1933 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
William Butler Yeats in 1933, the year The Winding Stair and Other Poems was published
- June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape".[1]
- A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserts 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.[2]
- Black Mountain College founded as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracts poets who become known as the Black Mountain School of poetry.
- Geoffrey Grigson founds New Verse (1933–39)
- Objectivist Press founded[3]
- Beacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication (founded in 1931)[4]
- New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic.
Works published in English
Canada
- Leo Kennedy, The Shrouding.[5]
- Wilson MacDonald, Paul Marchand and Other Poems. Guy Ritter illus., Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.[6]
- Frederick George Scott, Selected Poems.[7]
India, in English
- Lotika Ghose, White Dawns of Awakening ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.[8]
- Shriman Narayan, The Fountain of Life ( Poetry in English ), Bombay (second edition, Asia Publishing House, 1961)[9]
- Maneck B. Pithawalla, Links with the Past ( Poetry in English ), London: Poetry League[10]
- 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[11]
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, Poems: Second Edition[12]
- Roy Campbell, Flowering Reeds[12]
- Cecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic Mountain
- John Drinkwater, Summer Harvest[12]
- Walter de la Mare, The Fleeting, and Other Poems[12]
- 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[12]
- John Gawsworth, pen name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Poems 1930–1932[12]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1930–1933[12]
- 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[12]
- Laura Riding, Poet: a Lying Word[12]
- Vita Sackville-West, Collected Poems
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Road to Ruin[12]
- Stephen Spender, Poems[12]
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Collected Poems[12]
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems
United States
- Léonie Adams, This Measure[13]
- Stephen Vincent Benét, with Rosemary Carr Benet, A Book of Americans[13]
- John Peale Bishop, Now with His Love[13]
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Ballads of Square-Toed Americans[13]
- Hart Crane, Collected Poems[13]
- E. E. Cummings, EIMI
- Horace Gregory, No Retreat[13]
- Edgar A. Guest, Life's Highway[13]
- Robert Hillyer, Collected Verse[13]
- Robinson Jeffers, Give Your Heart to the Hawks[13]
- Archibald MacLeish:
- Ogden Nash, Happy Days[13]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, Pastures[13]
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Talifer[13]
- Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory[13]
- George Oppen, Discrete Series, published by the Objectivist Press
- Ezra Pound, editor, Active Anthology, London; American poet published in the United Kingdom[14]
- 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:
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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 radio[15]
- Jean Follain, La Main chaude, the author's first book of poems[16]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Sueurs de sang[17]
- Henri Michaux, Un Barbare en Asie[18]
- Marcelin Pleynet, French poet and art critic[18]
- Patrice de La Tour du Pin, La Quête de Joie[17]
- Raymond Queneau, Le Chiendent, a "novel-poem" which won the 1933 Prix des Deux-Magots[17]
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:
- 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[11]
- Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri, Tarana-e-Fazil, Kashmiri[11]
- Mahavira Prasad Dvivedi Abhinandran Granth, by several authors; an early Hindi example of festschrift honoring an influential editor and arbiter of taste and usage[11]
- Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Nallicaippulamai Mellryalarkal, largely based on literary sources, an essay on the women poets of the Sangam Age of Tamil literature[11]
- 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[11]
- Shripada Shastri Hauskar, Sri Sikhaguru-caritamrta, Sanskrit poem on the Sikh gurus[11]
- Sundaram, writing in Gujarati:
- V. Venkatarajuly Reddiyar, Paranar, a study of Paranar's poems and their relationship to the Sangam Age; Tamil[11]
Spanish language
- Pedro Salinas, La voz a ti debida ("The Voice Owed to You"); Spain[20]
- Emilio Vasquez, Altipampa, Peru[21]
- Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Las ínsulas extrañas, Peru[22]
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
- Nis Petersen, En Drift Vers ("A Drove of Verses"), including "Brændende Europa" ("Europe Aflame"), Denmark[23]
- J. Slauerhoff, Soleares, Netherlands
- Georg Trakl, Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ("Song of The Departed"); an Austrian native's work published in Germany
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 – Anne Stevenson, 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[24]
- April 29 – Rod McKuen (died 2015), American poet and songwriter
- May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), Russian[25]
- 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
- 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 "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 21 – George Moore (born 1852), Irish poet and novelist
- January 29 – Sara Teasdale (born 1884), American lyric poet
- April 16 – Henry van Dyke (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
Notes
- ↑ Preface to his anthology The Protestant Mystics (1964).
- ↑ Ellmann, Richard; O'Clair, Robert, eds. (1973). "A.E. Housman". The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 96–97. ISBN 0-393-09357-3.
- ↑ See articles on George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky and Objectivist poets.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ↑ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ↑ " Frederick George Scott," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
- ↑ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, 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
- ↑ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, 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
- ↑ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, 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
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Das, 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, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ↑ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, page xvi, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ↑ Web page titled "Poet / Jean Follain" at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- 1 2 3 Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- 1 2 Auster, 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
- 1 2 Mohan, 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, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ↑ Debicki, Andrew P., 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
- ↑ Fitts, 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
- ↑ Fitts, 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
- ↑ "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
- ↑ [http://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, Associated Press, September 30, 2008, as it appeared on the website of The New York Times, retrieved December 11, 2008
- ↑ Anderson, Raymond H., "Andrei Voznesensky, Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, June 2, 2010, The New York Times, retrieved same day
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