Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape".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.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 foundedBeacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication (founded in 1931)New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic.Leo Kennedy, The Shrouding.Wilson MacDonald, Paul Marchand and Other Poems. Guy Ritter illus., Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.Frederick George Scott, Selected Poems.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 LeagueMulk 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; criticismW. H. Auden, Poems: Second EditionRoy Campbell, Flowering ReedsCecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic MountainJohn Drinkwater, Summer HarvestWalter de la Mare, The Fleeting, and Other PoemsT. 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 GodsEleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden WallJohn Gawsworth, pen name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Poems 1930–1932Robert Graves, Poems 1930–1933A. E. Housman, Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge, "The Name and Nature of Poetry"D. H. Lawrence, Last PoemsHerbert Read, The End of a WarLaura Riding, Poet: a Lying WordVita Sackville-West, Collected PoemsSiegfried Sassoon, The Road to RuinStephen Spender, PoemsWilliam Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:Collected PoemsThe Winding Stair and Other PoemsLéonie Adams, This MeasureStephen Vincent Benét, with Rosemary Carr Benet, A Book of AmericansJohn Peale Bishop, Now with His LoveRobert P. Tristram Coffin, Ballads of Square-Toed AmericansHart Crane, Collected PoemsE. E. Cummings, EIMIHorace Gregory, No RetreatEdgar A. Guest, Life's HighwayRobert Hillyer, Collected VerseRobinson Jeffers, Give Your Heart to the HawksArchibald MacLeish:Frescos for Mr. Rockefeller's CityPoemsOgden Nash, Happy DaysLizette Woodworth Reese, PasturesEdwin Arlington Robinson, TaliferSara Teasdale, Strange VictoryGeorge Oppen, Discrete Series, published by the Objectivist PressEzra Pound, editor, Active Anthology, London; American poet published in the United KingdomCharles Reznikoff, Jerusalem the Golden and In Memoriam: 1933 published by the Objectivist PressWilliam Carlos Williams, Collected Poems, Objectivist PressThese poets were chosen by Harold Monro for the 1933 edition:
Kenneth Slessor, Australia:Darlinghurst Nights: and Morning Glories: Being 47 Strange Sights, SydneyFunny Farmyard: Nursery Rhymes and Painting Book, with drawings by Sydney Miller, Sydney: Frank JohnsonAllen Curnow, Valley of Decision (R.W. Lowry), New ZealandWilliam Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United KingdomRobert Desnos, Complainte de Fantomas, written for radioJean Follain, La Main chaude, the author's first book of poemsPierre Jean Jouve, Sueurs de sangHenri Michaux, Un Barbare en AsieMarcelin Pleynet, French poet and art criticPatrice de La Tour du Pin, La Quête de JoieRaymond Queneau, Le Chiendent, a "novel-poem" which won the 1933 Prix des Deux-MagotsIncluding 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, Assamesetranslator, Haphejar Sur, poems by the Persian poet Havij into AssameseG. Sankara Kurup, Surykanti, Malayalam, including poems on mystic experiences and platonic love, written in a style strongly influenced by Rabindranath Tagore and Persian poetsGhulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri, Tarana-e-Fazil, KashmiriMahavira Prasad Dvivedi Abhinandran Granth, by several authors; an early Hindi example of festschrift honoring an influential editor and arbiter of taste and usageMu. Raghava Ayyankar, Nallicaippulamai Mellryalarkal, largely based on literary sources, an essay on the women poets of the Sangam Age of Tamil literaturePuttaparthi 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; TeluguShripada Shastri Hauskar, Sri Sikhaguru-caritamrta, Sanskrit poem on the Sikh gurusSundaram, writing in Gujarati:Bhagatni Kadvi VaniKavyamangalaV. Venkatarajuly Reddiyar, Paranar, a study of Paranar's poems and their relationship to the Sangam Age; TamilPedro Salinas, La voz a ti debida ("The Voice Owed to You"); SpainEmilio Vasquez, Altipampa, PeruEmilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Las ínsulas extrañas, PeruMehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Tullu (The Dawn), collection of poems of Zia Fatehabadi published by Saghar Nizami, Adabi Markaz, Meerut, India.Nis Petersen, En Drift Vers ("A Drove of Verses"), including "Brændende Europa" ("Europe Aflame"), DenmarkJ. Slauerhoff, Soleares, NetherlandsGeorg Trakl, Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ("Song of The Departed"); an Austrian native's work published in GermanyAwards and honors
Guggenheim Fellowship: E.E. CummingsPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: ConquistadorDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – Anne Stevenson, American-British poetJanuary 16 – Ivan Chtcheglov (died 1998), French political theorist, activist and poetJanuary 25 – Alden Nowlan, (died 1983), Canadian poetFebruary 5 – B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson; died 1973), English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmakerFebruary 14 – James Simmons (died 2001), Northern Ireland poet, literary critic and songwriterFebruary 23 – Donna J. Stone née von Schoenweiler (died 1994), American poet and philanthropist, author of Wielder of WordsFebruary 24 – Peter Scupham, EnglishFebruary 27 – Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaican-born British poet and art criticApril 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 poemsApril 29 – Rod McKuen (died 2015), American poet and songwriterMay 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), RussianJune 21 – Gerald William Barrax, African AmericanJuly 18 – Kevin Ireland, New ZealandAugust 1 or April 11 – Ko Un, born Ko Untae, South KoreaAugust 16 – Reiner Kunze, GermanSeptember 11 – Robert Fagles, American professor, poet and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek LiteratureOctober 21 – Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelistDecember 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan and poetDecember 26 – Joe Rosenblatt, CanadaAlso – Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writerDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 – George Moore (born 1852), Irish poet and novelistJanuary 29 – Sara Teasdale (born 1884), American lyric poetApril 16 – Henry van Dyke (born 1852), American poet, author, educator and clergymanApril 29 – Constantine P. Cavafy (born 1863), Greek Alexandrine poetSeptember 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 lawyerDecember 4 – Stefan George (born 1868), German poet and translator 
