Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
April 23 - Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.April 26 - 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.July - W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that countryT. S. Eliot begins his 1932-33 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.E. J. Pratt, ''Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.W.W.E. Ross, Sonnets.Govind Krishna Chettur:Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission BookshopThe Temple tank and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission BookshopThe Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence ( Poetry in English ), Mangalore: Basel Mission BookshopBaldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary ( Poetry in English ), Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette PressTheodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka ( Poetry in English ), Secunderabad: self-publishedManjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti KaryalayamNanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East ( Poetry in English ), Karachi: Bharat Publishing HouseÆ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its FountainsEdmund Blunden, Halfway HouseW. H. Auden, The Orators: An English studyRoy Campbell, PomegranatesW. H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poemsLawrence Durrell, Ten PoemsT. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticismThomas Hardy, Collected PoemsJulian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a BiologistF. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernistsHugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other PoemsWilliam Plomer, The Fivefold ScreenS. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biographyW. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United KingdomW. H. Auden, The OratorsSterling Brown, Southern RoadMary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse dramaRobinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other PoemsArchibald MacLeish, ConquistadorEdward Arlington Robinson, NicodemusAllen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931Sara Teasdale, A Country HouseWilliam Carlos Williams, The Cod HeadKenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, AustraliaW. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United KingdomAndré Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancsPaul Éluard, La Vie immédiateTristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loupsIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodesMahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literatureAdibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman letteringAnil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; MarathiD. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; KannadaMahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; KashmiriMathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral traditionMaulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory materialPremendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; BengaliRabindranath 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; BengaliRallapalli Anantha Krishna 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"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 PanduShyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetryT. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and PakritVicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios ("Swords or/as Lips")Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas ("Expert in Moon Matters")María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia ("Elegy of Spain's Tradition")Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, PeruBoris Pasternak, The Second Birth, RussiaSir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine ComedyEugenio 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; ItalyGiorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern), GreeceAwards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering StoneDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 – Peter Redgrove (died 2003) British poetJanuary 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelistFebruary 6 – Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and criticFebruary 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), U.S. novelist and poet who was a founder of the Pushcart Prize.March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writerMay 6 – Alauddin Al-Azad, (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academicMay 7 – Jenny Joseph, English poetMay 25 – Patrick Cullinan, South African poetMay 27 – Linda Pastan, American poetJune 18 – Geoffrey Hill (died 2016), English poet and academic at Boston UniversityJune 29 – Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005), English teacher, poet and criticJuly 10 – Martin Green (died 2015), English author, poet and publisherAugust 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967 fighting for the independence of BiafraSeptember 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoreticianOctober 17 – Rosemary Tonks, British poetOctober 20 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwrightOctober 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwrightOctober 27 – Sylvia Plath (suicide 1963), 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:Jergen Becker, GermanDouglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in MalaysiaEugene Perkins, African American poetLinda M. Stitt, Canadian poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the publicApril 8 – Hubert Church, 74 (born 1857), Australian poetApril 27 – Hart Crane, 32 (born 1899), American poet, by suicideAugust 29 – Raymond Knister, 33 (born 1899), Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accidentOctober 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61 (born 1870), Australian poetOctober 14 – أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64 (born 1868), Egyptian poetNovember 19 – Clinton Scollard, 72 (born 1860), American poetDecember 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66 (born 1866), Canadian American poetحافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim (born 1871), Egyptian "poet of the Nile" 