1773 in literature

1773 in literature

"See also:" 1772 in literature, other events of 1773, 1774 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

*Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.
*Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tour the Western Isles of Scotland

New books

* Elizabeth Bonhote - "The Fashionable Friend"
* Richard Graves - "The Spiritual Quixote"
*"The History of Agathon" (anonymous)
* Henry Mackenzie - "The Man of the World"
*"Reason Triumphant Over Fancy" (anonymous)
* George Stevens (ed.) - "The Plays of William Shakespeare"

New drama

* Charles Dibdin - "The Deserter"
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Götz von Berlichingen"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "She Stoops to Conquer"
* John Home - "Alonzo"
* William Kenrick - "The Duellist"
* Henry Mackenzie - "The Prince of Tunis"
* Arthur Murphy - "Alzuma"
* Mercy Otis Warren - "The Adulateur"

Poetry

* Anna Laetitia Barbauld - "Poems"
* Thomas Day - "The Dying Negro"
* Robert Fergusson
**"Poems"
**"Auld Reikie"
* Richard Graves - "The Love of Order"
* Edward Jerningham - "Faldoni and Teresa"
* George Keate - "The Monument in Arcadia"
* James Macpherson - "The Iliad"
* Hannah More - "A Search After Happiness"
* Thomas Scott - "Lyric Poems"
* Phillis Wheatley - "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
* John Wolcot - "Persian Love Elegies"

Non-fiction

* Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin - "Miscellaneous Pieces"
* Patrick Brydone - "A Tour Through Sicily and Malta"
* James Burnett, 1st Lord Monboddo - "Of the Origina nad Progress of Lnaguage"
* Charles Burney - "The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces"
* Hester Chapone - "Letters on the Improvmeent of the Mind"
* David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes - "Remarks on the History of Scotland"
* John Hawkesworth - "An Account of the Voyages for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere"
* Thomas Leland - "The History of Ireland"
* William Melmoth - "Cato"
* John Scott - "Observations on the Present State of the Parochial and Vagrant Poor"

Births

*April 9 - Étienne Aignan, translator, librettist and dramatist (died 1824)
*August 21 - Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese poet (died 1853)
*October 1 - Peter Kaiser, statesman and historian (died 1864)
*October 23 - Francis Jeffrey, jurist and critic (died 1850)

Deaths

*January 21 - Alexis Piron, dramatist and epigrammatist (born 1689)
*April 20 - Hubert-François Gravelot, book illustrator (born 1699)
*April 25 - Daniele Farlati, ecclesiastical historian (born 1690)
*May 15 - Alban Butler, hagiographer (born 1710)
*July 5 - Francisco José Freire, historian and philologist (born 1719)
*August 20 - Enrique Florez, historian (born 1701)
*November 16 - John Hawkesworth, poet and editor (born c. 1715)


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