1743 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1743 in poetry

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Events

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]

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

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
Approximate date – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (died 1800), Irish noblewoman and poet, composer of the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

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 songwriter, suicide
December 22 – James Bramston (born 1694), English poet and satirist

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ 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
^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.

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