1743 in literature

1743 in literature

The year 1743 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.

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)

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"

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)

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 Stukely - "Abury: A temple of the British Druids"
* William Whitehead - "An Essay on Ridicule"

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)

Deaths

*April 4
**Robert Ainsworth, lexicographer (born 1660)
**Daniel Neal, historian (born 1678)
*May 6 - Andrew Michael Ramsay, biographer (born 1686)
*October 5 - Henry Carey, poet, composer, and dramatist
*October 15 - John Ozell, translator
* Richard Savage, poet


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