// 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... // T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral Louis MacNeice, Poems John Masefield, Box of Delights Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order W. B. Yeats, A Full Moon in March Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush January 30 — Richard Brautigan, writer and poet January... 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. ... See also: 1938 in literature, other events of 1939, 1940 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. ... 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). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Events

• James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time;

James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 - November 12, 1997) was an American poet, publisher, and man of letters. ... New Directions Publishers was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin after graduating from Harvard University. ...

Works published

Anthologies

• 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.
• Michael 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
• W. B. Yeats edits The Oxford Book of Modern Verse

New Directions Publishers was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin after graduating from Harvard University. ... Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a major American Modernist poet. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest 20th century poets writing in English. ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... 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. ... Michael Roberts may refer to: Michael Roberts (1902-1948), a British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster Michael Roberts, (1908-1997) a British historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish history. ... hello i am w. ... 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. ... Robert Frost (1941) Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... 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. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ...

By individual poets

• W. H. Auden, Look, Stranger!
• T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-35, including "Burnt Norton"
• Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well
• Dylan Thomas, Twenty-Five Poems, including "And Death Shall have No Dominion"

hello i am w. ... 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. ... Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. ... Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ...

Criticism

• F. R. Leavis, Revaluation rejects Milton, Spenser, and Shelley and praises Donne, Pope, Hopkins, Eliot, and others

Frank Raymond Leavis (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. ... John Milton, English poet John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ... Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (c. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. ... John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. ... Alexander Pope, an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism and Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. ...

Awards

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Robert Peter Tristam Coffin (1892-1955) was a writer, poet and professor at Wells College (1921-1934) and Bowdoin College (1934-1955). ...

Births

• March 31 — Marge Piercy, American poet, novelist, and social activist
• April 6 — John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright who originally published under the name of "J.P. Clark"
• June 27 — Lucille Clifton, African-American poet and feminist
• June 26 — Elisabeth Harvor, Canadian novelist and poet
• July 9 — June Jordan (died 2002), African-American political activist, writer, poet, and teacher
• November 4 — C. K. Williams, American poet
• December 1 — George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
• date not known:
  • J. H. Prynne, British poet, writer, key figure in the British Poetry Revival, and a major contributor to The English Intelligencer
  • John Robert Colombo, Canadian poet, editor and humorist
  • Jayne Cortez, African-American poetry poet
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Clarence Major
  • Christopher Wiseman
  • David Young (writer), editor and co-founder of FIELD Magazine

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Deaths

• January 18 — Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907
• April 30 — A. E. Housman, 77, English poet and writer and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad
• June 11 — Robert E. Howard, 30, American writer and poet, committed suicide
• June 14 — G. K. Chesterton English writer, journalist, poet, biographer and Christian apologist
• August 19 — Federico García Lorca, 38, 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.
• September 26 — Harriet Monroe, 75, American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts best known as founder and long time editor of Poetry magazine, of a cerebral haemorrhage
• December 28 — John Cornford, 21, English Communist poet, in the Spanish Civil War
• December 31 — Miguel de Unamuno, 72, Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher
• date not known — Govinda Kristna Chettur

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See also

Poetry Portal

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• List of years in poetry