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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.
  • 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 Astronomy
  • 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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