1933 in poetry

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

Events

 * A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion&mdash;not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer [...]". He criticized much of the poetry from the 17th and 18th centuries as deficient in this regard, and condemned Alexander Pope's poetry in particular while praising William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Cowper and William Blake.
 * Black Mountain College founded as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracted poets who became known as the Black Mountain School of poetry.
 * Geoffrey Grigson founds New Verse (1933-39)
 * Objectivist Press founded
 * Beacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication (founded in 1931)
 * New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic.

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, in English

 * 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

 * 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’s 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard published in November under the title The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism; lectures he delivers at the University of Virginia, are later 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, Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge, "The Name and Nature of Poetry"
 * D. H. Lawrence, Last Poems
 * Herbert Read, The End of a War
 * Laura Riding, Poet: a Lying Word
 * Siegfried Sassoon, The Road to Ruin
 * Stephen Spender, Poems
 * William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * Collected Poems
 * The Winding Stair and Other Poems

United States
These poets were chosen by Harold Monro for the 1933 edition:
 * Leonie Adams, This Measure
 * Stephen Vincent Benet, 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
 * Edward 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
 * Anthologies
 * Twentieth Century Poetry, an Anthology====


 * Lascelles Abercrombie
 * Richard Aldington
 * John Alford
 * A. C. Benson
 * Laurence Binyon
 * Edmund Blunden
 * W. S. Blunt
 * Gordon Bottomley
 * Robert Bridges
 * Rupert Brooke
 * Samuel Butler
 * Roy Campbell


 * G. K. Chesterton
 * Richard Church
 * Padraic Colum
 * A. E. Coppard
 * Frances Cornford
 * John Davidson
 * W. H. Davies
 * Jeffrey Day
 * Walter De la Mare
 * Lord Alfred Douglas
 * John Drinkwater
 * Helen Parry Eden


 * T. S. Eliot
 * Vivian Locke Ellis
 * Michael Field
 * J. E. Flecker
 * F. S. Flint
 * John Freeman
 * Stella Gibbons
 * Wilfrid Gibson
 * Robert Graves
 * Thomas Hardy
 * H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
 * Philip Henderson


 * Maurice Hewlett
 * Ralph Hodgson
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins
 * A.E. Housman
 * Ford Hueffer
 * T.E. Hulme
 * Aldous Huxley
 * James Joyce
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * D.H. Lawrence
 * Cecil Day Lewis
 * John Masefield


 * R.A.K. Mason
 * Charlotte Mew
 * Alice Meynell
 * Viola Meynell
 * Harold Monro
 * T. Sturge Moore
 * Edwin Muir
 * Henry Newbolt
 * Robert Nichols
 * Alfred Noyes
 * Wilfred Owen
 * J.D.C. Pellow


 * H.D.C. Pepler
 * Eden Phillpotts
 * Ezra Pound
 * Peter Quennell
 * Herbert Read
 * Isaac Rosenberg
 * Siegfried Sassoon
 * Geoffrey Scott
 * Edward Shanks
 * Fredegond Shove
 * Edith Sitwell
 * Osbert Sitwell


 * Sacheverell Sitwell
 * Stephen Spender
 * J.C. Squire
 * James Stephens
 * Edward Thomas
 * W.J. Turner
 * Sylvia Warner
 * Max Weber
 * Anna Wickham
 * Humbert Wolfe
 * W.B. Yeats

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

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 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 Cankam Age of Tamil literature
 * Puttaparti 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 Cankam 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

Other languages

 * Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Bær paa straa, Denmark
 * Nis Petersen, En Drift Vers ("A Drove of Verses"), including "Brændende Europa" ("Europe Aflame"), Denmark
 * 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 25 – Alden Nowlan, (died 1983), Canadian poet
 * February 5 – B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson; died 1973), English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker
 * February 23 – Donna J. Stone née von Schoenweiler (died 1994), American poet and philanthropist, author of Wielder of Words
 * 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.
 * May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), Russian
 * June 21 – Gerald William Barrax, African American
 * August 16 – Reiner Kunze, German
 * September 11 – Robert Fagles, an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek Literature
 * Also:
 * Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelist.
 * Kevin Ireland,
 * John Edward Lucie-Smith
 * Conrad Kent Rivers, African American
 * Joe Rosenblatt,
 * Peter Scupham, English
 * James Simmons (died 2001), Northern Ireland poet, literary critic and songwriter
 * Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
 * Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 21 – George Moore, poet, novelist
 * January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
 * April 29 – Constantine Cavafy, 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)
 * December 4 – Stefan George, poet and translator
 * Also:
 * John Jay Chapman, American essayist, poet, author and lawyer
 * Henry Van Dyke, American poet, author, educator, and clergyman