1833 in poetry

Events

• June – Rev. John Henry Newman writes "The Pillar of Cloud" (Lead, Kindly Light) on a boat in the Strait of Bonifacio.
• 15 September – English poet Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson (and fiancé of his sister Emily), dies suddenly of a brain haemorrhage in Vienna aged 22. This year in his memory Tennyson writes "Ulysses" (completed 20 October; published in Poems of 1842), Tithon (an early version of "Tithonus") and "The Two Voices" (originally entitled "Thoughts of a Suicide") and begins "Morte d'Arthur" (published 1842) and "Tiresias" (published 1885). In 1850 he will publish In Memoriam A.H.H.

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), anonymously published translation from the Ancient Greek of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
• Edward Bickersteth, Christian Psalmody
• Caroline Bowles (later Caroline Anne Southey), Tales of the Factories
• Robert Browning, Pauline, a fragment of a confession, the author's first published poem, published anonymously, sells no copies (first reprinted in Poetical Works 1868 with minor revisions and an "apologetic preface")
• 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 (criticism)
• Robert Montgomery, Woman: The Angel of Life
• Sir Walter Scott (died 1832), 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"

[[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" (see also the expanded edition 1850)
• 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 ("Fifty Fables for Children")
• Frederik Paludan-Muller, Dandserinden ("The Danseuse" or "Dancing Girl"), inspired by Lord Byron's poetry; an ironic poem in ottava rima; Denmark
• France Prešeren, A Wreath of Sonnets ()
• Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman (Russian, Медный всадник, literally "The Copper Horseman"), written, first published 1837
• Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Çorut), Plovisine, Friulian

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 23 January – Lewis Morris (died 1907), Anglo-Welsh poet
• 5 May – Richard Watson Dixon (died 1900), English poet and clergyman
• 29 May – George Gordon McCrae (died 1927), Australian
• 24 August – Narmadashankar Dave, also known as "Narmad" (died 1886), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
• 8 October – Edmund Clarence Stedman (died 1908), American poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist
• 19 October – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Azores-born Australian "national poet", jockey and politician
• 27 December – Larin Paraske (died 1904), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 4 February – John O'Keefe (born 1747), Irish poet, playwright and actor
• 14 April – Joseph-Isidore Bédard (born 1806), Canadian poet, lawyer and politician, dies in Paris (haemorrhage)
• 7 September – Hannah More (born 1745), English poet, playwright, religious writer and philanthropist
• 15 September – Arthur Hallam (born 1811), English poet in whose memory Alfred, Lord Tennyson later writes In Memoriam A.H.H., dies in Vienna (haemorrhage)
• 26 September – Robert Anderson (born 1770), English Cumbrian dialect poet
• 4 October – Maria Jane Jewsbury (Fletcher) (born 1800), English writer and poet, dies in India (cholera)
• 10 October – Thomas Atkinson (born 1801?), Scottish poet, bookseller and politician, dies at sea (consumption)
• 30 December – William Sotheby (born 1757), English poet and translator
• Date not known – Kaviraja Bankidas Ashiya (born 1771), Rajasthani poet and scholar

Notes

References

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