1742 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February 17 - Dositej Obradović (died 1811), Serbian author, philosopher, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia
• July 1 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (died 1799), German writer, poet, mathematician and the first German professor of experimental physics
• October 6 – Johan Herman Wessel (died 1785), Norwegian poet
• December 12 – Anna Seward, called "the Swan of Lichfield", (died 1809), English poet
• December 25 – Charlotte von Stein (died 1827), German member of the court at Weimar, poet and close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, on whom she was a strong influence, and Friedrich Schiller

• Also:
  • year uncertain – Mary Alcock (died 1798), English poet, essayist and philanthropist
  • Peter Wilhelm Hensler (died 1779), German
  • Anne Hunter (died 1821), Scots poet and songwriter who wrote the lyrics to many of Haydn’s songs
  • Thomas Penrose (died 1779), English poet