Events
- A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted 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 criticized much of the poetry from the 17th and 18th centuries as deficient in this regard, and condemned 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 attracted poets who became 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.
Read more about this topic: 1933 In Poetry
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