1773 in literature

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See also: 1772 in literature, other events of 1773, 1774 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.
• Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tour the Western Isles of Scotland

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

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

Poetry

• Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 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

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 Origin and Progress of Language
• 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

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)
• December 9 - Marianne Ehrenström, Musician and writer

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)