1773 in literature
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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.[1][2]
- April 13 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries singer and actress Elizabeth Ann Linley.[4]
- 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.[5]
- August 6 – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland,[6] where on August 14 he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.[7]
- Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the Earl of Dartmouth helped with the publication.[8]
- unknown dates
- 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.[9]
- Compilation of the Wenjin Chamber is built at the Chengde Mountain Resortto 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
- 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)
- Francis Jeffrey, Scottish jurist and critic (died 1850)
- December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish musician and writer (died 1867)[10]
- 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)
- 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
- ISBN 9780838311721.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-1026-5.
- ^ "She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night". theatrehistory.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- ^ "Richard Brinsley Sheridan". theatrehistory.com. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ISBN 978-0-86278-780-6.
- ^ Tisdall, Nigel (2009-06-03). "Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ^ Boswell, James (1785). The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
- ISBN 978-0-8203-4664-9.
- ^ Publications of the English Goethe Society. Society. 1991. p. 40.
- ^ "Mariana (Marianne) Maximiliana Christiana Carolina Lovisa Ehrenström, f. Pollet". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 10 August 2020.