1743 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1743.Events
Fiction
- Comte de Caylus – les Contes orientaux
- William Rufus Chetwood – The Twins
- 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
- Benjamin Martin – A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and Astronomy
- 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 – The Works of Shakespear
Poetry
- Robert Blair – The Grave
- Samuel Boyse – Albion's Triumph
- James Bramston – The Crooked Six-pence
- William Collins – Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer
- Philip Francis – The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace
- David Mallet – Poems on Several Occasions
- Alexander Pope – The New Dunciad
Non-fiction
- Henry Baker – The Microscope Made Easy
- Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – Remarks on the History of England
- John Brown – Honour
- Colley Cibber
- *The Egotist; or, Colley Upon Cibber
- *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
- Philip Doddridge – The Principles of the Christian Religion
- Enrique Flórez – Clave historial con que se abre la puerta a la historia eclesiástica y política
- Eliza Haywood – A Present for a Servant-Maid
- 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
- February 14 – Jane Bowdler, English poet and essayist
- March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist writing in German
- March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet
- April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and president
- July 14 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet
- July 30 – Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist
Uncertain date
- Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic
Deaths
- April 4
- *Robert Ainsworth, English lexicographer
- *Daniel Neal, English historian
- April 29 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer and thinker
- May 6 – Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish biographer
- August 1 – Richard Savage, English poet
- October 5 – Henry Carey, English poet, composer, and dramatist
- October 15 – John Ozell, English translator
- December 22 – James Bramston, English satirical poet
