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The year 1843 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Last of the Barons
- James Fenimore Cooper - Le Mouchoir; an Autobiographical Romance
- Charles Dickens
- Alexandre Dumas, père - Georges
- Catherine Gore - The Banker's Wife
- Léon Gozlan - Aristide Froissart
- Victor Hugo - Les Burgraves
- Søren Kierkegaard - Diary of a Seducer (a literary novel included in Either/Or)
- Frederick Marryat - Monsieur Violet
- Edgar Allan Poe - "The Gold-Bug" (short story)
- Eugène Sue - The Mysteries of Paris
- Robert Smith Surtees - Handley Cross
- Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - Perils of the Nation
New drama
- Eusebio Asquerino - Casada, vírgen y mártir
- Nikolai Gogol - The Gamblers
- W. T. Moncrieff - The Scamps of London
Poetry
- Thomas Hood - Song of the Shirt
- Richard Henry Horne - Orion
- Edgar Allan Poe - The Conqueror Worm
- Alfred Tennyson - Morte d'Arthur
Non-fiction
- Paul Rudolf von Bilguer - Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess)
- Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
- John Stuart Mill - A System of Logic
- William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Mexico
- Johannes de Silentio - Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven)
Births
- January 14 - Hans Forssell, historian (+ 1901)
- April 15 - Henry James, writer (+ 1916)
- May 3 - Edward Dowden, poet and critic (+ 1913)
- July 5 - Mandell Creighton, historian (+ 1901)
- December 21 - Thomas Bracken, poet (+ 1898)
- December 29 - Carmen Sylva (+ 1916)
Deaths
- January 11 - Francis Scott Key, poet
- March 21 - Robert Southey, poet
- May 19 - Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer
- May 28 - Noah Webster, lexicographer
- June 6 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
- July 9 - Karoline Pichler, novelist
- July 31 - William Thomas Lowndes, bibliographer
- August 10 - Jakob Friedrich Fries, philosopher
- October 21 - William Pinnock, publisher, bookseller and author
- December 11 - Casimir Delavigne, poet and dramatist
- date unknown - John Murray, publisher
Awards
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