title: 1703 in poetry
text: # 1703 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Works published
  
  * Lady Mary Chudleigh, Poems upon Several Occasions
  * William Congreve, A Hymn to Harmony
  * Daniel Defoe:
     * A true collection of the writings of the author of the True Born English-man
     * A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon, published anonymously, has been attributed to Defoe
     * More Reformation: A satyr upon himself
  * Sarah Fyge Egerton, Poems on Several Occasions, prefatory verses by Susanna Centlivre
  * Bernard Mandeville, Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine, published anonymously
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * March 5 (n. s.) – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (died 1768), Russian poet
  * June 28 (n.s.) – John Wesley (died 1791), English cleric and Christian theologian, founder of Methodism, psalmist and hymnist
  * October 2 – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼 (died 1775), Japanese poet of the Edo period and a prominent haiku poet (a woman)
  * Date unknown – Gilbert West (died 1756), English poet and translator
  * Approximate date
     * Samuel Boyse (died 1749), Irish poet
     * Henry Brooke (died 1783), Irish poet, novelist and dramatist
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * October 14 - Thomas Kingo (born 1634), Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer
  