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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[]
- W.B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
- 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 Norton lectures at Harvard (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).
Works published in English[]
Canada[]
- Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.[1]
- E.J. Pratt, ''Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.[2]
- W.W.E. Ross, Sonnets.[3]
Indian poetry in English[]
- Govind Krishna Chettur:
- Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary ( Poetry in English ), Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press[4]
- Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka ( Poetry in English ), Secunderabad: self-published[5]
- Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[4]
- Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East ( Poetry in English ), Karachi: Bharat Publishing House[6]
United Kingdom[]
- AE, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains[7]
- Edmund Blunden, Halfway House[7]
- W.H. Auden, The Orators: An English study[7]
- Roy Campbell, Pomegranates[7]
- W.H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31[7]
- Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems[7]
- T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism[7]
- Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
- Sir Julian Sorell 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[7]
- William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen[7]
- W.B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems,[7] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States[]
- W H. Auden, The Orators[8]
- Sterling Brown, Southern Road
- Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama[8]
- Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems[8]
- Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador[8]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus[8]
- Allen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931[8]
- Sara Teasdale, A Country House[8]
- 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[]
France[]
- André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancs[9]
- Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate[9]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loups[9]
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:
Hindi[]
- Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"[10]
- Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes[10]
- Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature[10]
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[10]
- Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi[10]
- D.R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada[10]
- Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri[10]
- Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition[10]
- Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory material[10]
- Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali[10]
- 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[10]
- Rallapalli Anantakrishna 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"[10]
- 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[10]
- Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry[10]
- T.N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit[10]
Spanish language[]
Spain[]
- Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios ("Swords or/as Lips")[11]
- Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas ("Expert in Moon Matters")[11]
- María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia ("Elegy of Spain's Tradition")[11]
Latin America[]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, Peru[12]
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[13]
- 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) British poet
- January 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
- February 6 – Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and critic
- February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), U.S. novelist and poet who was a founder of the Pushcart Prize.
- March 16 – Harold Monro (born 1879), English poet, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
- March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer[14]
- May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English
- June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
- June 29 – Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005) English teacher, poet and critic
- August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967 fighting for the independence of Biafra
- September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
- October 20 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
- October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
- October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American 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.
- Also
- Alauddin Al-Azad, 77 (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic[15]
- Jergen Becker, German[16]
- Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
- Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
- Linda Pastan, American poet
- Eugene Perkins, African American poet
- Peter William Redgrove (died 2003), British poet, novelist, playwright, and author of books on women's health
- Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
- Rosemary Tonks, British poet
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
- April 27 – Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
- December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66, Canadian poet.
- Also
- Ahmed Shawqi أحمد شوقي (born 1868), Egyptian
- Hubert Church
- Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
- Clinton Scollard
See also[]
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
Notes[]
- ↑ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", 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
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ↑ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ↑ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 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 0394521978
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 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, Strauss and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0374125546
- ↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Ordinary, Is Dead at 76 ", obituary, The New York Times, January 28, 2009, retrieved from the website the day the article first appeared — on January 27, 2009
- ↑ "Poet Alauddin Al Azad passes away", article, The Daily Star, July 4, 2009, retrieved same day. Archived 2009-07-21.
- ↑ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
External links[]
- "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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