1743 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.

[edit] New books

• Henry Fielding - The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great

[edit] New drama

• Charles Simon Favart - Le Coq du village
• Voltaire - Mérope

[edit] Poetry

• Robert Blair - The Grave
• Alexander Pope - The New Dunciad

[edit] Births

• January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, philosopher (died 1819)
• March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist (died 1818)
• June 20 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)
• date unknown
  • Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)
  • Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
  • Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)

[edit] Deaths

• April 4
  • Robert Ainsworth, lexicographer (born 1660)
  • Daniel Neal, historian (born 1678)
• May 6 - Andrew Michael Ramsay, biographer (born 1686)
• October 5 - Henry Carey, poet and dramatist
• October 15 - John Ozell, translator