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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

  • 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[]

Canada[]

Indian poetry in English[]

  • Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[6]
  • P.R. Kaikini, This Civilization ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co.[7]
  • 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[8]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Other in English[]

Works published in French[]

Canadian poetry in French[]

France[]

  • Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommes[14]
  • Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old[14]
  • Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celeste[15]
  • Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis[15]
  • Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz[15]
  • Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur[15]
  • Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille[15]
  • Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973[15]

Works published in other languages[]

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:

Bengali[]

  • Mallavarapu Visveswara Rao, Madukila, notable for its style, sentiments and various metrics[16]
  • Rabindranath Tagore:
    • Khapchada, short, humorous and frivolous poems in the style of nursery rhymes[16]
    • Chadar Chabi[16]
  • Samar Sen, Kayekti Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language[16]
  • Sudhindranath Dutta, Krandasi[16]

Telugu[]

  • Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu[16]
  • Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry[16]
  • Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous[16]
  • Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu[16]
  • Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu[16]

Other Indian languages[]

  • Anupa Sharma, Siddharth, a Hindi epic in 18 chapters on the story of Gautama Buddha[16]
  • D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada[16]
  • Devandas Kishinani, 'Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-language[16]
  • Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri[16]
  • Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Manipuri poem[16]
  • Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada[16]
  • Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili[16]
  • Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi[16]

Spanish language[]

Peru[]

  • Xavier Abril, Descubrimiento del alba[17]
  • José Santos Chocano, Poemas de amor doliente, Peru[18]
  • Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Así bajaron los perros[17]
  • Luis Fabio Xammar, Waino[17]

Other in Spanish[]

  • Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; Spain[19]

Awards and honors[]

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

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Deaths[]

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
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See also[]

Notes[]

  1. 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
  2. Helena Coleman, Songs: Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics (Toronto: Ryerson, 1937), Web, June 12, 2011.
  3. Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
  4. "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
  5. Hilary Waterhouse, "Lloyd Roberts," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Web, June 10, 2011.
  6. 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
  7. 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 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
  8. 8.0 8.1 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.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  10. [/http://www.enochpowell.net/works-by-enoch-powell.html2010/07/ "Works by Enoch Powell"]. enochpowell.net. /http://www.enochpowell.net/works-by-enoch-powell.html2010/07/. 
  11. 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  12. Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
  13. David M. Hayne, "Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau", The Canadian Encyclopedia. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
  14. 14.0 14.1 Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 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
  16. 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 16.11 16.12 16.13 16.14 16.15 16.16 16.17 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
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 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 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "dfacla" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "dfacla" defined multiple times with different content
  18. Web page titled "José Santos Chocano" at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
  19. 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
  20. "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
  21. Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006


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