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Events
- English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
- American poet Louis Zukofsky finishes the first half of A
Works published
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised:
Canada
- A. M. Klein, Hath Not a Jew, Canada[1]
- E. J. Pratt (Canada):
- Brebeuf and his Brethren[1]
- Towards the Last Spike
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden English poet living at this time in the United States:
- Another Time,[2] including the famous "September 1, 1939"
- Some Poems[2]
- Sir John Betjeman, Old Lights for New Chancels
- Cecil Day Lewis:
- The Georgics of Virgil
- Poems in Wartime[2]
- T. S. Eliot:
- The Waste Land, and Other Poems, The Waste Land first published in 1923[2]
- East Coker, published in The New English Weekly, Easter Number; published in book form in June; republished in Four Quartets 1944[2]
- William Empson, The Gathering Storm[2]
- Roy Fuller, Poems[2]
- Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland and Sorley MacLean, also known as Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 17 Poems for 6d. in Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English[2]
- Rayner Heppenstall, Blind Men's Flowers are Green[2]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, editor, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
- Louis MacNeice, The Last Ditch[2]
- Stephen Spender, Selected Poems[2]
- Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
- Henry Treece, 38 Poems[2]
- W. B. Yeats, Last Poems and Plays, published posthumously[2]
United States
- Conrad Aiken, And in the Human Heart[3]
- W. H. Auden English poet living at this time in the United States:
- Another Time,[2] including the famous "September 1, 1939"
- Some Poems[2]
- Leonard Bacon, Sunderland Capture[3]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, Nightmare at Noon[3]
- Witter Bynner, Against the Cold[3]
- John Ciardi, Homeward to America[3]
- E. E. Cummings, 50 Poems[3]
- Richard Eberhart, Song and Idea[3]
- Kenneth Fearing, Collected Poems[3]
- Robert Hayden, Heart-Shape in the Dust[3]
- Phyllis McGinley, A Pocketful of Wry[3]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Make Bright the Arrows[3]
- Ogden Nash, The Face is Familiar[3]
- Ezra Pound, Cantos LII–LXXI[3]
- Frederic Prokosch, Death at Sea[3]
- Kenneth Rexroth, In What Hour[3]
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Song in the Meadow[3]
Other in English
- E. H. McCormick, Letters and Art in New Zealand, scholarship[4]
- Manjeri Sundaraman, Catguts, Madras: Hurley Press; India, Indian poetry in English[5]
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised:
Greece
- Odysseus Elytis's first book, Orientations
- Giorgos Seferis:
- Τετράδιο Γυμνασμάτων ("Exercise Book")
- Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος Ι ("Deck Diary I")
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
- Premendra Mitra, Samrat[6]
- Rabindranath Tagore:
- Nabajatak, with themes and images from urban and industrial life (such as radios, railways and airplanes), a sharp contrast to the rural and natural themes of traditional Bengali poetry[6]
- Rogsayyay, written during his illness and with many images of sickness and worry, but without despondancy (see also Arogya 1941, called a "companion volume" with a contrasting mood)[6]
- Sanai, poems with a nostalgic tone[6]
- Chelebela, autobiography concerning the author's childhood[6]
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Padatik, poems reflecting Marxist ideology and politics in general, with a combination of lyricism and sloganeering; the consonance and speech-like rhythm of these poems became popular and influential in Bengali poetry[6]
- V. K. Gokak, also known as "Vinayaka", Samudra Gitagalu, poems about the potency and loveliness of the sea; the poems experiment with new diction and meters, including free verse[6]
Hindi
- Narendra Sharma, Palas Van, mostly sensuous poems of love and beauty[6]
- Ramadhari Singh Dinakar, Rasavanti[6]
- Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay, also known as "Hariandha", Vaidehi Vanavas, based on Sita's exile[6]
Kannada
- B. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sahitya Samsodhana, literary criticism on some older works of Kannada literature[6]
- Muliya Timmappayya, Navanita Ramayana, the Ramayana in ragale meter[6]
- S. V. Parameshwara Bhatt, Ragini, 28 love poems[6]
Urdu
- Muhiuddin Qadri Zor, Ruh-i tanqid, introduction to principles of Western literary criticism[6]
- Nasiruddin Hashmi, Khavatin-i Dakan Ki Urdu Khidmat, literary history on women Urdu writers from Deccan[6]
- Syed Mohammad Hasnain, Jauhar-i-Iqbal, literary criticism in Urdu on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal's Urdu poetry[6]
Other Indian languages
- Ahad Zargar, Tarana-e-Ahad Zargar, Sufistic ghazals and vatsans; Kashmiri[6]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Asamiya Sahityar Buranjit Bhumuki, a comprehensive review of early Assamese literature; criticism[6]
- K. V. Jaganathan, Tamilkkavyankal, literary history of Tamil epics, compared to the traditions of Sanskrit poetry and world literature[6]
- Kavi Nhanalal, Kuruksetra, final part of a 12-canto, Gujarati epic about the war of the Mahabharat, written in poetic prose, intersperesed with songs (first canto published 1926[6]
- Maiyilai Seeni Venkataswamy, Pauttamum Tamilum, literary history on the influence of Buddhism on Tamil culture and literature[6]
- N. M. Sant and Indira Sant, a poet and couple publishing together; N. M. Sant's poems show influences from Madhav Julian, Indira Sant's reflect folklore; Marathi[6]
- Prahlad Parekh, Bari Bahar, called a "milestone in the history of Gujarati poetry of the post-Ghandian era" by Indian academic Siser Kumar Das[6]
- Sankarambadi Sundarachari, Ma Telugu talliki malle pudanda, popular "prayer song" in Andhra, originally written for a film that was never completed, a record of the song was published, and its popularity led the government of Andhra Pradesh to declare it a prayer song to be sung along with Vandemataram [6]
Spain
- Gerardo Diego, Angeles de Compostela ("Angels of Compostela"), 42 sonnets on diverse topics; Spain[7]
- Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York ("A Poet in New York") published posthumously this year (written in 1930;first translation into English in 1988)
- Dionisio Ridruejo, Poesía en armas ("Poetry in Arms"); Spain[7]
Other languages
- Pierre Reverdy, Plein Verre, France[8]
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Thwaites
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 16 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (died 1975), German
- May 24 – Joseph Brodsky (died 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky in Russia, a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992)
- September 8 – Jack Prelutsky, American poet noted for his children's poems
- October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
- November 1 – William Heyen, American poet, editor, and literary critic
- Also:
- Douglas Barbour
- Michael Dennis Browne, American (a native Englishman naturalized as a United States citizen in 1978 and living in the U.S.), poet and academic
- Peter Cooley, American poet and academic
- Martha Collins, American
- Fanny Howe, American poet, novelist and short story writer
- Angela De Hoyos
- Gary Hyland
- Ronald Koertge, American
- Paul Mariani, American poet and academic
- David W. McFadden
- Sterling D. Plumpp, African-American
- Pattiann Rogers, American
- Andrew Waterman, English poet and academic
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
- March 4 – Hamlin Garland (born 1860), American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
- March 7 – Edwin Markham (born 1852), American poet.
- March 23 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (born 1887), Showa period Japanese poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
- August 21 – Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat
- September 26 – William Henry Davies (born 1871), Welsh-born poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time
- October 11 – Taneda Santōka 種田 山頭火 pen name of Taneda Shōichi 種田 正 (born 1882), Japanese author and haiku poet (surname: Taneda)
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x 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
- ^ a b Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ 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
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