1741 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

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

Great Britain

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

Other

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

Births
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

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)