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1743 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1743.

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Events

  • Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.
  • A legal deposit law requires a copy of every book printed in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to be deposited in the Magliabechiana library in Florence.

    • Prose

  • William Rufus Chetwood – The Twins (prose fiction)
  • Henry Fielding – The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great in Miscellanies, with A Journey from This World to the Next
  • Aaron Hill – The Fanciad
  • Diego de Torres Villarroel – Vida

    • Drama

  • Charles Simon Favart – Le Coq du village
  • Henry Fielding – The Wedding-Day
  • John Gay – The Distress'd Wife
  • Voltaire – Mérope
  • William Shakespeare (ed. Thomas Hanmer) – The Works of Shakespear

    • Poetry

  • Robert Blair – The Grave
  • Samuel Boyse – Albion's Triumph
  • James Bramston (attrib.) – The Crooked Six-pence
  • William Collins – Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer (related to Hanmer's edition of The Works of Shakespear)
  • Philip Francis – The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace
  • David Mallet – Poems on Several Occasions
  • Alexander Pope – The New Dunciad (revised version)

    • Non-fiction

  • Gómez Arias – Recetas morales, políticas y precisas para vivir en la Corte
  • Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – Remarks on the History of England (from The Craftsman)
  • John Brown – Honour
  • Colley Cibber
  • The Egotist; or, Colley Upon Cibber (many deprecations on Alexander Pope)
  • A Second Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
  • Thomas Cooke – An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury
  • Manuel da Assumpção – Vocabolario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez ("Vocabulary of the Bangali language and Portuguese")
  • Philip Doddridge – The Principles of the Christian Religion
  • Enrique Flórez – Clave historial con que se abre la puerta a la historia eclesiástica y política (Clavis Historiae)
  • Eliza Haywood – A Present for a Servant-Maid (conduct book for female servants, in light of Richardson's Pamela)
  • William Stukeley – Abury: A temple of the British Druids
  • William Whitehead – An Essay on Ridicule

    • Births

  • January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (died 1819)
  • February 14 – Jane Bowdler, English poet and essayist (died 1784)
  • March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist writing in German (died 1818)
  • March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
  • April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and president (died 1826
  • June 20 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)
  • July 14 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)
  • Unknown date – Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)

    • Deaths

  • April 4
  • Robert Ainsworth, English lexicographer (born 1660)
  • Daniel Neal, English historian (born 1678)
  • April 29 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer and thinker (born 1658)
  • May 6 – Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish biographer (born 1686)
  • August 1 – Richard Savage, English poet (born c. 1697)
  • October 5 – Henry Carey, English poet, composer, and dramatist (born 1687)
  • October 15 – John Ozell, English translator (date of birth not known)

    • References

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