• Source: 1933 in poetry

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      Events



      January – Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of New Verse in London (1933–39).
      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 (founded in 1931).


      Works published in English




      = Canada

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


      = India, in English

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      Lotika Ghose, White Dawns of Awakening ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.
      Shriman Narayan, The Fountain of Life ( Poetry in English ), Bombay (second edition, Asia Publishing House, 1961)
      Maneck B. Pithawalla, Links with the Past ( Poetry in English ), 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

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      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

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      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

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      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 (R.W. Lowry), New Zealand
      William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom


      Works published in other languages




      = France

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      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 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, Kashmiri
      Mahavira 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 ("The Voice Owed to You"); Spain
      Emilio Vasquez, Altipampa, Peru
      Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Las ínsulas extrañas, Peru


      = Urdu language

      =
      Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Tullu (The Dawn), 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 ("A Drove of Verses"), including "Brændende Europa" ("Europe Aflame"), Denmark
      J. Slauerhoff, Soleares, Netherlands
      A Flower Tree by Yi Sang, Korea
      Georg Trakl, Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ("Song of The Departed"); 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 "[year] in poetry" article:

      January 3 – Anne Stevenson (died 2020), American-British poet
      January 16 – Ivan Chtcheglov (died 1998), French political theorist, activist and poet
      January 25 – Alden Nowlan, (died 1983), Canadian poet
      February 5 – B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson; died 1973), English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmaker
      February 14 – James Simmons (died 2001), Northern Ireland poet, literary critic and songwriter
      February 23 – Donna J. Stone née von Schoenweiler (died 1994), 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 (died 2008), 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 (died 2015), American poet and songwriter
      May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), Russian
      June 21 – Gerald William Barrax (died 2019), 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 (died 2008), 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 (died 2017), German novelist and poet
      December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan and poet
      December 26 – Joe Rosenblatt (died 2019), Canada
      Also – Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer


      Deaths


      Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

      January 21 – George Moore (born 1852), Irish poet and novelist
      January 29 – Sara Teasdale (born 1884), American lyric poet
      March 1 – Uładzimir Žyłka (born 1900), Belarusian poet
      April 16 – Henry van Dyke Jr. (born 1852), American poet, author, educator and clergyman
      April 29 – Constantine P. Cavafy (born 1863), Greek Alexandrine poet
      September 21 – Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢 賢治 (born 1896), early Shōwa period Japanese poet and author of children's literature (surname: Miyazawa)
      November 4 – John Jay Chapman (born 1862), American essayist, poet, author and lawyer
      December 4 – Stefan George (born 1868), German poet and translator


      See also



      Poetry
      List of poetry awards
      List of years in poetry


      Notes

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