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Contents |
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 [1]
- Beacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication (founded in 1931)[2]
- New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, Poems: Second Edition[3]
- Roy Campbell, Flowering Reeds[3]
- Cecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic Mountain
- John Drinkwater, Summer Harvest[3]
- Walter de la Mare, The Fleeting, and Other Poems[3]
- 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[3]
- John Gawsworth, pen name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Poems 1930–1932[3]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1930–1933[3]
- 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[3]
- Laura Riding, Poet: a Lying Word[3]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Road to Ruin[3]
- Stephen Spender, Poems[3]
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Collected Poems[3]
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems
United States
- Leonie Adams, This Measure[4]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, with Rosemary Carr Benet, A Book of Americans[4]
- John Peale Bishop, Now with His Love[4]
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Ballads of Square-Toed Americans[4]
- Hart Crane, Collected Poems[4]
- E. E. Cummings, Eimi
- Horace Gregory, No Retreat[4]
- Edgar A. Guest, Life's Highway[4]
- Robert Hillyer, Collected Verse[4]
- Robinson Jeffers, Give Your Heart to the Hawks[4]
- Archibald MacLeish:
- Ogden Nash, Happy Days[4]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, Pastures[4]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Talifer[4]
- Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory[4]
- George Oppen, Discrete Series, published by the Objectivist Press
- Ezra Pound, editor, Active Anthology, London; American poet published in the United Kingdom[5]
- 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
- 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[6]
- 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
- Leo Kennedy, The Shrouding, Canada[7]
- William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France
- Jean Follain, La Main chaude, the author's first book of poems[8]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Sueurs de sang[9]
- Henri Michaux, Un Barbare en Asie[10]
- Marcelin Pleynet, French poet and art critic[10]
- Patrice de La Tour du Pin, La Quête de Joie[9]
- Raymond Queneau, Le Chiendent, a "novel-poem" which won the 1933 Prix des Deux-Magots[9]
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[6]
- Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri, Tarana-e-Fazil, Kashmiri[6]
- Mahavira Prasad Dvivedi Abhinandran Granth, by several authors; an early Hindi example of festschrift honoring an influential editor and arbiter of taste and usage[6]
- Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Nallicaippulamai Mellryalarkal, largely based on literary sources, an essay on the women poets of the Cankam Age of Tamil literature[6]
- 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[6]
- Shripada Shastri Hauskar, Sri Sikhaguru-caritamrta, Sanskrit poem on the Sikh gurus[6]
- Sundaram, writing in Gujarati:
- V. Venkatarajuly Reddiyar, Paranar, a study of Paranar's poems and their relationship to the Cankam Age; Tamil[6]
Other languages
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Bær paa straa, Denmark
- Pedro Salinas, La voz a ti debida ("The Voice Owed to You"); Spain[12]
- 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 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
- 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.[13]
- 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
See also
Notes
- ^ see articles on George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Objectivist poets for more information
- ^ "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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Poet / Jean Follain" at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b c Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b 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 0394521978
- ^ a b 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
- ^ No byline, [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
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