1733 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1733. Events February 20 – The first epistle of Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Man is published anonymously. March 29 – The second epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. May – Voltaire begins his long-term relationship with Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet. May 8 – The third epistle of Pope's An Essay on Man is published. Autumn – Laurence Sterne enters Jesus College, Cambridge. October – Charles Macklin makes his debut at Drury Lane Theatre in The Recruiting Officer. New books Prose George Berkeley – The Theory of Vision James Bramston – The Man of Taste (answer to Pope from 1732) John Durant Breval (as Joseph Gay) – Morality in Vice (part of Curll's continuing war with John Gay) 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 (Peruvian Tales: Related in One Thousand and One Hours, by One of the Select Virgins of Cusco) 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 (roman à clef about George II) David Mallet – Of Verbal Criticism (to Pope) Thomas Newcomb – The Woman of Taste (reaction to Pope's Epistle of 1732) Alexander Pope "Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (3) "Society" (continuation of Essay on Man; the first two "epistles" published in 1732, the fourth in 1744) Of the Use of Riches: An Epistle to Lord Bathurst (also as Epistle to Bathurst) The Impertinent Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Letters Moral and Entertaining Jonathan Swift On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contains explicit attacks on George II and many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.) The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift Voltaire – Letters Concerning the English Nation Isaac Watts – Philosophical Essays