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1733 in literature

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This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1733.

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Events

  • Early – The first three epistles of Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Man are published anonymously.
  • May – Voltaire begins his long-term relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet.
  • Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.
  • Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America.
  • Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.

    • Prose

  • George Berkeley – The Theory of Vision
  • James Bramston – The Man of Taste (answer to Pope from 1732)
  • John Durant Breval as "Joseph Gay" – Morality in Vice (part of Curll's continuing war with John Gay)
  • Peter Browne – Things Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and Human
  • Richard Graves – The Spiritual Quixote
  • John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey – An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity
  • George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – Advice to a Lady
  • Samuel Madden – Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (roman à clef about George II)
  • David Mallet – Of Verbal Criticism (to Pope)
  • Thomas Newcomb – The Woman of Taste (reaction to Pope's Epistle of 1732)
  • Alexander Pope
  • "Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (3) "Society" (continuation of Essay on Man; the first two "epistles" were published in 1732 & the fourth in 1744)
  • Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst (aka the Epistle to Bathurst)
  • The Impertinent
  • Elizabeth Rowe – Letters Moral and Entertaining
  • Jonathan Swift
  • On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contained explicit attacks on George II, as well as many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)
  • The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
  • Voltaire – Letters Concerning the English Nation
  • Isaac Watts – Philosophical Essays
  • Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar – Orador christiano

    • Drama

  • John Durant Breval – The Rape of Helen (printed 1737)
  • Charles Coffey – The Boarding School (performed and published)
  • Henry Fielding – The Miser (from Molière)
  • John Gay – Achilles (opera) (posthumous)
  • Eliza Haywood – The Opera of Operas (adapt. of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera)
  • John Kelly – Timon in Love
  • Edward Phillips
  • The Livery Rake
  • The Mock Lawyer
  • The Stage Mutineers
  • António José da Silva – Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança
  • Lewis Theobald (ed.) – The Works of Shakespeare

    • Poetry

  • Anonymous – Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (attrib. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to Pope)
  • John Banks – Poems on Several Occasions
  • Samuel Bowden – Poetical Essays
  • Mary Chandler – A Description of Bath
  • Thomas Fitzgerald – Poems
  • Matthew Green (as Peter Drake) – The Grotto
  • James Hammond – An Elegy to a Young Lady
  • Alexander Pope –The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
  • See also 1733 in poetry

    • Births

  • January 12 – Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793)
  • March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 1804)
  • March 18 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German critic and bookseller (died 1811)
  • August 22 – Jean-François Ducis, French dramatist (died 1816)
  • September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813)
  • Unknown date – Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist (died 1764)

    • Deaths

  • January 21 – Bernard de Mandeville, Dutch-born satirist and philosopher writing in English (born 1670)
  • March 12 – Michel Le Quien, French theologian and historian (born 1661)
  • March 13 – Mademoiselle Aïssé, Circassian-born French letter-writer (born c. 1694)
  • May 10 – Jacob August Franckenstein, German lexicographer (born 1689)
  • June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (born 1672)
  • August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (born 1657)
  • Unknown date – John Dunton, English writer and bookseller (born 1659)

    • References

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