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1733 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1733.

Events
February 20 – The first epistle of Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Man is published anonymously. • March 29 – The second epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. • October – Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer. • Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni burns his first play, the tragedy Amalasunta, due to its negative reception in Milan. ==New books==
New books
ProseGeorge BerkeleyThe Theory of VisionJames BramstonThe 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 BrowneThings Supernatural and Divine Conceived by Analogy with things Natural and HumanGeorge CheyneThe English MaladyThomas-Simon GueulletteLes 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 HerveyAn Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of DivinityGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonAdvice to a LadySamuel MaddenMemoirs of the Twentieth Century (roman à clef about George II) • David MalletOf Verbal Criticism (to Pope) • Thomas NewcombThe 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 ImpertinentElizabeth Singer RoweLetters Moral and EntertainingJonathan SwiftOn 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 SwiftVoltaireLetters Concerning the English NationIsaac WattsPhilosophical Essays Drama • William Bond – The Tuscan TreatyJohn Durant BrevalThe Rape of Helen (printed 1737) • Charles CoffeyThe Boarding School (performed and published) • Henry FieldingThe Miser (from Molière) • John Gay (died 1732) – Achilles (opera) • Eliza HaywoodThe Opera of Operas (adaptation of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera) • William HavardScanderbeg • John Kelly – Timon in Love • Edward Phillips • The Livery RakeThe Mock LawyerThe Stage MutineersAntónio José da SilvaVida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho PançaLewis Theobald (ed.) – The Works of ShakespeareLewis TheobaldThe Fatal Secret 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 BanksPoems on Several OccasionsSamuel BowdenPoetical EssaysMary ChandlerA Description of Bath • Thomas Fitzgerald – PoemsMatthew Green (as Peter Drake) – The GrottoJames HammondAn Elegy to a Young LadyAlexander PopeThe First Satire of the Second Book of HoraceSee also 1733 in poetry ==Births==
Births
January 12Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and dramatist (died 1793) • March 13Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (died 1804) • March 18Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German critic and bookseller (died 1811) • August 22Jean-François Ducis, French dramatist (died 1816) • September 5Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet (died 1813) • Unknown dateRobert Lloyd, English poet and satirist (died 1764) ==Deaths==
Deaths
January 21Bernard de Mandeville, Dutch-born satirist and philosopher writing in English (born 1670) • March 12Michel Le Quien, French theologian and historian (born 1661) • March 13Mademoiselle Aïssé, Circassian-born French letter-writer (born c. 1694) • May 10Jacob August Franckenstein, German lexicographer (born 1689) • June 23Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (born 1672) • August 16Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (born 1657) • Unknown dateJohn Dunton, English writer and bookseller (born 1659) ==References==
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