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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

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

Notes