1743 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

• Robert Blair, The Grave^[1] a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement
• Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph^[1]
• James Bramston, The Crooked Six-pence, published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac Reed in his Repository 1777; a parody of John Philips' The Splendid Shilling 1705, and that poem's text is included in this publication^[1]
• William Collins, Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford"^[1]
• Thomas Cooke, An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury^[1]
• Philip Doddridge, The Principles of the Christian Religion^[1]
• Robert Dodsley, Pain and Patience^[1]
• Philip Francis, translator, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, very popular translation, published this year in London (originally published in 1742 in Dublin; two more volumes, The Satires of Horace and The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace published 1746; see also A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace 1747)); Irish writer published in England^[1]
• Joseph Green (poet), "The Disappointed Cooper", mocking an old man's marriage to a woman half his age and criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers; English Colonial America^[2]
• Aaron Hill, The Fanciad: An heroic poem, published anonymously^[1]
• David Mallet, Poems on Several Occasions^[1]
• Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad
• William Whitehead, An Essay on Ridicule^[1]

Other

• André Philippe de Prétot, Le Recueil du Parnasse, ou, nouveau choix de pieces fugitives en prose & en vers, Paris: Chez Briasson, France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 14 – Hannah Cowley (died 1809), English dramatist and poet
• June 20 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (died 1825), English poet, essayist, and children's author
• November 18 – Johannes Ewald (died 1781), Danish national dramatist and poet^[3]
• December 10 – Johann Christoph Schwab (died 1821), German
• December 23 – Ippolit Bogdanovich (died 1803), Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka
• Also:
  • Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (died 1800), Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 6 – Andrew Michael Ramsay (born 1686), Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France
• June 26 – Joseph Relph (born 1712), Cumberland poet
• August 1 – Richard Savage (born 1697), English poet
• October 5 – Henry Carey (born 1687), English poet, dramatist and song-writer

• date unknown
  • James Bramston (born 1694), English satirist and poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. 
2. ↑ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
3. ↑ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328