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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 (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November.^[1]
unknown date – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London.^[2]

New books[]

Prose[]

Joseph Addison – A Letter from Italy^[3]
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 (satire on Defoe)
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 (Арифметика)
Henry Maundrell – A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697
Ned Ward – The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb (against Republicanism)
Benjamin Whichcote – Moral and Religious Aphorisms

Drama[]

Thomas Baker – Tunbridge Walks
Charles Boyle – As You Find It
Marie-Anne Barbier – Cornélie, mère des Gracques
William Burnaby – Love Betrayed
Susanna Centlivre – Love's Contrivance
Chikamatsu Monzaemon – The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (曾根崎心中, Sonezaki Shinjū)
Thomas d'Urfey – The Old Mode and the New
Richard Estcourt – The Fair Example
Charles Gildon – The Patriot (adapted by Nathaniel Lee)
John Oldmixon – The Governour of Cyprus
Mary Pix – The Different Widows
Nicholas Rowe – The Fair Penitent
Richard Steele – The Lying Lover
William Walker – Marry, or Do Worse
Richard Wilkinson – Vice Reclaimed

Poetry[]

Lady Mary Chudleigh – Poems on Several Occasions
William Congreve
- A Hymn to Harmony
- The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas
Sarah Fyge Egerton – Poems on Several Occasions
Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo (Two centuries of Croatia in mourning)
See also 1703 in poetry

Births[]

March 23 – Cajsa Warg, Swedish cookbook author (died 1769)
May 18 – İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Turkish Sufi philosopher (died 1780)
June 28 – John Wesley, English writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)^[4]
October 5 – Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (died 1758)
November 26 – Theophilus Cibber, English playwright (died 1758)
unknown dates
- Henry Brooke, Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1783)^[5]
- Charles Clémencet, French historian (died 1778)^[6]
- Thomas Cooke, English writer and translator (died 1756)^[7]
- John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (died 1773)^[8]
- Ando Shoeki (安藤昌益), Japanese philosopher (died 1762)
- Gilbert West, English poet and translator (died 1756)^[9]

Deaths[]

January 11 – Johann Georg Graevius, German critic (born 1632)^[10]
February 17 – Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, French translator (born 1626)
March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher (born 1635)^[11]
March 5 – Gabrielle Suchon, French moral philosopher (born 1631)
April 20 – Lancelot Addison, English writer and cleric (born 1632)
May 8 – Vincent Alsop, English religious writer and wit (born c. 1630)
May 16 – Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales (born 1628)^[12]
May 26 – Samuel Pepys, English diarist (born 1633)^[13]
August 21 – Thomas Tryon, English self-help author (born 1634)^[14]
September 29 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1631)
unknown date – Samuel Johnson, English pamphleteer (born 1649)

References[]

^ Thomas Wright (1894). The Life of Daniel Defoe. Cassell. p. 77.
^ From 1703 to 1712. 1809. p. 1.
^ Brian McCrea (1990). Addison and Steele are Dead: The English Department, Its Canon, and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism. Associated University Presse. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-87413-366-0.
^ John Wesley (1833). Life of the Rev. John Wesley. R. T. S. p. 125.
^ Gregory A. Schirmer (1998). Out of what Began: A History of Irish Poetry in English. Cornell University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0-8014-3498-X.
^ Samuel Maunder (1868). The Biographical Treasury a Dictionary of Universal Biography... Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 204.
^ Sherbo, Arthur. "Cooke, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 166–168. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6180. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Ernest Alfred Gray (1952). Portrait of a Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter. Hale. p. 29.
^ "West, Gilbert" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ William Nicolson (1985). The London Diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle 1702-1718. OUP Oxford. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-19-822404-4.
^ Richard Nichols (1999). Robert Hooke and the Royal Society. Book Guild. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-85776-465-9.
^ Charles Perrault; Neil Philip (1993). The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 125. ISBN 0-395-57002-6.
^ "Samuel Pepys | English diarist and naval administrator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ William Hone (1832). The Year Book of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men & Manners. William Tegg and Company, 85, Queen Street, Cheapside. p. 979.

[1] Thomas Wright (1894). The Life of Daniel Defoe. Cassell. p. 77.

[2] From 1703 to 1712. 1809. p. 1.

[3] Brian McCrea (1990). Addison and Steele are Dead: The English Department, Its Canon, and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism. Associated University Presse. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-87413-366-0.

[4] John Wesley (1833). Life of the Rev. John Wesley. R. T. S. p. 125.

[5] Gregory A. Schirmer (1998). Out of what Began: A History of Irish Poetry in English. Cornell University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0-8014-3498-X.

[6] Samuel Maunder (1868). The Biographical Treasury a Dictionary of Universal Biography... Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 204.

[7] Sherbo, Arthur. "Cooke, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 166–168. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6180. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[8] Ernest Alfred Gray (1952). Portrait of a Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter. Hale. p. 29.

[9] "West, Gilbert" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[10] William Nicolson (1985). The London Diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle 1702-1718. OUP Oxford. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-19-822404-4.

[11] Richard Nichols (1999). Robert Hooke and the Royal Society. Book Guild. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-85776-465-9.

[12] Charles Perrault; Neil Philip (1993). The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 125. ISBN 0-395-57002-6.

[13] "Samuel Pepys | English diarist and naval administrator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[14] William Hone (1832). The Year Book of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men & Manners. William Tegg and Company, 85, Queen Street, Cheapside. p. 979.

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