1739 in poetry

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Works published

 * Samuel Boyse, Deity
 * Moses Browne, Poems on Various Subjects
 * Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour: An epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck
 * Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish poet, published in the United Kingdom:
 * An Epistle to the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Walpole, attributed to Nugent
 * An Ode on Mr. Pulteney, published anonymously
 * An Ode to His Royal Highness on His Birthday, published anonymously
 * Odes and Epistles, published anonymously
 * Laetitia Pilkington, The Statues; or, The Trial of Constancy, published anonymously
 * Elizabeth Rowe, Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse, including "The History of Joseph", English, Colonial America, posthumously published
 * Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, Written by Himself, revised and expanded version of The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift 1731
 * John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems (see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)
 * Paul Whitehead, Manners: A Satire

Births
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 * March 24 – Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (died 1791), German poet, organist, composer and journalist
 * Joseph Friedrich Engelschall (died 1797), German
 * Twm o'r Nant, also known as Thomas Edwards, (died 1810), Welsh language dramatist and poet
 * Edward Thompson

Deaths
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 * Hildebrand Jacob