1833 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

June - Rev. John Henry Newman writes "The Pillar of Cloud" on a boat in the Strait of Bonifacio.
15 September - 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.''

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, Messiah's Kingdom, epic poem running to 14,000 lines, 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"

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

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

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

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

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

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