1933 in poetry
Events
- 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
Works published
- T. S. Eliot’s 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard published 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
- W. H. Auden, The Dance of Death
- E.E. Cummings, Eimi
- Allen Curnow, Valley of Decision (R.W. Lowry) New Zealand)
- Cecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic Mountain
- A. E. Housman, Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge, "The Name and Nature of Poetry"
- D. H. Lawrence, Last Poems
- George Oppen, Discrete Series published by the Objectivist Press
- Ezra Pound, editor, Active Anthology, London[1]
- Charles Reznikoff, Jerusalem the Golden and In Memoriam: 1933 published by the Objectivist Press
- Stephen Spender, Poems
- Georg Trakl, Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ("Song of The Departed"). The Austrian native's work was published in Germany.
- William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems published by the Objectivist Press
- William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Twentieth Century Poetry, an Anthology
These poets were chosen by Harold Monro for the 1933 edition:
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Awards and honors
Births
- January 25 — Alden Nowlan, (died 1983) Canadian poet
- 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
- date not known:
- Gerald William Barrax - June 21,
- Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelist.
- Kevin Ireland,
- John Edward Mackenzie Lucie-Smith
- Joe Rosenblatt,
- Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
- Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer
Deaths
- January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
- January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
- April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
- December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator
- date not known:
- John Jay Chapman, American essayist, poet, author and lawyer
- Henry Van Dyke, American poet, author, educator, and clergyman
See also
References
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121