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January – Canadian Poetry Magazine first published by the Canadian Authors Association, with E. J. Pratt's active involvement. It becomes associated with more traditional poetry, very popular in Canada at this time.May – In Nazi Germany, the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacks the expressionist and experimental poetry of German Gottfried Benn as degenerate, Jewish and homosexual.August 18 – 38-year-old Spanish dramatist and poet Federico García Lorca is among those arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and is never seen alive again.James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishing in New York, which publishes many modern poets for the first time.A version of J. R. R. Tolkien's influential lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" is published in Proceedings of the British Academy.W. B. Yeats begins delivering broadcast lectures on the BBC (the lectures continue into 1937), and makes recordings of his own verse.W. E. Collin, The White Savannahs, the first collection of criticism of contemporary poetry in Canada from a modernist perspective; written by a professor of French at the University of Western OntarioKenneth Leslie, Such a Din! Poems. Halifax: McCurdy.New Provinces, first anthology of modernist poetry in Canada, including work by F. R. Scott, E. J. Pratt, Robert Finch, A. J. M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein.Marjorie Pickthall, The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall, 2nd edition. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart). Posthumously publishedCharles G. D. Roberts, Selected Poems of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts. (Toronto: Ryerson).Frederick George Scott, PoemsHarindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Bharatha Shakthy NilayamNilima Devi, The Hidden Face ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Futurist Publishing HouseP. R. Kaikini, Songs of a Wanderer (Poetry in English) ; Bombay: New Book Co.M. S. Nirmal, Song of Immortality (Poetry in English), Lahore: Model Electric PressBrajendranath Seal, The Quest Eternal' (Poetry in English) 'Subho Tagore, Peacock Plumes ( Poetry/in English ),New Zealand
Ursula Bethell, Time and Place: poems by the author of 'From a garden in the Antipodes, Christchurch: Caxton PressRobin Hyde:Passport to HellCheck To Your KingW. H. Auden, Look, Stranger!Julian Bell, Work for the WinterRoy Campbell, Mithraic EmblemsCecil Day-Lewis, Noah and the WatersT. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–35, including "Burnt Norton", first of the Four QuartetsJohn Gawsworth edits anonlymously Edwardian Poetry, Book One (anthology)A. E. Housman, More PoemsJames Joyce, Collected PoemsPatrick Kavanagh, Ploughman, and Other PoemsF. R. Leavis, Revaluation: tradition & development in English poetry rejects Milton, Spenser, and Shelley and praises Donne, Pope, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, and others (criticism)Louis MacNeice, translation from the original Ancient Greek, The Agamemnon of AeschylusRobert Nichols, A Spanish TriptychRuth Pitter, A Trophy of Arms, preface by James StephensMichael Roberts edits The Faber Book of Modern Verse, which praises poets such as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot and ignores poets like Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy (anthology)Sacheverell Sitwell, Collected Poems, introductory essay by Edith SitwellWilliam Soutar, A Handful of EarthDylan Thomas, Twenty-five Poems, including "And death shall have no dominion"Edward Thomas, Collected Poems, Faber and FaberW. B. Yeats, editor, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 (anthology)Conrad Aiken, Time in the RockW. H. Auden, Look, Stranger! (Anglo-American)Stephen Vincent Benét, Burning CityLilian Bowes Lyon, Bright Feather FadingE. E. Cummings, 1/20Emily Dickinson, Unpublished PoemsPaul Engle, Break the Heart's AngerJohn Gould Fletcher, The Epic of ArkansasRobert Frost, A Further RangeRobinson Jeffers, The Beaks of EaglesArchibald MacLeish, Public SpeechEdgar Lee Masters, Poems of PeopleMarianne Moore, The Pangolin and Other VerseOgden Nash, The Bad Parents' Garden of VerseNew Directions publishes its first book and its first "annual", New Directions in Prose and Poetry