1743 in literature

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

Events

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)

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

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

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)
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- Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)
- Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
- Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)

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

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