1743 in poetry

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United Kingdom

 * 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 (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
 * 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

Other

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

Births
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 * 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
 * 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

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