1733 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1733.
Events
- February 20 â The first epistle of Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Man is published anonymously.[1]
- March 29 â The second epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published.[1]
- May â Voltaire begins his long-term relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet.
- May 8 â The third epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published.[1]
- Autumn â Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.[2]
- October â Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.[3]
- Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni burns his first play, the tragedy Amalasunta, due to its negative reception in Milan.[4]
New books
Prose
- George Berkeley â The Theory of Vision
- James Bramston â The Man of Taste (answer to Pope from 1732)
- John Durant Breval (as Joseph Gay) â Morality in Vice (part of Curll's continuing war with John Gay)
- Peter Browne â Things Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and Human
- George Cheyne â The English Malady
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette â Les Mille et une Heures, contes péruviens (Peruvian Tales: Related in One Thousand and One Hours, by One of the Select Virgins of Cusco)
- John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey â An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton â Advice to a Lady
- Samuel Madden â Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (roman à clef about George II)
- David Mallet â Of Verbal Criticism (to Pope)
- Thomas Newcomb â 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" published in 1732, the fourth in 1744)
- Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst (also as Epistle to Bathurst)
- The Impertinent
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe â Letters Moral and Entertaining
- Jonathan Swift
- On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contains explicit attacks on George II and many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)
- The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
- Voltaire â Letters Concerning the English Nation
- Isaac Watts â Philosophical Essays
Drama
- William Bond â The Tuscan Treaty
- John Durant Breval â The Rape of Helen (printed 1737)
- Charles Coffey â The Boarding School (performed and published)
- Henry Fielding â The Miser (from Molière)
- John Gay (died 1732) â Achilles (opera)
- Eliza Haywood â The Opera of Operas (adaptation of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera)
- William Havard â Scanderbeg
- John Kelly â Timon in Love
- Edward Phillips
- The Livery Rake
- The Mock Lawyer
- The Stage Mutineers
- António José da Silva â Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança
- Lewis Theobald (ed.) â The Works of Shakespeare
- Lewis Theobald â The Fatal Secret
Poetry
- Anonymous â 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 â Poems on Several Occasions
- Samuel Bowden â Poetical Essays
- Mary Chandler â A Description of Bath
- Thomas Fitzgerald â Poems
- Matthew Green (as Peter Drake) â The Grotto
- James Hammond â An Elegy to a Young Lady
- Alexander Pope âThe First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- See also 1733 in poetry
Births
- January 12 â Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793)
- March 13 â Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 1804)
- March 18 â Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German critic and bookseller (died 1811)
- August 22 â Jean-François Ducis, French dramatist (died 1816)
- September 5 â Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813)
- Unknown date â Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist (died 1764)[5]
Deaths
- January 21 â Bernard de Mandeville, Dutch-born satirist and philosopher writing in English (born 1670)
- March 12 â Michel Le Quien, French theologian and historian (born 1661)
- March 13 â Mademoiselle Aïssé, Circassian-born French letter-writer (born c. 1694)
- May 10 â Jacob August Franckenstein, German lexicographer (born 1689)
- June 23 â Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (born 1672)
- August 16 â Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (born 1657)
- Unknown date â John Dunton, English writer and bookseller (born 1659)[6]
