1733 in literature

none 1733 literature poetry July 2020 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.James McLaverty Pope, Print, and Meaning https://books.google.com/books?id=z56vvN3S5McC&pg=PA108 2001 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-818497-3 108 March 29 – The second epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. May – Voltaire begins his long-term relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet. May 8 – The third epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. Autumn – Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge.Ian Campbell Ross Laurence Sterne: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=Jm5bAAAAMAAJ 2001 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-212235-3 36 October – Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=xE2a06VfoogC&pg=PA29 1984 SIU Press 978-0-8093-1130-9 29 Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni burns his first play, the tragedy Amalasunta, due to its negative reception in Milan.Gambaccini Piero Mountebanks and Medicasters 2003 McFarland & Co. North Carolina 9780786416066 164 New books 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 George Cheyne – The English Malady Thomas-Simon Gueullette – 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 – 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" 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 – 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 – Letters Concerning the English Nation Isaac Watts – Philosophical Essays Drama William Bond – The Tuscan Treaty 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 (died 1732) – Achilles (opera) Eliza Haywood – The Opera of Operas (adaptation of Fielding's Tom Thumb, with a pro-Walpole "reconciliation" scene) (opera) William Havard – Scanderbeg 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 Lewis Theobald – The 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 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)Lloyd, Robert 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)Berry, Helen M. (2004). "Dunton, John (1659–1732)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online ed., Jan 2008, accessed 7 Sept 2008 References