1743 in literature
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The year 1743 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.
[edit] New books
- 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
- Philip Francis - The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace
- Aaron Hill - The Fanciad
- William Shakespeare (ed. Thomas Hamner) - The Works of Shakespear (plays only)
[edit] New drama
- William Collins - Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer (in re Hanmer's "deluxe" edition of the works of William Shakespeare)
- Charles Simon Favart - Le Coq du village
- Henry Fielding - The Wedding-Day
- John Gay - The Distress'd Wife
- Voltaire - Mérope
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Blair - The Grave
- Samuel Boyse - Albion's Triumph
- James Bramston - The Crooked Six-pence (attrib.)
- David Mallet - Poems on Several Occasions
- Alexander Pope - The New Dunciad (revised version)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Bolingbroke (Henry St. John) - 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
- Philip Doddridge - The Principles of the Christian Religion
- Enrique Florez - 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
[edit] Births
- January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, philosopher (died 1819)
- March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist (died 1818)
- April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and President
- June 20 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)
- date unknown
- Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)
- Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
- Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)
[edit] Deaths
- April 4
- Robert Ainsworth, lexicographer (born 1660)
- Daniel Neal, historian (born 1678)
- May 6 - Andrew Michael Ramsay, biographer (born 1686)
- August 1 - Richard Savage, poet
- October 5 - Henry Carey, poet, composer, and dramatist
- October 15 - John Ozell, translator
