1933 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

January - Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of New Verse in London.
January–March - New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic.
June - W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape".
May 9 - A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in Cambridge, asserting that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer ". He criticizes much of the poetry from the 17th and 18th centuries as deficient in this regard, and condemns Alexander Pope's poetry in particular while praising William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Cowper and William Blake.
Black Mountain College founded in the United States as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracts poets who become known as the Black Mountain School of poetry.
Objectivist Press founded.Beacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication.

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

Leo Kennedy, The Shrouding.
Wilson MacDonald, Paul Marchand and Other Poems. Guy Ritter illus., Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.
Frederick George Scott, Selected Poems.

India">Indian poetry">India, in English">Indian poetry in English">in English

Lotika Ghose, White Dawns of Awakening, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.
Shriman Narayan, The Fountain of Life, Bombay
Maneck B. Pithawalla, Links with the Past, London: Poetry League
Mulk Raj Anand, The Golden Breath: Studies in Five Poets of New India, examined Rabindranath Tagore, Mohammad Iqbal, Puran Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Harindranath Chattopadhyay, written in English, India; criticism

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, English poets first published in the United States
Lazarus Aaronson, Christ in the Synagogue
W. H. Auden, Poems: Second Edition
Roy Campbell, Flowering Reeds
Cecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic Mountain
John Drinkwater, Summer Harvest
Walter de la Mare, The Fleeting, and Other Poems
T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard published in November; lectures he delivers at the University of Virginia are published in 1934 as After Strange Gods
Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall
John Gawsworth, pen name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Poems 1930-1932
Robert Graves, Poems 1930-1933
A. E. Housman, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge
D. H. Lawrence, Last Poems
Herbert Read, The End of a War
Laura Riding, Poet: a Lying Word
Vita Sackville-West, Collected Poems
Siegfried Sassoon, The Road to Ruin
Stephen Spender, Poems
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* Collected Poems
* ''The Winding Stair and Other Poems''

United States">American poetry">United States

Léonie Adams, This Measure
Stephen Vincent Benét, with Rosemary Carr Benet, A Book of Americans
John Peale Bishop, Now with His Love
Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Ballads of Square-Toed Americans
Hart Crane, Collected Poems
E. E. Cummings, EIMI
Horace Gregory, No Retreat
Edgar A. Guest, Life's Highway
Robert Hillyer, Collected Verse
Robinson Jeffers, Give Your Heart to the Hawks
Archibald MacLeish:
* Frescos for Mr. Rockefeller's City
* Poems
Ogden Nash, Happy Days
Lizette Woodworth Reese, Pastures
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Talifer
Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory
George Oppen, Discrete Series, published by the Objectivist Press
Ezra Pound, editor, Active Anthology, London; American poet published in the United Kingdom
Charles Reznikoff, Jerusalem the Golden and In Memoriam: 1933 published by the Objectivist Press
William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems, Objectivist Press

''Twentieth Century Poetry, an Anthology''

These poets were chosen by Harold Monro for the 1933 edition:

Other in English

Kenneth Slessor, Australia:
* Darlinghurst Nights: and Morning Glories: Being 47 Strange Sights, Sydney
* Funny Farmyard: Nursery Rhymes and Painting Book, with drawings by Sydney Miller, Sydney: Frank Johnson
Allen Curnow, Valley of Decision, New Zealand
William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

Robert Desnos, Complainte de Fantomas, written for radio
Jean Follain, La Main chaude, the author's first book of poems
Pierre Jean Jouve, Sueurs de sang
Henri Michaux, Un Barbare en Asie
Marcelin Pleynet, French poet and art critic
Patrice de La Tour du Pin, La Quête de Joie
Raymond Queneau, Le Chiendent, a "novel-poem" which won the 1933 Prix des Deux-Magots

Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Anandra Chandra Barua:
* Parag, Assamese
* translator, Haphejar Sur, poems by the Persian poet Havij into Assamese
G. Sankara Kurup, Surykanti, Malayalam, including poems on mystic experiences and platonic love, written in a style strongly influenced by Rabindranath Tagore and Persian poets
Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri, Tarana-e-Fazil, KashmiriMahavira Prasad Dvivedi Abhinandran Granth, by several authors; an early Hindi example of festschrift honoring an influential editor and arbiter of taste and usage
Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Nallicaippulamai Mellryalarkal, largely based on literary sources, an essay on the women poets of the Sangam Age of Tamil literature
Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu, Penukonda Lakshmi, said to have been written in 1926 when the author was 12 years old; the poem describes Penukonda, Anantapur, a small town that was once capital of the Vijayanagar empire; Telugu
Shripada Shastri Hauskar, Sri Sikhaguru-caritamrta, Sanskrit poem on the Sikh gurus
Sundaram, writing in Gujarati:
* Bhagatni Kadvi Vani
* Kavyamangala
V. Venkatarajuly Reddiyar, Paranar, a study of Paranar's poems and their relationship to the Sangam Age; Tamil

Spanish language

Pedro Salinas, La voz a ti debida ; Spain
Emilio Vasquez, Altipampa, Peru
Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Las ínsulas extrañas, Peru

Urdu language

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Tullu, collection of poems of Zia Fatehabadi published by Saghar Nizami, Adabi Markaz, Meerut, India.

Other languages

Mascha Kaléko, Das Lyrische Stenogrammheft: Verse vom Alltag, Germany
Nis Petersen, En Drift Vers, including "Brændende Europa", Denmark
J. Slauerhoff, Soleares, Netherlands
A Flower Tree by Yi Sang, Korea
Georg Trakl, Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ; an Austrian native's work published in Germany

Awards and honors

Guggenheim Fellowship: E.E. Cummings
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: ''Conquistador''

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 3 - Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
January 7 - Soltan Abbas, Azerbaijani poet
January 16 - Ivan Chtcheglov, French political theorist, activist and poet
January 25 - Alden Nowlan,, Canadian poet
February 5 - B. S. Johnson, English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmaker
February 14 - James Simmons, Northern Ireland poet, literary critic and songwriter
February 23 - Donna J. Stone née von Schoenweiler, American poet and philanthropist, author of Wielder of Words
February 24 - Peter Scupham, English
February 27 - Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaican-born British poet and art critic
April 2 - Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter who was defiant against his country's communist regime; when censors prevented his works from being published officially in the country from 1966 to 1976, his popularity didn't wane, as Bulgarians clandestinely copied and read his poems
April 29 - Rod McKuen, American poet and songwriter
May 12 - Andrei Voznesensky, Russian
June 21 - Gerald William Barrax, African-American
July 18 - Kevin Ireland, New Zealand
August 1 or April 11 - Ko Un, born Ko Untae, South Korea
August 16 - Reiner Kunze, German
September 11 - Robert Fagles, American professor, poet and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek Literature
October 21 - Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelist
November 13 - Peter Härtling, German novelist and poet
December 23 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan and poet
December 26 - Joe Rosenblatt, Canada
Also - Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer

Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 21 - George Moore, Irish poet and novelist
January 29 - Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet
March 1 - Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet
April 16 - Henry van Dyke Jr., American poet, author, educator and clergyman
April 29 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
September 21 - Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢賢治, early Shōwa period Japanese poet and author of children's literature
November 4 - John Jay Chapman, American essayist, poet, author and lawyer
December 4 - Stefan George, German poet and translator