with contributions from Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams and othersDorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well: Collected PoemsKenneth Patchen, Before the GraveFrederic Prokosch, The AssassinsLizette Woodworth Reese, The Old House in the CountryCharles Reznikoff, Separate Way, including "The Socialists of Vienna" (Objectivist Press)Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes, Harcourt Brace JovanovichWinfield Townley Scott, Elegy for RobinsonWallace Stevens:Ideas of Order, includes "Farewell to Florida," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Academic Discourse at Havana," "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery," and "A Postcard from the Volcano"), Knopf, enlarged from the 1935 editionOwl's Clover, Alcestis Press (contents later incorporated into Opus Posthumous 1952)John Hall Wheelock, Poems, 1911–1936William Carlos Williams, Adam & Eve & The CityRex Ingamells, Forgotten People published in Adelaide; including "Garrakeen"; AustraliaPaul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, Les Yeux fertilesFrancis Jammes, Sources, Paris: Le DivanPierre Jean Jouve, HélèneHenri Michaux, Voyage en Grand GarabagneBenjamin Péret, Je sublimeSaint-John Perse, Poème pour Valery Larbaud, Liège: A la Lampe d'Aladdin; FranceIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Mohitlal Majumdar, Smara-garal, BengaliRabindranath Tagore, in these two works as well as in some others of the mid- and early 1930s, the author introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das:PatrputSyamaliMaulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, "Kulam-i Jauhar", an Urdu poem edited and with an introduction by Abudul Majid DaryabadiSir Muhammad Iqbal, Zarb-i-Kalim, also rendered "Zarbe Kalim" (or The Rod of Moses), philosophical poetry book in Urdu; the author's third collection in the Urdu language; the 183 poems include some ghazals; divided into six parts, including Islam and Muslims, Education, and Fine Arts (Iqbal also published a book in Persian this year)P. T. Narasimhachar (also known as "Pu.Ti.Na."), Mandaliru, 23 lyrics in Sanskritized UrduTranslation, commentary and crical appreciation of Pas Cheh Bayad Kard and Masnavi Musafir in Urdu by Dr Elahi Bakhsh Akhtar Awan, publishers University Book Agency Peshawar Pakistan, 1960.
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai Ramanan, Malayalam-language poem about the life, love and death of his friend, the poet Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (1909–1936)Haridasa Siddhantavagish, Sankara Sambhavam Khandakavya, a mythological poem in SanskritIdappalli Raghavan Pillai, Maninadam, MalayalamKulachandra Gautam, Prapanica Carca, religious verses in Nepali by an eminent Sanskrit scholar and translatorMahadevi Varma, Sandhyagit, considered significant lyrics in the Chayavadi (Indian romanticism) tradition; HindiMahjoor, Taran-e Vatan, KashmiriMohan Singh, Save Pattar, Punjabi romantic lyricsSir Muhammad Iqbal, Pas Chih Bayad Kard ay Aqwam-i-Sharq (or What should then be done O people of the East), philosophical poetry book in Persian (Iqbal also published a book in Urdu this year; see above)Sumitranandan Pant, Yugant, Hindi poems reflecting the author's transition from the Chayavad (Indian romanticism) tradition to PragtivadSuryakant Tripathi Nirala, Gitika, including poems on God, the beauty of nature, women, national awakening and philosophy; HindiRafael Méndez Dorich, Dibujos animados (Lima)Enrique Peña Barrenechea, Elegía a Bécquer y retorno a la sombraCésar Vallejo, Nómina de huesos ("Payroll of Bones")José Varallanos, Primer cancionero choloFederico García Lorca (killed this year; see deaths, below):Diván del Tamarit (Spanish for "The Diván of Tamarit") written this year, will be published in 1941);Sonetos del amor oscuro ("Sonnets of Dark Love") published this yearPrimeras canciones ("First Songs") published this yearJorge Guillén, Cántico, second, enlarged edition, with 125 poems in seven sections (first edition, with 75 poems, 1928)Miguel Hernández, El rayo que no cesaPedro Salinas, Razón d'amor ("Reason for Love")Luis Felipe Vivanco, Cantos de primavera ("Songs of Springtime")Gottfried Benn, Ausgewählte Gedichte ("Selected Poems"); when first published in May, the book contains two poems that are deleted for the next