1733 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1733.Events
Prose
- George Berkeley – The Theory of Vision
- James Bramston – The Man of Taste
- John Durant Breval – Morality in Vice
- 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
- 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
- David Mallet – Of Verbal Criticism
- Thomas Newcomb – The Woman of Taste
- Alexander Pope
- *"Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" "Society"
- *Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst
- *The Impertinent
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Letters Moral and Entertaining
- Jonathan Swift
- *On Poetry, a Rhapsody
- *The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
- Voltaire – Letters Concerning the English Nation
- Isaac Watts – Philosophical Essays
Drama
- John Durant Breval – The Rape of Helen
- Charles Coffey – The Boarding School
- Henry Fielding – The Miser
- John Gay – Achilles
- Eliza Haywood – The Opera of Operas
- 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 – The Works of Shakespeare
Poetry
- Anonymous – Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- John Banks – Poems on Several Occasions
- Samuel Bowden – Poetical Essays
- Mary Chandler – A Description of Bath
- Thomas Fitzgerald – Poems
- Matthew Green – 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
- March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian
- March 18 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German critic and bookseller
- August 22 – Jean-François Ducis, French dramatist
- September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet
- Unknown date – Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist
Deaths
- January 21 – Bernard de Mandeville, Dutch-born satirist and philosopher writing in English
- March 12 – Michel Le Quien, French theologian and historian
- March 13 – Mademoiselle Aïssé, Circassian-born French letter-writer
- May 10 – Jacob August Franckenstein, German lexicographer
- June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar
- August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist writer
- Unknown date – John Dunton, English writer and bookseller
