- 1773 in literature
"See also:"
1772 in literature , other events of 1773,1774 in literature ,list of years in literature .Events
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.
*Samuel Johnson andJames Boswell tour the Western Isles of ScotlandNew books
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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
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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
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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
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld andJohn 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
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April 9 -Étienne Aignan , translator, librettist and dramatist (died1824 )
*August 21 -Jens Christian Djurhuus , Faroese poet (died1853 )
*October 1 -Peter Kaiser , statesman and historian (died1864 )
*October 23 -Francis Jeffrey , jurist and critic (died1850 )Deaths
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January 21 -Alexis Piron , dramatist and epigrammatist (born1689 )
*April 20 -Hubert-François Gravelot , book illustrator (born1699 )
*April 25 -Daniele Farlati , ecclesiastical historian (born1690 )
*May 15 -Alban Butler , hagiographer (born1710 )
*July 5 -Francisco José Freire , historian and philologist (born1719 )
*August 20 -Enrique Florez , historian (born1701 )
*November 16 - John Hawkesworth, poet and editor (born c. 1715)
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