Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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".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. 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)."Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry", p xviii, in Brenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1998, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009.
Works published in English
Canada Leo Kennedy, The Shrouding.Gnarowsky, Michael, "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.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. Frederick George Scott, Selected Poems." Frederick George Scott ," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
India, in English Lotika Ghose, White Dawns of Awakening ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Shriman Narayan, The Fountain of Life ( Poetry in English ), Bombay (second edition, Asia Publishing House, 1961)Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Maneck B. Pithawalla, Links with the Past ( Poetry in English ), London: Poetry LeagueVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , 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, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
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, 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 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:
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 Jeffery 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
Works published in other languages
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 "Poet / Jean Follain" at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 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 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 VaniMohan, Sarala Jag, 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, , 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., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , 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 7 – Soltan Abbas (died 2025), Azerbaijani poet January 16 – Ivan Chtcheglov (died 1998), French political theorist, activist and poet January 25 – Alden Nowlan, (died 1983), Canadian poet