1833 in poetry

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

Events

 * Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, dies suddenly of a stroke in Vienna. Tennyson will later write In Memoriam A.H.H. in 1850.
 * This year Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote "Ulysses" (published in 1842)

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", the author's first published poem(first reprinted in Poetical Works 1868 with minor revisions and an "apologetic preface")
 * 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, 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

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)
 * 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

==Other languages
 * 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
 * Aleksandr Pushkin, "The Bronze Horseman" (Russian, Медный всадник, literally "The Copper Horseman")

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * May 5 – Richard Watson Dixon, English poet and divine
 * May 29 – George Gordon McCrae (died 1927), Australian
 * August 24 – Narmadashankar Dave, also known as "Narmad" (died 1886), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
 * October 8 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, American
 * October 19 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian "national poet"
 * Also:
 * Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet

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
 * September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet in whose memory Alfred Lord Tennyson later wrote In Memoriam A.H.H.
 * Also:
 * William Sotheby (born 1757), English poet and translator