1937 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- February 1 – First broadcast on Sweden) of the continuing programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day").[1]
- Summer – In Nazi Germany, German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels; Heinrich Himmler, however, steps in to reprimand Willrich and defends Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output being dismissed as irrelevant).
- Iowa Writers' Workshop is founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa
- Poetry Magazine, remaining in that post until 1949.
- Poems of
- W. B. Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936).[3]
Works published in English
Canada
- Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.[4]
- E. J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan.[5] Governor General's Award 1937.
India, in English
- Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[6]
- Bombay: New Book Co.[7]
- Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature ( Poetry in English ), London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom[8]
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, Spain[9]
- W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry[9]
- George Barker, Calamiterror[9]
- John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse,[9] including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
- Edmund Blunden, A Ballad of Titles, An elegy, and other poems and Uneasy Quiet
- Walter de la Mare, This Year, Next Year, illustrations by Harold Jones, Faber
- David Jones, In Parenthesis, frontispiece by author, Faber
- Charles Madge, The Disappearing Castle[9]
- Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places[9]
- Enoch Powell, First Poems, Oxford: Blackwell[10]
- Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published[9]
- Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[8]
- Stevie Smith, A Good Time Was Had By All[9]
United States
- W. H. Auden, with Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland[11]
- R. P. Blackmur, From Jordan's Delight[11]
- Louise Bogan, the Sleeping Fury[11]
- Richard Eberhart, Reading the Spirit[11]
- Robert Hillyer, A Letter to Robert Frost and Others[11]
- Robinson Jeffers, Such Counsels You Gave to Me[11]
- Josephine Johnson, Year's End[11]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight[11]
- Ezra Pound, The Fifth Decad of Cantos[11]
- May Sarton, Encounter in April[11]
- Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the author's first book; for children
- The Man With the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling", Knopf[12]
- Allen Tate, Selected Poems[11]
Other in English
- New Zealand
- New Zealand
- Australia
Works published in French
Canada
- Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Regards et jeux dans l'espace [13]
France
- Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommes[14]
- Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old[14]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celeste[15]
- Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis[15]
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz[15]
- Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur[15]
- Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille[15]
- Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973[15]
Works published in other languages
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
- Mallavarapu Visveswara Rao, Madukila, notable for its style, sentiments and various metrics[16]
- Rabindranath Tagore:
- Samar Sen, Kayekti Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language[16]
- Sudhindranath Dutta, Krandasi[16]
Telugu
- Telugu[16]
- Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry[16]
- Telugu; posthumous[16]
- Telugu[16]
- Telugu[16]
Urdu
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia FatehabadiNoor-e-Mashriq (The Light of the East) - Collection of nazms, geets and sonnets published by Jyoti Prasad Gupta, Jyoti Printing Works, Esplanade, Delhi in 1937.
Other Indian languages
- Gautama Buddha[16]
- D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada[16]
- Sindhi-language[16]
- Kashmiri[16]
- Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Meitei poem[16]
- Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada[16]
- Maithili[16]
- Hindi[16]
Spanish language
Peru
- Xavier Abril, Descubrimiento del alba[17]
- Peru[18]
- Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Así bajaron los perros[17]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Waino[17]
Other in Spanish
- Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; Spain[19]
Other
Awards and honors
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post which was later called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Joseph Auslanderappointed this year (he would serve until 1941)
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Edwin Markham
- Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Fable of the Goats, E. J. Pratt[20]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1:
- John Fuller, English poet and author
- Dilwar Khan (died 2013), Bengali poet
- January 14 – Dutchpoet, novelist and translator
- February 21 – Mervyn Morris, Jamaican poet
- February 27 – Germanpoet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic
- April 10 – Russianpoet
- April 23 – Coleman Barks, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
- April 30 – Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
- May 11 – Michael Heller, American poet
- May 21 – Glen Sorestad, Canadian poet
- June 8 – Gillian Clarke, native Welsh, English-language poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh)
- June 10 – Susan Howe, American poet and critic closely associated with the Language poets
- July 3 – Milovan Danojlić, Serbian poet and essayist (died 2022)
- July 10 – German poet[21]
- July 29 – Eleanor Wilner, American poet and editor
- August 3
- Marvin Bell (died 2020), American poet
- Beats
- September 14 – Douglas Oliver (died 2000), British poet
- October 11 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, critic and translator
- November 4 – W. Dabney Stuart, American poet
- November 9
- Roger McGough, English poet
- Tamilpoet
- November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
- November 19 – Alistair Campbell
- December 1 – Eugene B. Redmond, African-American poet
- December 31 – Germanpoet
- Also:
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Lebanese-born French poet, novelist and beauty queen
- Parijat, पारिजात, Bishnu Kumari Waiba (died 1993), Nepalese novelist and poet
- John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 8 – Dutchpoet
- June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (born 1901?), Malagasy poet writing in French; suicide
- July 6 – Scottish poet and labourer; killed in the Spanish Civil War
- July 18 – Julian Bell (born 1908), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members include his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, writer Quentin Bell; and his half-sister, writer and painter Angelica Garnett; killed in the Spanish Civil War
- August 11 – Edith Wharton (born 1862), American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
- September 8 – Anna Hempstead Branch (born 1875), American poet
- October 22 – Shōwa period Japanesepoet (surname: Nakahara)
- December 26 – Ivor Gurney (born 1890), English composer and poet; tuberculosis while suffering delusional insanity
- December 29 – Don Marquis (born 1878), American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
- Also – Constance Woodrow (born 1899), English-born Canadian poet
See also
Notes
- ^ "Dagens dikt: historik" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio.
- ^ By Thomas H. Johnson, in The New England Quarterly.
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael; Boland, Eavan (1971). W. B. Yeats. Thames and Hudson Literary Lives. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 121–122.
- ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ "Works by Enoch Powell". enochpowell.net.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ^ Hayne, David M. (2011-02-10), "Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau", The Canadian Encyclopedia, archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
- ^ a b Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ a b c Fitts, Dudley. (1947). Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions; London: The Falcoln Press ("Printed in U.S.A."). pp. 589, 621, 649.
- ^ "José Santos Chocano". Jaume University. Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
- ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards" Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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