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{{Refimprove|date=March 2018}}{{Year nav topic5|1723|literature|poetry}}This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1723. Events- Voltaire contracts smallpox.[1]
- A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex in England.
- The book collection of Samuel Pepys (died 1703), including his Diary, is transferred to the Pepys Library at his alma mater, Magdalene College, Cambridge, in accordance with his will.[2]
New booksFiction- Penelope Aubin – The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs[3]
- Jane Barker – A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Aventures merveilleuses du mandarin Fum-Hoam, contes chinois (The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales))
- Eliza Haywood – Idalia: Or, the Unfortunate Mistress. A Novel. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood[4]
- Anton Josef Kirchweger – Aurea Catena Homeri
- Margrethe Lasson – Den beklædte Sandhed (first novel in Danish)
- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham
Drama- Susanna Centlivre – The Artifice
- Elijah Fenton – Marianne
- Eliza Haywood – A Wife to be Let
- Ludvig Holberg – Erasmus Montanus[5]
- Hildebrand Jacob – The Fatal Constancy
- Charles Johnson – Love in a Forest (adapted from As You Like It)
- Pierre de Marivaux – La Double Inconstance
- Ambrose Philips – Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester: a tragedy
Poetry{{main article|1723 in poetry}}- Sir Richard Blackmore – Alfred: an epick poemhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Blackmore
- David Mallet – William and Margaret
- William Meston – Knight of the Kirk
- Ambrose Philips – Ode on the Death of William, Earl of Cowper
- Matthew Prior
- Down-Hall
- The Turtle and the Sparrow
- Allan Ramsay – The Tea-Table Miscellany, Vol. 1
- Voltaire – La Henriade
- Ned Ward – Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.
Non-fiction- James Anderson – The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
- Henry Baker – An Invocation of Health: a poem
- Offspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (posthumously) – Collected Works
- Pietro Giannone – Storia civile del regno di Napoli (History of the Kingdom of Naples)
- Bernard de Mandeville – A Search into the Nature of Society
- Thomas Dempster (posthumous) – De Etruria regali libri VII (printed in sans-serif)
- Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard – Cato's Letters (essays)
- John Nott – The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary or, the Accomplish'd Housewives Companion
Births- January 21 (or June 21) – Baron d'Holbach, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1789)
- February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh-born philosopher (died 1791)
- February 24 – John Burgoyne, English soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
- June 5 (baptized) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (died 1790)[6]
- June 20 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
- September 30 – William Hutton, English local historian and poet (died 1815)
- November 8 – John Byron, English vice-admiral and memoirist (died 1786)
- November 30 – William Livingston, American political writer and politician (died 1790)
- December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1807)
Deaths- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English dramatist (born 1653)
- March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French Protestant poet and historian (born 1650)
- March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
- May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born 1656)
- June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, physician and preacher (born 1644)
- July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (born 1640)
- August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian author (born 1673)
- September 23 – Jacques Basnage, French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher (born 1653)
- December 1 – Susanna Centlivre (Susanna Carroll), English dramatist (born c. 1667–70)
- December 17 – John Trenchard, English politician and writer (born 1662)
References1. ^{{cite book |last1=Glynn |first1=Ian |last2=Glynn |first2=Jenifer |title=The Life and Death of Smallpox |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521845427 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tL4W3YNMYLIC&pg=PA69 |language=en}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=History of the Pepys Building |url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/building |website=Magdalene College |accessdate=20 March 2018 |language=en}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=The life of Charlotta Du Pont |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2795097 |website=National Library of Australia |publisher=printed for A. Bettesworth |accessdate=20 March 2018 |date=1723}}
4. ^[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7028796-idalia-or-the-unfortunate-mistress Retrieved 19 February 2019.]
5. ^[https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/2620.html Extract. Retrieved 19 February 2019.]
6. ^{{cite web |title=Adam Smith (1723–1790) |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/smith_adam.shtml |website=BBC |accessdate=20 March 2018}}
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