1937 in poetry
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Events [edit]
- Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa
- George Hill Dillon becomes editor of Poetry Magazine and stays in that job until 1949.
- Summer — In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampooned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in Willrich's book Säuberung des Kunsttempels; Heinrich Himmler, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output was dismissed as irrelevant).
- William Butler Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936).[1]
Works published in English [edit]
Canada [edit]
- Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.[2]
- E.J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan.[3] Governor General's Award 1937.
India, in English [edit]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[4]
- P. R. Kaikini, This Civilization ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co.[5]
- Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature ( Poetry in English ), London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom[6]
United Kingdom [edit]
- W. H. Auden, Spain[7]
- W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry[7]
- George Barker, Calamiterror[7]
- John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse,[7] including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
- Edmund Blunden, The Road to Oxiana[7]
- David Jones, In Parenthesis
- Charles Madge, The Disappearing Castle[7]
- Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places[7]
- Enoch Powell, First Poems (Oxford: Blackwell’s).[8]
- Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published[7]
- Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Stevie Smith, A Good Time Was Had By All[7]
United States [edit]
- W. H. Auden, with Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland[9]
- R. P. Blackmur, From Jordan's Delight[9]
- Louise Bogan, the Sleeping Fury[9]
- Richard Eberhart, Reading the Spirit[9]
- Robert Hillyer, A Letter to Robert Frost and Others[9]
- Robinson Jeffers, Such Counsels You Gave to Me[9]
- Josephine Johnson, Year's End[9]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight[9]
- Ezra Pound, The Fifth Decad of Cantos[9]
- May Sarton, Encounter in April[9]
- Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the author's first book; for children
- Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, and Other Poems, includes "The Man with the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling", Knopf[10]
- Allen Tate, Selected Poems[9]
Other in English [edit]
- Allen Curnow, Enemies: Poems 1934–36 (Caxton), New Zealand
- Robin Hyde, Wednesday's Children, New Zealand
- Seaforth Mackenzie, Our Earth, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia
Works published in French [edit]
Canada [edit]
- Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Regards et jeux dans l'espace [11]
France [edit]
- Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommes[12]
- Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old[12]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celeste[13]
- Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis[13]
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz[13]
- Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur[13]
- Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille[13]
- Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973[13]
Works published in other languages [edit]
Indian subcontinent [edit]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Bengali [edit]
- Mallavarapu Visveswara Rao, Madukila, notable for its style, sentiments and various metrics[14]
- Rabindranath Tagore:
- Samar Sen, Kayekti Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language[14]
- Sudhindranath Dutta, Krandasi[14]
Telugu [edit]
- Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu[14]
- Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry[14]
- Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous[14]
- Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu[14]
- Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu[14]
Urdu [edit]
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Noor-e-Mashriq (The Light of the East) - Collection of nazms, geets and sonnets published by Jyoti Prasad Gupta, Jyoti Printing Works, Esplanade, Delhi in 1937.
Other Indian languages [edit]
- Anupa Sharma, Siddharth, a Hindi epic in 18 chapters on the story of Gautama Buddha[14]
- D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada[14]
- Devandas Kishinani, 'Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-language[14]
- Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri[14]
- Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Manipuri poem[14]
- Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada[14]
- Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili[14]
- Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi[14]
Spanish language [edit]
Peru [edit]
- Xavier Abril, Descubrimiento del alba[15]
- José Santos Chocano, Poemas de amor doliente, Peru[16]
- Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Así bajaron los perros[15]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Waino[15]
Other in Spanish [edit]
- Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; Spain[17]
Awards and honors [edit]
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post which was later called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Joseph Auslander appointed this year (he would serve until 1941)
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Edwin Markham
- Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Fable of the Goats, E.J. Pratt [18]
Births [edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1:
- John Fuller (poet), English poet and author
- Dilwar Khan, Bengali poet
- April 30 – Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
- May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
- June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
- June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
- September 14 – Douglas Oliver, British poet
- October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic, and translator
- November 9 – Roger McGough, British poet
- November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
- November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand, poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
- December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
- Also:
- Coleman Barks, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
- Kurt Bartsch, German[19]
- Marvin Bell, American poet
- Eugene B. Redmond, African American
- John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
- Glen Sorestad
- Dabney Stuart, American
- Diane Wakoski, an American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats
- Eleanor Wilner
Deaths [edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 18 – Julian Bell, English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members included his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, the writer Quentin Bell; and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett, his half-sister; died in the Spanish Civil War
- October 22 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (born 1907), early Shōwa period Japanese poet (surname: Nakahara)
- December 26 – Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet
- December 29 – Don Marquis, American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
- August 11 – Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
- Also:
See also [edit]
Notes [edit]
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, pp 121-122
- ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ^ 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 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ "Works by Enoch Powell". enochpowell.net.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ David M. Hayne, "Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau", The Canadian Encyclopedia. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
- ^ a b Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c d e f 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 p q r 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 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 book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 589
- ^ Web page titled "José Santos Chocano" at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
- ^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 43, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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