1833 in literature
Encyclopedia
The year 1833 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
- Alphonse de LamartineAlphonse de LamartineAlphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic.-Career:...
is elected a député of France. - Parley's Magazine, an American periodical for young readers, publishes its first issue.
New Books
- Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
- The Country Doctor
- Eugenie GrandetEugénie GrandetEugénie Grandet is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized...
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Godolphin
- Thomas CarlyleThomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...
- Sartor ResartusSartor ResartusThomas Carlyle's major work, Sartor Resartus , first published as a serial in 1833-34, purported to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh , author of a tome entitled "Clothes: their Origin and Influence" , but was actually a poioumenon... - Benjamin Disraeli - Alroy
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
- Outre-MerOutre-MerOutre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea is a prose collection which was the first major work by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The term "outre-mer" is French for "overseas".-Overview:... - Alfred de MussetAlfred de MussetAlfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
- GamianiGamianiGamiani, or Two Nights of Excess , is a French erotic novel first published in 1833. Its authorship is anonymous, but it is believed to have been written by Alfred de Musset and the lesbian eponymous heroine a portrait of his lover, George Sand... - Aleksandr PushkinAleksandr PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
- Eugene OneginEugene OneginEugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin.It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes . It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832... - George SandGeorge SandAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
- Lelia - Michael ScottMichael Scott (novelist)Michael Scott , British author, was born at Cowlairs, near Glasgow, the son of a Glasgow merchant.In 1806 he went to Jamaica, first managing some estates, and afterwards joining a business firm in Kingston...
-Tom Cringle's Log
New drama
- Juseph von Eichendorff - The Wooers
- Johann NestroyJohann NestroyJohann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath...
- Lumpaziva gabundus
Poetry
- Robert BrowningRobert BrowningRobert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...
- Pauline - Wilhelm Hey - Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Fifty Fables for Children)
Non-fiction
- Franz BoppFranz BoppFranz Bopp was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.-Biography:...
- Vergleichende Grammatik - Godfrey HigginsGodfrey HigginsGodfrey Higgins , was an archaeologist, Freemason and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, humanist, social reformer, and author of various now-esoteric and rare books...
- Anacalypsis - Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia
- Webster's RevisionWebster's RevisionNoah Webster's 1833 limited revision of the King James Bible focused mainly on replacing archaic words and making simple grammatical changes. For example: "why" instead of "wherefore", "its" instead of "his" when referring to nonliving things, "male child" instead of "manchild", etc. He also...
of the Bible
Births
- October 19 - Adam Lindsay GordonAdam Lindsay GordonAdam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.- Early life :Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad...
, "national poet" of Australia (d. 1870) - October 8 - Edmund Clarence StedmanEdmund Clarence StedmanEdmund Clarence Stedman , American poet, critic, and essayist was born at Hartford, Connecticut, United States.-Biography:...
, poet and critic (d. 1908) - October 21 - Alfred NobelAlfred NobelAlfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...
, creator of the Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(d. 1896) - November 9 - Émile GaboriauÉmile GaboriauÉmile Gaboriau , was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction.- Life :Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime...
, writer (d. 1873) - date unknown - Sir Lewis MorrisLewis Morris (1833-1907)Sir Lewis Morris was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Lewis Morris was born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, in south-west Wales to Lewis Edward William Morris and Sophia Hughes...
, Anglo-Welsh poet (d. 1907)
Deaths
- January 14 - Gottlob Ernst SchulzeGottlob Ernst SchulzeGottlob Ernst Schulze was born in Heldrungen . Schulze was a professor at Wittenberg, Helmstedt, and Göttingen...
, philosopher (b. 1761) - February 3 - Nikolay GnedichNikolay GnedichNikolay Ivanovich Gnedich was a Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers...
, poet and translator (b. 1784) - February 4 - John O'Keeffe, dramatist (b. 1747)
- March 7 - Rahel VarnhagenRahel VarnhagenRahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen née Levin later Robert was a German-Jewish writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess written by Hannah Arendt...
, salon hostess (b. 1771) - March 11 - Franz PassowFranz PassowFranz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow was a German classical scholar and lexicographer.He was born at Ludwigslust in Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
, lexicographer (b. 1786) - April 13 - Elisa von der ReckeElisa von der ReckeElisa von der Recke was a Baltic German writer and poet.-Family:Elisa von der Recke was born in Schönberg, Skaistkalne parish, Courland, the daughter of Reichsgraf Friedrich von Medem and his wife, Louise Dorothea von Korff. Her younger half-sister was Dorothea von Medem, for whom she carried out...
, poet (b. 1754) - May 10 - François AndrieuxFrançois AndrieuxFrançois Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux was a French man of letters and playwright.Born and educated at Strasbourg, Andrieux proceeded to Paris to study law. There he became a close friend of Collin d'Harleville...
, dramatist (b. 1759) - August 25 - Jean-Louis LayaJean-Louis LayaJean-Louis Laya was a French dramatist born in Paris. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Comédie française, was never represented. In 1789 he produced a plea for religious toleration in the form of a five-act...
, dramatist (b. 1761) - September 7 - Hannah MoreHannah MoreHannah More was an English religious writer, and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical...
, religious writer and philanthropist (b. 1745) - September 15 - Arthur HallamArthur HallamArthur Henry Hallam was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam A.H.H., by his best friend and fellow poet, Alfred Tennyson...
, poet (b. 1811) (brain haemorrhage)