# 1743 in literature

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 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)