1743 in poetry

This article covers 1743 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

Robert Blair, The Grave a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement
Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph
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
William Collins, Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford"
Thomas Cooke, An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury
Philip Doddridge, The Principles of the Christian Religion
Robert Dodsley, Pain and Patience
Philip Francis, translator, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, very popular translation, published this year in London ); Irish writer published in England
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
Aaron Hill, The Fanciad: An heroic poem, published anonymously
David Mallet, Poems on Several Occasions
Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad
William Whitehead, ''An Essay on Ridicule''

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

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May 6 - Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France
June 26 - Joseph Relph, Cumberland poet
August 1 - Richard Savage, English poet
October 5 - Henry Carey, English poet, dramatist and songwriter, suicide
December 22 - James Bramston, English poet and satirist