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 (died 1870)
• October 8 - Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic (died 1908)
• October 21 - Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
• November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, writer (died 1873)
• date unknown - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)

Deaths

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

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