1933 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

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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".Preface to his anthology The Protestant Mystics (1964).
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.{{cite book|editor1=Ellmann, Richard |editor2=O'Clair, Robert |title=The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry|chapter=A.E. Housman|pages=96–97|location=New York|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=1973|isbn=0-393-09357-3}}
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.See articles on George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky and Objectivist poets.
Beacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication (founded in 1931).[https://books.google.com/books?id=JgPCIWKRiGEC "Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry"], p xviii, in Brenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0-521-58712-9}}, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009.

Works published in English

=[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=

Leo Kennedy, The Shrouding.Gnarowsky, Michael, [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/poetry-in-english/ "Poetry in English, 1918-1960"], article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
Wilson MacDonald, Paul Marchand and Other Poems. Guy Ritter illus., Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.[https://openlibrary.org/search?q=wilson+macdonald Search results: Wilson MacDonald], Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
Frederick George Scott, Selected Poems."

[http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm Frederick George Scott] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501025903/http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm |date=2012-05-01 }}," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.

=[[Indian poetry|India]], [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]=

Lotika Ghose, White Dawns of Awakening ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)], p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
Shriman Narayan, The Fountain of Life ( Poetry in English ), Bombay (second edition, Asia Publishing House, 1961)Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)], p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
Maneck B. Pithawalla, Links with the Past ( Poetry in English ), London: Poetry LeagueVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)], p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
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; criticismDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2], 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, {{ISBN|978-81-7201-798-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

=[[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 EditionCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
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

=[[American poetry|United States]]=

Léonie Adams, This MeasureLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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 KingdomAckroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
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 (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

=[[French poetry|France]]=

Robert Desnos, Complainte de Fantomas, written for radioHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, page xvi, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
Jean Follain, La Main chaude, the author's first book of poemsWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2260 "Poet / Jean Follain"] at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100615180856/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2260 Archived] 2009-09-03.
Pierre Jean Jouve, Sueurs de sangBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Henri Michaux, Un Barbare en AsieAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 {{ISBN|0-394-52197-8}}
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 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, 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 VaniMohan, Sarala Jag, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&dq=Urdu+poets&pg=PA100 Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"] (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-313-28778-7}}, retrieved December 10, 2008
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"); SpainDebicki, Andrew P., [https://archive.org/details/spanishpoetryoft0000debi Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond], University Press of Kentucky, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-8131-0835-3}}, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
Emilio Vasquez, Altipampa, PeruFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this edition was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 647
Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Las ínsulas extrañas, PeruFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649

=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"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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 poemsAssociated Press, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/books/30pavlov.html?scp=10&sq=died%20poet&st=cse "Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian Poet, Is Dead at 75"], obituary, The New York Times, September 30, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2008.
April 29 – Rod McKuen (died 2015), American poet and songwriter
May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), RussianAnderson, Raymond H., [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/books/02voznesensky.html?sq=Voznesensky&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all "Andrei Voznesensky, Poet, Dies at 77"], obituary, June 2, 2010, The New York Times. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
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