This page indexes the individual year in poetry, the decade in poetry and the century in poetry pages. ... // W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin. ... // Black Mountain College founded as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracted poets who became known as the Black Mountain School of poetry. ... // The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully T. S. Eliot, The Rock George Oppen, Discrete Series Dylan Thomas, Eighteen Poems, including The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives... // James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time; New 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 others. ... // • Iowa Writers Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa Dr. Seuss publishes his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street John Betjeman, Continual Dew, including The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel David Jones, In Parenthesis Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works... // Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976) Louis MacNeice, The Earth Compels W.B. Yeats, New Poems, including Lapis Lazuli Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky February 22 — Ishmael Reed, American... 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. ... See also: 1936 in literature, other events of 1937, 1938 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1937 in literature, other events of 1938, 1939 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 Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // Public flight demonstration of an airplane by Alberto Santos-Dumont in Paris, November 12, 1906. ... // Caitlin wants nathans penis mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... Year 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. ... 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 display full calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Events

• George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958.

George Oppen, a picture now used as the cover for the recently published Selected Poems George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. ... // Queens Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: Conrad Aiken National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958 April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British dub poet March...

Works published

• Constantine Cavafy, Ποιήματα (Piimata, or 'Poems of C.P. Cavafy')
• E.E. Cummings, No Thanks
• T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
• William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral
• Federico García Lorca, Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Spanish for "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"), and Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems")
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bal-i Jibril (Wings of Gabriel) in Urdu, inspired by his 1933 visit to Spain
• Louis MacNeice, Poems
• John Masefield, Box of Delights
• Giorgos Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα (Tale of Legends)
• Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order
• William Carlos Williams, An Early Martyr and Other Poems
• W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March

Cavafy, around 1900 in Alexandria, Egypt Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (April 29, 1863 - April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet who is among the 20th centurys most important literary figures, though he is relatively little known in the English speaking... Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962) was an American poet and writer. ... No Thanks is a 1935 collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. ... William Empson Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt and fitting heir to their mode of witty, fiercely heterodox and imaginatively rich criticism. ... Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. ... Sir Muhammad Iqbāl (Urdu/Persian: ‎ ) (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938) was an Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded as among the greatest in modern times. ... Bal-i-Jibril (Urdu: با ل جبر یل; or Gabriels Wing; published in Urdu, 1935) was a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of Indian Subcontinent. ... 12th-century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel (גַּבְרִיאֵל, Standard Hebrew Gavriʼel, Latin Gabrielus, Greek , Tiberian Hebrew Gaḇrîʼēl, Arabic جبريل Jibrīl or Jibrail, literally Master, of God, i. ... Like other languages, the history of Urdu poetry does not have a firm starting point and shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani mix. ... // Black Mountain College founded as a progressive, experimental educational institution which attracted poets who became known as the Black Mountain School of poetry. ... Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. ... 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. ... Cover of Complete Poems of Seferis Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) (February 19, 1900 – September 20, 1971) was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. ... Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955 in poetry) was a major American Modernist poet. ... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. ... William Butler Yeats (IPA: ) (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, who signed his works W. B. Yeats. ...

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush

The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ...

Births

• January 30 — Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• January 27 — Donald Michael Thomas, English novelist, poet, and translator from Cornwall known as "D.M. Thomas"
• May 14 — Roque Dalton, (died 1975), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics
• June 1 — Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator, and editor
• June 6 — Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
• July 29 — Pat Lowther, Canadian poet killed by her husband in 1975
• August 24 — Rosmarie Waldrop, German born American poet & translator ( primary English translator of Edmond Jabès }
• August 25 — Charles Wright, American poet.
• September 10 — Mary Oliver, American poet
• November 15 — Gustaf Sobin, American expatriate poet & novelist (lived his final 40 years in France)
• December 1 — George Bowering December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
• December 29 — Yevgeny Rein (Евгений Рейн), Russian poet
• date not known:
  • Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and author whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
  • Michael Benedikt
  • Russell Edson, American poet
  • David R. Slavitt
  • Jay Wright, African-American poet

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Deaths

• April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, 65, American poet and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• July 17 — George William Russell, 68, Anglo-Irish supporter of Irish nationalism, critic, poet, and painter who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy
• August 11 — Sir William Watson (poet), English traditionalist poet popular for the political content of his verse
• September 18 — Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 60, African American poet, journalist and political activist, and a part of the Harlem Renaissance, her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet
• November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, 42, Portuguese poet and writer, from cirrhosis of the liver
• December 17 — Helena Forrest, 79, American poet
• date not known — Lizette Woodworth Reese

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See also

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