1833 in literature

The year 1833 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Alphonse de Lamartine is elected a député of France.
 * Parley's Magazine, an American periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue.

New Books

 * Honoré de Balzac
 * The Country Doctor
 * Eugenie Grandet
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Godolphin
 * Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus
 * Benjamin Disraeli - Alroy
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Outre-Mer
 * Alfred de Musset - Gamiani
 * Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
 * George Sand - Lelia
 * Michael Scott -Tom Cringle's Log

New drama

 * Juseph von Eichendorff - The Wooers
 * Johann Nestroy - Lumpaziva gabundus

Poetry

 * Robert Browning - Pauline
 * Wilhelm Hey - Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Fifty Fables for Children)

Non-fiction

 * Franz Bopp - Vergleichende Grammatik
 * Godfrey Higgins - Anacalypsis
 * Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia
 * Webster's Revision of the Bible

Births

 * October 19 - Adam Lindsay Gordon, "national poet" of Australia (d. 1870)
 * October 8 - Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic (d. 1908)
 * October 21 - Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
 * November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, writer (d. 1873)
 * date unknown - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (d. 1907)

Deaths

 * January 14 - Gottlob Ernst Schulze, philosopher (b. 1761)
 * February 3 - Nikolay Gnedich, poet and translator (b. 1784)
 * February 4 - John O'Keeffe, dramatist (b. 1747)
 * March 7 - Rahel Varnhagen, salon hostess (b. 1771)
 * March 11 - Franz Passow, lexicographer (b. 1786)
 * April 13 - Elisa von der Recke, poet (b. 1754)
 * May 10 - François Andrieux, dramatist (b. 1759)
 * August 25 - Jean-Louis Laya, dramatist (b. 1761)
 * September 7 - Hannah More, religious writer and philanthropist (b. 1745)
 * September 15 - Arthur Hallam, poet (b. 1811) (brain haemorrhage)