1793 in literature

See also: 1792 in literature, other events of 1793, 1794 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Songs of Experience – William Blake
• The Old Manor House and The Emigrants – Charlotte Turner Smith
• Abällino, der grosse Bandit – Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke

Births

• April 4 – Casimir Delavigne, poet
• June 1 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymn-writer
• June 28 – Georg Friedrich Schömann, classicist
• July 12 – John Clare
• September 25 – Felicia Hemans
• December 15 – Henry Charles Carey, economist
• December 28 – Karl Friedrich Neumann

Deaths

• January 4 – Bengt Lidner, poet
• February 6 – Carlo Goldoni
• April 2 – Colin Macfarquhar, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica
• April 29 – John Michell, philosopher
• May 20 – Charles Bonnet, philosopher
• June 26 – Gilbert White
• November 3 – Olympe de Gouges, dramatist
• November 17 – Louis Pierre Manuel

Awards