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[edit] 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).
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Indian subcontinent in English
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
- Govind Krishna Chettur:
- Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press[1]
- Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems, Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[1]
[edit] United Kingdom
- AE, pen name of George William Russell]], Song and its Fountains[2]
- Edmund Blunden, Halfway House[2]
- W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study[2]
- Roy Campbell, Pomegranates[2]
- W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31[2]
- Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems[2]
- T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism[2]
- 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[2]
- William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen[2]
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems,[2] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] United States
- W. H. Auden, The Orators[3]
- Sterling Brown, Southern Road
- Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama[3]
- Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems[3]
- Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador[3]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus[3]
- Allen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931[3]
- Sara Teasdale, A Country House[3]
- William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head
[edit] Other in English
- W. W. E. Ross, Sonnets, Canada[4]
- Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] 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:
[edit] Hindi
- Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"[5]
- Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes[5]
- Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature[5]
[edit] Other Indian languages
- Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sansrkit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering[5]
- Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi[5]
- D. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada[5]
- Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri[5]
- Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition[5]
- Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory material[5]
- Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali[5]
- 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[5]
- Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sharma, translator, Salivahana gatha saptasati saramu, translated from the Prakrit of Hala'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"[5]
- 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[5]
- Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry[5]
- T. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit[5]
[edit] 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
- Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern), Greece
[edit] Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
- February 6 – Shankha Ghosh (born 1932), Bengali poet and critic
- 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[6]
- 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)
- Also:
- Alauddin Al-Azad, 77 (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic[7]
- Jergen Becker, German[8]
- 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
- Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist. With wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press.
[edit] 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 N. W. Church
- Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
- Clinton Scollard
[edit] See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e 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 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 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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