1773 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.
- Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tour the Western Isles of Scotland
[edit] New books
- Elizabeth Bonhote - The Fashionable Friend
- Richard Graves - The Spiritual Quixote
- The History of Agathon (anonymous)
- Henry Mackenzie - The Man of the World
- Reason Triumphant Over Fancy (anonymous)
- George Stevens (ed.) - The Plays of William Shakespeare
[edit] New drama
- Charles Dibdin - The Deserter
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Götz von Berlichingen
- Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
- John Home - Alonzo
- William Kenrick - The Duellist
- Henry Mackenzie - The Prince of Tunis
- Arthur Murphy - Alzuma
- Mercy Otis Warren - The Adulateur
[edit] Poetry
- Anna Laetitia Barbault - Poems
- Thomas Day - The Dying Negro
- 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
[edit] Non-fiction
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin - Miscellaneous Pieces
- Patrick Brydone - A Tour Through Sicily and Malta
- James Burnett, 1st Lord Monboddo - Of the Origina nad Progress of Lnaguage
- Charles Burney - The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces
- Hester Chapone - Letters on the Improvmeent of the Mind
- David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes - Remarks on the History of Scotland
- John Hawkesworth - An Account of the Voyages for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
- Thomas Leland - The History of Ireland
- William Melmoth - Cato
- John Scott - Observations on the Present State of the Parochial and Vagrant Poor
[edit] Births
- April 9 - Étienne Aignan, translator, librettist and dramatist (died 1824)
- August 21 - Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese poet (died 1853)
- October 1 - Peter Kaiser, statesman and historian (died 1864)
- October 23 - Francis Jeffrey, jurist and critic (died 1850)
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Alexis Piron, dramatist and epigrammatist (born 1689)
- April 20 - Hubert-François Gravelot, book illustrator (born 1699)
- April 25 - Daniele Farlati, ecclesiastical historian (born 1690)
- May 15 - Alban Butler, hagiographer (born 1710)
- July 5 - Francisco José Freire, historian and philologist (born 1719)
- August 20 - Enrique Florez, historian (born 1701)
- November 16 - John Hawkesworth, poet and editor (born c. 1715)
