1833 in poetry

Events

• June - Rev. John Henry Newman writes "The Pillar of Cloud" on a boat in the Strait of Bonifacio.
• September 15 - English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson, dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses", Tithon and "The Two Voices" and begins "Morte d'Arthur" and "Tiresias". In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.

  Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Elizabeth Barrett, anonymously published translation from the Ancient Greek of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
• Edward Bickersteth, Christian Psalmody
• Caroline Bowles, Tales of the Factories
• Robert Browning, Pauline, a fragment of a confession, the author's first published poem, published anonymously, sells no copies
• Agnes Bulmer's Messiah's Kingdom was published; an epic poem running to 14,000 lines and considered the longest poem ever written by a woman.
• Hartley Coleridge, Poems
• Allan Cunningham, The Maid of Elvar
• Ebenezer Elliott, The Splendid Village; Corn Law Rhymes, and Other Poems
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Hymns on the Works of Nature
• John Stuart Mill, Thoughts on Poetry and its Variants
• Robert Montgomery, Woman: The Angel of Life
• Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, the final revised edition, edited by J. G. Lockhart and illustrated by J. M. W. Turner; in 12 volumes, published starting in May of this year, with Volume I, and ending in April 1834, with Volume XII
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834, including The Zenana

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Maria Gowen Brooks, Zophiel, highly emotional verse, influenced by her connections with the English Lake poets; Charles Lamb asserted she could not have been the author, "as if there could have been a woman capable of anything so grand"
• Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems and Prose Writings, a very well received book, including many of his better-known essays and poems, including "The Buccaneer"
• Maria James, "Ode on the Fourth of July 1833"
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, translator, Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique
• Penina Moise, Fancy's Sketch Book, called the first poetry book published by a Jewish American in the United States; including humorous and satirical poems on love, poverty and death as well as comments on the suffering of Jews abroad, who are encouraged to immigrate to the United States

  Other

• M. J. Chapman, "Barbados" by a pro-slavery planter in Barbados
• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Les Fleurs, France
• Wilhelm Hey, Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder
• Frederik Paludan-Muller, Dandserinden, inspired by Lord Byron's poetry; an ironic poem in ottava rima; Denmark
• France Prešeren, A Wreath of Sonnets
• Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman, written, first published 1837
• Pietro Zorutti, Plovisine, Friulian

  Births

• January 23 - Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet
• May 5 - Richard Watson Dixon, English poet and clergyman
• May 29 - George Gordon McCrae, Australian
• August 24 - Narmadashankar Dave, also known as "Narmad", Indian, Gujarati-language poet
• October 8 - Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist
• October 19 - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Azores-born Australian "national poet", jockey and politician
• December 27 - Larin Paraske, Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer

  Deaths

• February 4 - John O'Keefe, Irish poet, playwright and actor
• April 14 - Joseph-Isidore Bédard, Canadian poet, lawyer and politician
• September 7 - Hannah More, English poet, playwright, religious writer and philanthropist
• September 15 - Arthur Hallam, English poet in whose memory Alfred, Lord Tennyson later writes In Memoriam A.H.H.
• September 26 - Robert Anderson, English Cumbrian dialect poet
• October 10 - Thomas Atkinson, Scottish poet, bookseller and politician, dies at sea
• December 30 - William Sotheby, English poet and translator
• Date not known - Bankidas Asiya, Rajasthani poet and scholar