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 founded
Beacon 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 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
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’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
John Gawsworth, pen name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Poems 1930–1932
Robert Graves, Poems 1930–1933
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
Laura Riding, Poet: a Lying Word
Vita Sackville-West, Collected Poems
Siegfried Sassoon, The Road to Ruin
Stephen Spender, Poems
William Butler 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
These poets were chosen by Harold Monro for the 1933 edition:
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
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
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
Pedro Salinas, La voz a ti debida ("The Voice Owed to You"); Spain
Emilio Vasquez, Altipampa, Peru
Emilio Adolfo von Westphalen, Las ínsulas extrañas, Peru
Mehr 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"), Denmark
J. Slauerhoff, Soleares, Netherlands
Georg Trakl, Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ("Song of The Departed"); an Austrian native's work published in Germany
Awards and honors
Guggenheim Fellowship: E.E. Cummings
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
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
April 29 – Rod McKuen (died 2015), American poet and songwriter
May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky (died 2010), Russian
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
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
