1703 in literature

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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]

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

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

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)