1703 in literature

Events from the year 1703 in literature.

Events

July 29–31 – Daniel Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November.
unknown date – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London.

Joseph Addison – A Letter from Italy
Abel Boyer – The History of the Reign of Queen Anne
Gilbert Burnet – A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses
Edmund Calamy – A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity
Jeremy Collier – Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House
William Dampier – A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699
Daniel Defoe
*A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
*A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator
*A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon
*Hymn to the Pillory
*More Reformation: A satyr upon himself
*The Shortest Way to Peace and Union
*A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-man
John Dunton – The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues
Thomas Hearne – Reliquiae Bodleianae
George Hickes – Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus
Benjamin Hoadly – The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England
Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan – New Voyages to North America
Bernard de Mandeville – Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine
Leonty Magnitsky – Arithmetic
Henry Maundrell – A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697
Ned Ward – The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb
Benjamin Whichcote – ''Moral and Religious Aphorisms''