This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1743.
Events March – Robert Dodsley advertises in the London Evening Post his plans to publish rare 16th and 17th-century plays so as to avoid them being lost. July 5 – A benefit performance for the elderly acting couple Henry and Elizabeth Wetherilt is held at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. August – Shortly after the death of Richard Savage, Samuel Johnson announces his intention to publish a biography of Savage. unknown dates 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 Fiction Comte de Caylus – les Contes orientaux 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 Eliza Haywood – Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman Aaron Hill – The Fanciad Marguerite de Lubert – La Princesse Camion (Princess Camion) Benjamin Martin – A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and AstronomyFirst edition. Retrieved 12 September 2017. Diego de Torres Villarroel – Vida
Drama Thomas Cooke – Love the Cause and Cure of Grief 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 (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) Richard Pococke – A Description of the East & Some Other Countries William Stukeley – Abury: A temple of the British Druids Diego de Torres Villarroel – Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villarroel 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) August 17 – 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, songwriter and dramatist, suicide (born 1687) October 15 – John Ozell, English translator (year of birth not known) December 22 – James Bramston, English satirical poet (born c. 1694)
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