1733 in poetry

Events

Works published

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• Anonymous, Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, "By a lady", has been attributed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• John Banks, Poems on Several Occasions
• Samuel Bowden, Poetical Essays on Several Occasions, Volume 1
• James Bramston, The Man of Taste, response to Alexander Pope's Epistle to Burlington 1731
• John Durant Breval, writing under the pen name "Joseph Gay", Morality in Vice: An heroi-comical poem, republished this year as The Lure of Venus
• Mary Chandler, A Description of Bath
• Thomas Fitzgerald, Poems on Several Occasions
• Matthew Green, writing under the pen name "Peter Drake", The Grotto
• James Hammond, An Elegy to a Young Lady, in the Manner of Ovid, published anonymously
• John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, published anonymously
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady, published anonymously
• David Mallet, Of Verbal Criticism: An epistle to Mr. Pope
• Mary Masters, Poems on Several Occasions
• Thomas Newcomb, The Woman of Taste, published anonymously, but "attribution to Newcomb is probable", according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
• Alexander Pope:
• * Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst, published this year, although the book states "1732"
• * The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, with parallel English and Latin texts
• * An Essay on Man, Epistles 1-3,
• * The Impertinent; or, A Visit to the Court, published anonymously
• Elizabeth Rowe, Letters Moral and Entertaining, in Prose and Verse
• Jonathan Swift:
• * The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift
• * On Poetry: A Rhapsody, published anonymously

  Other

• Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Ver-Vert, about a parrot at a convent who shocks listeners with his bad language ; France

  Births

• January 12 - Antoine-Marin Lemierre, French poet and playwright
• March 18 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer, publisher, critic, author of satirical novels, regional historian, and a key figure of the Enlightenment in Berlin
• September 5 - Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and editor
• Isaac Bickerstaffe, Irish poet and playwright
• Robert Lloyd, English poet and satirist

  Deaths

• Bernard Mandeville, English philosopher, political economist, poet and satirist
• John Morgan died 1733 or 1734, Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
• Richard Lewis, English Colonial American