1743 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1743.
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.
New books
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
- Benjamin Martin – A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and Astronomy[1]
- 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[2]
- Samuel Boyse – Albion's Triumph
- James Bramston (attributed) – 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
- Henry Baker – The Microscope Made Easy
- 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 Bengali 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 the 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)
- July 30 – Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (died 1804)
- 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
- ↑ First edition. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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