1743 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

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

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

• Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic
• Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet
• Gabriel Derzhaven, Russian lyric poet
• March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist
• June 20 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet