Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published 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
- 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 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, 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
- Léonie Adams, This Measure
- 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 Kingdom
- 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
Works published in other languages
- 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 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 Vani
- Kavyamangala
- V. Venkatarajuly Reddiyar, Paranar, a study of Paranar's poems and their relationship to the Sangam Age; Tamil
Spanish language
Urdu language
Other languages
Awards and honors
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
- 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 РDonna J. Stone n̩e 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
- April 29 – Rod McKuen (died 2015), American poet and songwriter
- May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), Russian
- 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
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
- March 1 – UÃ
Âadzimir Ã
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Âka (born 1900), Belarusian poet
- April 16 – Henry van Dyke Jr. (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 ShÃ
Âwa 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
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