edition in November : "Mann und Frau gehen durch die Krebsbaracke" and "D-Zug". The vast majority of the first editions are collected and destroyed.Paul la Cour, Dette er vort Liv ("This Is Our Life"), DenmarkMartinus Nijhoff, Het Uur U, NetherlandsMillosh Gjergj Nikolla ('Migjeni'), Vargjet e lira ("Free Verses"), suppressed by government censors; enlarged edition with two poems deleted published in 1944, AlbaniaCesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca ("Hard Work"), shortened by four poems deleted by Fascist censors; enlarged edition nearly double in size published in 1942; Florence: Solaria, ItalyAugust Sang, Üks noormees otsib õnne, EstoniaAwards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange HolinessDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 24 – John Robert Colombo, Canadian poet, editor and humoristMarch 31 – Marge Piercy, American poet, novelist and social activistApril 6 – John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright originally publishing under the name "J. P. Clark"May 28 – Fred Chappell, American poet, author and academicJune 24 – J. H. Prynne, English poet, writer, academic, key figure in the British Poetry Revival and a major contributor to The English IntelligencerJune 26 – Elisabeth Harvor, Canadian novelist and poetJune 27 – Lucille Clifton, African-American poet and feministJuly 9 – June Jordan (died 2002), African-American political activist, writer, poet and teacherJuly 11 – Al Mahmud, Bengali poetNovember 4 – C. K. Williams (died 2015), American poetNovember 17 – Tarapada Roy (died 2007), Bengali poet, essayist and short-story writer known for his satirical sense of humourNovember 25 – William McIlvanney (died 2015), Scottish novelist, short story writer and poetNovember 27 – Dahlia Ravikovitch (died 2005), Israeli poetDecember 1 – George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian and biographerDecember 4 – Ken Smith, (died 2003), English poet, academic and an editor of the quarterly Stand from in 1963 to 1972December 17 – Frank Martinus Arion (died 2015), Curaçaoan novelist and poetDecember 27 – Sandra Gilbert, American poet, critic and academicAlso:Stewart Conn, Scottish poet and playwrightSandra Hochman, American poetRashid Hussein (died 1977), Palestinian Arabic poetBrendan Kennelly, Irish poet and novelistClarence Major, American poet, novelist and painterChristopher Wiseman, English-born Canadian poetDavid Young, American poet and translator, editor and co-founder of FIELD magazineBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, 70 (born 1865), English author and poet, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1907March 3 – Govinda Krishna Chettur, 37 (born 1898), Indian poet writing in EnglishMarch 6 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 31 (born 1905), Peruvian-born poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927)April 30 – A. E. Housman, 77 (born 1859), English poet, writer and classical scholar, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire LadJune 11 – Robert E. Howard, 30 (born 1906), American pulp fiction writer and poet, suicideJune 14 – G. K. Chesterton, 62 (born 1874), English writer, journalist, poet, biographer and Catholic apologistJuly 4 – Edappally Raghavan Pillai, 27 (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, suicideAugust 19 – Federico García Lorca, 38 (born 1898), Spanish dramatist, poet, painter, pianist, composer and emblematic member of the Generation of '27, killed by Nationalist partisans at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (see "Works published" above)September 26 – Harriet Monroe, 75 (born 1860), American editor, scholar, literary critic and patron of the arts best known as founder and longtime editor of Poetry magazine, of a cerebral haemorrhageOctober 5 – J. Slauerhoff, 38 (born 1898), Dutch poet and novelist, of aggravated tuberculosisDecember 28 – John Cornford, 21 (born 1915), English Communist poet, in the Spanish Civil WarDecember 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, 72 (born 1864), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopherAlso:Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (born 1859), Indian, Malayalam-language poetJamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, 73, Arab poet, philosopher and champion of women's rights 
