1833 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836

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.
  • September 15 – 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 October 20; 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[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), anonymously published translation from the Ancient Greek of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
  • Edward Bickersteth, Christian Psalmody[1]
  • Caroline Bowles (later Caroline Anne Southey), Tales of the Factories[1]
  • Robert Browning, Pauline, a fragment of a confession, the author's first published poem, published anonymously, sells no copies[2] (first reprinted in Poetical Works 1868 with minor revisions and an "apologetic preface")[1]
  • 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.[3][4]
  • Hartley Coleridge, Poems[1]
  • Allan Cunningham, The Maid of Elvar[1]
  • Ebenezer Elliott, The Splendid Village; Corn Law Rhymes, and Other Poems[1]
  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Hymns on the Works of Nature[1]
  • John Stuart Mill, Thoughts on Poetry and its Variants (criticism)
  • Robert Montgomery, Woman: The Angel of Life[1]
  • 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[1]
  • 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"[5]
  • 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)[5]
  • Maria James, "Ode on the Fourth of July 1833"
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, translator, Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique[6]
  • 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[5]

Other[]

  • , "Barbados" by a pro-slavery planter in Barbados[7]
  • Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Les Fleurs, France[8]
  • 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[9]
  • France Prešeren, A Wreath of Sonnets (Slovene: 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[]

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

  • January 23 – Lewis Morris (died 1907), Anglo-Welsh poet
  • May 5 – Richard Watson Dixon (died 1900), English poet and clergyman
  • May 29 – George Gordon McCrae (died 1927), Australian
  • August 24 – Narmadashankar Dave, also known as "Narmad" (died 1886), Indian, Gujarati-language poet[10]
  • October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman (died 1908), American poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist
  • October 19 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Azores-born Australian "national poet", jockey and politician
  • December 27 – Larin Paraske (died 1904), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer

Deaths[]

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

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

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  2. ^ Browning, Robert (2009). Roberts, Adam; Karlin, Daniel (eds.). The Major Works. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955469-0.
  3. ^ "Agnes Bulmer". Primary Sources. 18th Century Religion, Literature, and Culture. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Bulmer, Agnes" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  5. ^ a b c Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  6. ^ Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2
  7. ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
  8. ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
  9. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  10. ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
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