// Frost Medal inaugurated by the Poetry Society of America John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate T.S. Eliot - Ash Wednesday W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T.S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remained Audens publisher for the rest of his life) Samuel Beckett... // John Betjeman, Mount Zion Edmund Blunden publishes Wilfred Owens poems Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Red Roses for Bronze Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems February 2 — Judith Viorst, American author known for her childrens books and poetry April 19 — Etheridge Knight, (died 1991), an African-American... See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1930 in literature, other events of 1931, 1932 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1934 in literature, other events of 1935, 1936 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1935 in literature, other events of 1936, 1937 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Events

• Black Mountain College founded as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracted poets who became known as the Black Mountain School of poetry.
• Gregory Grigson, founds New Verse (1933-39)

This article is in need of attention. ... The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ...

Works published

• T.S. Eliot’s 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard published under the title The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. Lectures he delivers at the University of Virginia, are later published in 1934 as After Strange Gods
• W. H. Auden, The Dance of Death
• Cecil Day-Lewis, The Magnetic Mountain
• A. E. Housman, Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge, "The Name and Nature of Poetry"
• D. H. Lawrence, Last Poems
• Stephen Spender, Poems
• William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... hello i am w. ... Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was an Anglo-Irish poet. ... Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... D.H. Lawrence at age 21 (1906) David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, with his output spanning novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. ... Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. ... W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ... The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1933. ...

Awards

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. ...

Births

• January 25 — Alden Nowlan, (died 1983) Canadian poet
• date not known:
  • Gerald William Barrax,
  • Maureen Duffy, British poet, playwright and novelist.
  • Kevin Ireland,
  • John Edward Mackenzie Lucie-Smith
  • Joe Rosenblatt,
  • Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
  • Robert Sward, Canadian and American poet, novelist and writer

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Deaths

• January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
• January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
• April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
• December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator
• date not known:
  • John Jay Chapman, American essayist, poet, author and lawyer
  • Henry Van Dyke, American poet, author, educator, and clergyman

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Poets in Twentieth Century Poetry, an Anthology chosen by Harold Monro, 1933 edition

Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) (January 9, 1881 - October 27, 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the Dymock poets. He was born in Ashton-on-Mersey, and educated at Manchester University. ... Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. ... John Alford (1686—29 September 1761), founder of the professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity in Harvard University, died at Charlestown Sept. ... Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was one of six children of Edward White Benson, a late nineteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury. ... Robert Laurence Binyon (August 10, 1869 at Lancaster – March 10, 1943 at Reading, Berkshire) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. ... Edmund Charles Blunden (November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974), although not one of the top trio of English World War I writers, was an important and influential poet, author and critic. ... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) was a British poet and writer. ... Gordon Bottomley (1874 – 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. ... Bridges on the cover of Time in 1929 Robert Seymour Bridges (October 23, 1844–April 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913. ... A statue of Rupert Brooke in Rugby Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 – April 23, 1915) was a British poet best known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War. ... Samuel Butler Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902) was a British writer best known for his satire Erewhon. ... Roy Campbell is the name of: a South African poet a jazz musician a character in the Metal Gear series of video games. ... Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874–June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. ... Richard Thomas Church (1893 - 1972) was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received volumes of autobiography. ... Padraic Colum, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1959 Padraic Colum (December 8, 1881 - January 11, 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. ... Alfred Edgar Coppard ( January 4 1878 – January 13, 1957) was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet. ... Frances Crofts Cornford (nee Darwin; 1886-1960) was an English poet. ... John Davidson is also the name of a former ice hockey player. ... William Henry Davies (1871 - September 26, 1940), was a Welsh poet and writer; he was one of the most popular poets of his time. ... Miles Jeffery Game Day (1896 - 1918) was an English war poet, killed in an air battle towards the end of World War I over the sea. ... It has been suggested that The Listeners be merged into this article or section. ... Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (October 22, 1870 – March 20, 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was the third son of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and Sibyl Montgomery. ... John Drinkwater (June 1, 1882 - March 25, 1937) was an English poet and dramatist. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 ? January 4, 1965) was a poet, dramatist and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. ... Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley (1848 - 1914) and her niece and ward Emma Edith Cooper (1862 - 1913). ... James Elroy Flecker (November 5, 1884- January 3, 1915) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. ... Frank Stuart Flint (December 19, 1885 - February 28, 1960) was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. ... John Freeman (1880 – 1929) was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full time. ... Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902—19 December 1989) was an English novelist and poet. ... Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878-1962) was a British poet, associated with World War I but also the author of the popular Flannan Isle. ... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. ... Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. ... Ralph Hodgson (September 9, 1871 - November 3, 1962) was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. ... Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 - June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. ... Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 - 28 September 1917) was an English writer, who during his informal tenure from 1909 as critic for The New Age, edited by A. R. Orage, exerted a notable influence on London modernism. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer who emigrated to the United States, living in Los Angeles until his death in 1963. ... James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his childrens books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pooks Hill (1906... D.H. Lawrence at age 21 (1906) David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, with his output spanning novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. ... Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27th April 1904-22nd May 1972) was a British poet. ... John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. ... Ronald Allison Kells Mason (1905-1971) was described by Allen Curnow as New Zealands first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet. He was born in Auckland and educated at Auckland Grammar School, where he met A. R. D. Fairburn. ... Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was an English poet. ... Alice Meynell (September 22, 1847 _ November 27, 1922) was an English writer and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. ... 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See also

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