1743 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• First performance of Voltaire's Mérope
• Publication of poet Robert Blair's major work, "The Grave"

[edit] New books

• The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
• The Grave (poem) by Robert Blair

[edit] Births

• Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)
• Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
• Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)
• March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist (died 1818)
• June 20 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)

[edit] Deaths