1643 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643.

Events

June 16 – Parliament issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press — the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
August 1 – First of Milton's divorce tracts published, anonymously and unlicensed.
Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
Cardinal Mazarin opens the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris to scholars.
The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem — the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.

Sir Thomas Browne – Religio Medici (the 1st "authorized" edition, after 2 unauthorized in the previous year)
Sir Kenelm Digby – Observations Upon Religio Medici
Philip Hunton – A Treatise of Monarchie
John Milton – Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Roger Williams – A Key into the Language of America
Gabriel de la Vega – La feliz campaña y los dichosos progresos que tuvieron las armas de D. Felipe IV en estos Países Bajos el año de 1642
Pedro Agerre – Gero

February 9 – Sidney Godolphin, English poet (born 1610)
April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (born 1583)
April 12 – Nicolaus Hunnius, German theologian (born 1585)
April 20 – Christoph Demantius, German poet and composer (born 1567)
November 29 – William Cartwright, English poet, dramatist and cleric (born 1611)
Unknown dates
- Abraham Azulai, Moroccan-born Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
- Thomas Master, English poet, translator and cleric (born 1603)
- Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet (born 1570)
Probable year of death
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (born c. 1590)
- Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (born 1610)

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