1933 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 |
| Years in literature: | 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 |
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[edit] Events
- Black Mountain College founded as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracted poets who became known as the Black Mountain School of poetry.
- Gregory Grigson, founds New Verse (1933-39)
- Objectivist Press founded
[edit] Works published
- T.S. Eliot’s 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard published 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
- W. H. Auden, The Dance of Death
- E.E. Cummings, Eimi
- Cecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic Mountain
- A. E. Housman, Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge, "The Name and Nature of Poetry"
- D. H. Lawrence, Last Poems
- George Oppen, Discrete Series published by the Objectivist Press
- Charles Reznikoff, Jerusalem the Golden and In Memoriam: 1933 published by the Objectivist Press
- Stephen Spender, Poems
- Wiliam Carlos Williams, Collected Poems published by the Objectivist Press
- William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems
[edit] The discovery of Dorothy Wordsworth's importance
For nearly a century, Dorothy Wordsworth was relegated to a footnote in the life of her brother, William. But in 1931, Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit and other children's books, bought Dove Cottage, the Lake District home where Dorothy and William lived for several years. In the barn Potter found a bundle of old papers and realized that they were Dorothy's journals. The papers revealed how vital Dorothy was to her brother's success, and some lines in the journal are strongly echoed in William's poems. He relied on his sister's detailed accounts of nature scenes when writing poems and borrowed freely from her journals.
Potter's discovery was published this year as The Grasmere Journal. Dorothy Wordsworth's works came to light just as literary critics were beginning to re-examine women's role in literature. The success of the Grasmere Journal led to a renewed interest in Wordsworth, and several other journals and collections of her letters have since been published.
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
- January 25 — Alden Nowlan, (died 1983) Canadian poet
- September 11 — Robert Fagles, an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek Literature
- date not known:
- Gerald William Barrax - June 21,
- Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelist.
- Kevin Ireland,
- John Edward Mackenzie Lucie-Smith
- Joe Rosenblatt,
- Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
- Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
- January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
- April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
- December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator
- date not known:
- John Jay Chapman, American essayist, poet, author and lawyer
- Henry Van Dyke, American poet, author, educator, and clergyman
