1933 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of New Verse in London (1933–39). January–March – New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic. June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape". May 9 – A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in Cambridge, asserting 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 in the United States as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracts poets who become known as the Black Mountain School of poetry. Objectivist Press founded. Beacon magazine in Trinidad ceases publication (founded in 1931). 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 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.