1773 in literature

none thumb | right | Front cover of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book written by a black woman to be published in the Americas. (Published 1773) 1773 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1773. Events January – Christoph Martin Wieland begins publishing the influential literary monthly Der Teutsche Merkur in Weimar.Scherer Wilhelm A History of German Literature New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1886 https://books.google.com/books?id=hMUrAAAAMAAJ 2 46 9780838311721 Benjamin W. Redekop Enlightenment and Community https://books.google.com/books?id=w_UCYiik1qkC&pg=PA53 2000 McGill-Queen's Press Montreal 978-0-7735-1026-5 53– March 15 – Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/goldsmith002.html She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night theatrehistory.com 2007-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20070814142622/http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/goldsmith002.html 14 August 2007 April 13 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries singer and actress Elizabeth Ann Linley.http://www.theatrehistory.com/irish/sheridan001.html theatrehistory.com Richard Brinsley Sheridan 2013-02-03 May 1 – Richard Wroughton takes the role of Prince Henry in Henry II, King of England by John Bancroft at Covent Garden. May 4 – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.Marian Broderick Wild Irish Women Dublin O'Brien Press 2002 978-0-86278-780-6 65–7 August 6 – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/scotland/5436463/Western-Isles-High-road-and-low-in-Dr-Johnsons-Scotland.html Nigel Tisdall Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles The Daily Telegraph London 2009-06-03 2013-02-03 where on August 14 he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 1785 September 1 – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley (described as "Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England"), the first work of an African American female writer to be published in English, including "On Being Brought from Africa to America", is published in Aldgate, London by Archibald Bell, bookseller, because publishers in Boston, Massachusetts, had declined to publish it and Wheatley and her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley, had come to London where Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the Earl of Dartmouth helped with the publication.Vincent Carretta Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage https://books.google.com/books?id=upPLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA45-IA22 2014 University of Georgia Press Athens 978-0-8203-4664-9 45 unknown dates Cláudio Manuel da Costa writes his epic poem Vila Rica, relating the history of the homonymous Brazilian city, modern-day Ouro Preto; it is not published until 1839. The last five cantos of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's epic poem Der Messias are published in Hamburg.Publications of the English Goethe Society https://books.google.com/books?id=-dAnAAAAYAAJ 1991 Society 40 Compilation of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries begins in Qing Dynasty China. The Wenjin Chamber is built at the Chengde Mountain Resort to accommodate a copy. New books Fiction Elizabeth Bonhote – The Fashionable Friend Calixto Bustamante Carlos (Concolorcorvo) – Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes José Cadalso – Cartas marruecas (Moroccan letters) Mrs Fogerty – The Fatal Connexion Richard Graves – The Spiritual Quixote Henry Mackenzie – The Man of the World Johann Karl Wezel – Lebensgeschichte Tobias Knauts, des Weisen, sonst der Stammler genannt: aus Familiennachrichten gesammelt (Life story of Tobias Knaut the Wise, Otherwise Called the Stammerer; publication begins) Drama Charles Dibdin – The Deserter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Götz von Berlichingen Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer Thomas Hawkins – The Origin of the English Drama John Home – Alonzo William Kenrick – The Duellist Henry Mackenzie – The Prince of Tunis Arthur Murphy – Alzuma Mercy Otis Warren – The Adulateur George Steevens (editor) – The Plays of William Shakespeare Francis Godolphin Waldron – The Maid of Kent Poetry 1773 in poetry Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Poems John Bicknell and Thomas Day – The Dying Negro José Cadalso – Ocios de mi juventud 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, Lord Monboddo – Of the Origin and Progress of Language Charles Burney – The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces José Cadalso – Apuntaciones autobiográficas Hester Chapone – Letters on the Improvement of the Mind David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes – Remarks on the History of Scotland Antoine Court de Gébelin – Le Monde primitif (publication begins) John Hawkesworth – An Account of the Voyages for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere Thomas Hawkins – The Origin of the English Drama Tomás de Iriarte – Los literatos en Cuaresm` Samuel Johnson – A Dictionary of the English Language, revised edition Thomas Leland – The History of Ireland, from the invasion of Henry II William Melmoth – Cato Louis-Sébastien Mercier – L'Essai sur l'art dramatique John Scott – Observations on the Present State of the Parochial and Vagrant Poor Births April 9 – Étienne Aignan, French translator, librettist and dramatist (died 1824 in literature) May 19 – Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Swiss scholar of literature, history and economics (died 1842) August 21 – Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese poet (died 1853) October 23 – Francis Jeffrey, Scottish jurist and critic (died 1850) December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish musician and writer (died 1867)https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=16725 Mariana (Marianne) Maximiliana Christiana Carolina Lovisa Ehrenström, f. Pollet sok.riksarkivet.se 10 August 2020 unknown date – Margaret Prior, American humanitarian, missionary, social reformer, memoirist (died 1842) Deaths January 21 – Alexis Piron, French dramatist and epigrammatist (born 1689) April 20 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French book illustrator (born 1699) April 25 – Daniele Farlati, ecclesiastical historian (born 1690) May 15 – Alban Butler, hagiographer (born 1710) July 5 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (born 1719) August 3 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish political writer, poet and dramatist (born 1700) August 20 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (born 1729) August 28 – John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (born 1703) September 18 – John Cunningham, Irish poet, dramatist and actor (born 1729) November 16 – John Hawkesworth, English poet and editor (born c. 1715) unknown date – Paisius of Hilendar, Bulgarian historian and clergyman, early figure in the Bulgarian National Revival (born 1722) References 30em External links 1773 Books at Goodreads