1833 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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.

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"

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 (Sonetni venec)
 * Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman (Russian, Медный всадник, literally "The Copper Horseman"), written, first published 1837
 * Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Çorut), Plovisine, Friulian

Births
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 * 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
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 * 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