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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
- April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.[1]
- July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.
- In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
- T. S. Eliot begins his 1932–33 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).
Works published in English
- Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.[2]
- E. J. Pratt, Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.[3]
- W. W. E. Ross, Sonnets.[4]
- Govind Krishna Chettur:
- Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press[5]
- Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka, Secunderabad: self-published[6]
- Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems, Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[5]
- Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East, Karachi: Bharat Publishing House[7]
- Æ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains[8]
- Edmund Blunden, Halfway House[8]
- W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study[8]
- Roy Campbell, Pomegranates[8]
- W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31[8]
- Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems
- Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems[8]
- T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism[8]
- Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
- Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
- F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems[8]
- William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen[8]
- Aeneas Francon Williams, Dream Drift, by a Young Lover
- S. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biography
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems,[8] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, The Orators[9]
- Sterling Brown, Southern Road
- Mary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"
- Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama[9]
- Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems[9]
- Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador[9]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus[9]
- Allen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931[9]
- Sara Teasdale, A Country House[9]
- William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head
Other in English
- Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
- André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancs[10]
- Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate[10]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loups[10]
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"[11]
- Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes[11]
- Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature[11]
Other Indian languages
- Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering[11]
- Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi[11]
- D. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada[11]
- Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri[11]
- Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition[11]
- Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory material[11]
- Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali[11]
- Rabindranath Thakur, Punasca, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian anthologist and academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali[11]
- Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma, translator, Salivahana gatha saptasati saramu, translated from the Prakrit of Hāla's Gaha Sattasai into Telugu, in "ataveladi" meter; according to academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das, writing in 1995, the work "is still considered a model for poetical translation"[11]
- K. Shankara Bhat, Nalme, three long narrative poems in Kannada on tragic subjects: Honniya maduve ("Marriage of Honni"), depicting village life in coastal Karnataka; Madriya Cite ("Pyre of Madri"), on the tragic end of Madri, wife of Pandu[11]
- Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry[11]
- T. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit[11]
Spanish language
- Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios ("Swords or/as Lips")[12]
- Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas ("Expert in Moon Matters")[12]
- María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia ("Elegy of Spain's Tradition")[12]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, Peru[13]
Other languages
- Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth, Russia
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
- Eugenio Montale, La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi; Italy[14]
- Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern), Greece
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Peter Redgrove (died 2003), English poet
- January 5 – Douglas Livingstone (died 1996), Malaysian-born South African poet
- January 19 – George MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish-born poet and novelist
- February 6 – Shankha Ghosh (died 2021), Bengali poet and critic
- February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize
- March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer[15]
- April 10 – Adrian Henri (died 2000), English member of the Liverpool poets
- April 11 – Bienvenido Lumbera (died 2021), Filipino poet, critic and dramatist
- May 6 – Alauddin Al-Azad (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic[16]
- May 7
- Jenny Joseph (died 2018), English poet
- Yadollah Royaee (died 2022), Iranian poet
- May 25 – Patrick Cullinan (died 2011), South African poet
- May 27 – Linda Pastan, American poet
- June 18 – Geoffrey Hill (died 2016), English poet and academic at Boston University
- June 29
- July 10 – Martin Green (died 2015), English author, poet and publisher
- July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko (died 2017), Soviet Russian poet and writer
- July 21 – Marie-Claire Bancquart (died 2019), French poet and critic
- August 16 – Christopher Okigbo (died in Biafran War 1967), Nigerian poet
- September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
- September 13 – Eugene Perkins, African-American poet
- October 9 – Seda Vermisheva (died 2020), Soviet Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist
- October 17 – Rosemary Tonks (died 2014), English poet
- October 20 – Michael McClure (died 2020), American poet and playwright
- October 24 – Adrian Mitchell (died 2008), English poet and playwright
- October 27 – Sylvia Plath (suicide 1963), American-born poet and novelist (The Bell Jar)
- December 11 – Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist; with wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press
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Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
- April 8 – Hubert Church, 74 (born 1857), Australian poet
- April 27 – Hart Crane, 32 (born 1899), American poet, by suicide
- June 21 – حافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim, 60 (born 1871), Egyptian "poet of the Nile"
- August 29 – Raymond Knister, 33 (born 1899), Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accident
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61 (born 1870), Australian poet
- October 14 – أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64 (born 1868), Egyptian poet
- November 19 – Clinton Scollard, 72 (born 1860), American poet
- December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66 (born 1866), Canadian American poet
See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
Notes
- ^ Hamill, Janet. "The Lonesome Death of Hart Crane". About.com Poetry. Retrieved 2014-04-02.
- ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b c d e Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ a b c Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 42, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this edition was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649
- ^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-12554-6
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (2009-01-28). "John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Ordinary, Is Dead at 76". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ "Poet Alauddin Al Azad passes away". The Daily Star. 2009-07-04. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- ^ Michael, Hofmann, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.