - The School-Mistress
- William Somervile - Field Sports
- Charles Hanbury Williams - The Country Girl: An ode
- Edward Young - Night Thoughts
[edit] Non-fiction
- Colley Cibber - A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (in re Pope's satirizing of Cibber)
- Philip Doddridge - Evidences of Christianity
- David Hume - Essays Moral and Political vol. ii
- Colin Maclaurin - Treatise on Fluxions
- John Oldmixon - Memoirs of the Press, Historical and Political
- Horace Walpole and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - The Lessons for the Day (satire on William Pulteney, Bolingbroke, and the "Patriot Whigs").
- William Warburton - A Critical and Philosophical Commentary on Mr. Pope's Essay on Man
- John Wesley
- The Character of a Methodist
- The Principles of a Methodist
- George Whitefield - Nine Sermons
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Isaac Reed, Shakespearean editor (died 1807)
- June 25 - Johann Schweighauser, German classical scholar (died 1830)
- September 14 - James Wilson, publisher (died 1798)
- October 6 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (died 1785)
[edit] Deaths
- March 23 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (born 1670)
- April 27 - Nicholas Amhurst, poet and political writer (born 1697)
- July 9 - John Oldmixon, English historian (born 1673)
- July 14 - Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (born 1662)
- July 19 - William Somervile, English poet (born 1675)
- November 24 - Andrew Bradford, American publisher (born 1686)
