title: 1703 in literature
text: # 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 (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November.
  * unknown date – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * 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 (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 (published)
  * 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)
  * 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)
     * Charles Clémencet, French historian (died 1778)
     * Thomas Cooke, English writer and translator (died 1756)
     * John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (died 1773)
     * Ando Shoeki (安藤 昌益), Japanese philosopher (died 1762)
     * Gilbert West, English poet and translator (died 1756)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 11 – Johann Georg Graevius, German critic (born 1632)
  * February 17 – Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, French translator (born 1626)
  * March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher (born 1635)
  * 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)
  * May 26 – Samuel Pepys, English diarist (born 1633)
  * August 21 – Thomas Tryon, English self-help author (born 1634)
  * September 29 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1631)
  * unknown date – Samuel Johnson, English pamphleteer (born 1649)
  