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1934 poetry literature
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Events
April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
September – T. S. Eliot (with his first love, Emily Hale) visits the English Cotswolds manor house and garden which gives rise to his poem Burnt Norton.
September 21 – The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning, is released in the United States; remade in 1957, less successfully
Bengali poet Buddhadeb Bosu marries singer and writer Protiva Bose (née Ranu Shome).
The University Review is founded at the University of Kansas City. The publication is later called New Letters.
West Indian Review founded."Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009.
Works published in English
Canada
Kenneth Leslie, Windward Rock: Poems. New York: Macmillan.Burris Devanney, Sandra Campbell and Domenico Di Nardo. "Kenneth Leslie: A Preliminary Bibliography https://web.archive.org/web/20120402133843/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol05/devanney2.htm 2012-04-02 ." Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews No.05 (Fall/Winter 1979), UWO, Web, Apr. 15, 2011
Tom MacInnes, High Low Along.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Frederick George Scott, Collected Poems. Vancouver: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd."Frederick George Scott https://web.archive.org/web/20120501025903/http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm 2012-05-01 ," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
Charles G.D. Roberts, The Iceberg and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Leather Bottle
Seranus, Penelope and Other Poems (Toronto: Author).Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets https://web.archive.org/web/20110106061322/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/hidden_rooms/susan_frances_harrison.htm 2011-01-06 , Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
India, in English
Sri Aurobindo, Six Poems ( Poetry in English ), Chandernagore: Rameshwar and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Cross Road ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shama's Publishing HouseVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
P. R. Kaikini, Flower Offerings ( Prose poems in English ); Bombay: Bombay Book DepotVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
E. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, Green; anthology; published in the United KingdomJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth 2009-08-30 , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
United Kingdom
Edmund Blunden, Choice or ChanceCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Maud Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns of Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination, criticism
Lilian Bowes Lyon, The White Hare
Roy Campbell, Broken Record, the first version of his autobiography; South African native published in the United Kingdom
Helen Cruickshank, Up the Noran Water, Scottish poet
Lawrence Durrell, Transition
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
William Golding, Poems
Pauline Gower, Piffling Poems for Pilots
I. M. and H. Hubbard, The War Resisters, and Other Poems
T. L. W. Hubbard, Poems, 1925–1934
John Lehmann, The Noise of History
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Stony Limits and Other Poems, Scottish poet
Ruth Pitter, A Mad Lady's Garland, preface by Hilaire Belloc
Nan Shepherd, In the Cairngorms
William Soutar, The Solitary Way
E. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English, London: Longmans, Green; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Stephen Spender, Vienna
Dylan Thomas, 18 Poems, including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
James Agee, Permit Me VoyageLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
W. H. Auden, Poems
Paul Engle, American Song
John A. Lomax, compiler, with Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wine From These Grapes
Tillie Olsen, I Want You Women up North to Know
George Oppen, Discrete Series
Ezra Pound:
Eleven new Cantos: XXXI–XLI
Homage to Sextus Propertius, LondonAckroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
"Make It New"
Edward Arlington Robinson, Amaranth
Jesse Stuart, Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow
William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems 1921–1931
Yvor Winters, Before Disaster
Other in English
R. A. K. Mason, No New Thing, New ZealandAllen Curnow Web page https://web.archive.org/web/20080417205209/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html 2008-04-17 at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
Shaw Neilson, Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, edited and with introduction by R. H. Croll, Melbourne, Lothian, Australia
W. B. Yeats, The King of the Great Clock Tower, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France
Louis Aragon, Hourra l'ouralAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8
André Breton, L'Air de l'eau
René Char, Le Marteau sans maîtreBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, La Rose publique
Alphonse Métérié:
Petit maroc II
Cophetuesques
Benjamin Péret, De derrière les fagots
Jules Supervielle, Les Amis inconnus
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:
Hindi
Gopal Sharan, Umanga, on themes of patriotism and love of natureDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
Mahadevi Varma, Nirja
Rameshvar Shukla, Kiran Bela
Kashmiri
Fazil Kashmiri, Saz-e-Chaman
Mahjoor, "Nera Ha Sanyas Lagith", a poem published in a special number of Martand
Man Ji Suri, Krishna Avtar, a masnavi on Krishna, but also including devotional lyrics in the vatsan form
Telugu
Durbhaka Rajesekhara Satavadhani, Rana Pratapa Simha Caritra, called one of the "five modern epics", or Panca Kavya's in Telugu poetry; written in 5 cantos, with about 2,000 verses, in classical style, based on the Annals and Andiquities of Rajasthan by James Dodd
Meka Ramachandra Appa Rao, translator, Amaruka, translation from English of Omar Khayyam's Rubbayit
Tripurancni Ramaswami, Sutapuranam, poem criticizing Aryan mythologies; written in a classical style
Pingali Lakshmikantam and Katuri Venkateshvara Rao, Saundaranandamu, epic in nine cantos, based on a Sanskrit poem by Asvagosha
Other Indian languages
D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Murtu Mattu Kamakasturi, long, philosophical poem in 11 parts and 15 love songs; influenced by A.E.'s The Candle of Vision; Kannada
Govinda Krishna Chettur, The Shadow of God, 37 sonnets in Kashmiri and a short prefatory poem in English; modeled on Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam
Khavirakpan, Smaran mangal Kavya, humorous poems in Meitei
Kirpa Sagar, Dido Jamval, epic on the actions of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Jammu area; Punjabi
Masti Venkatesa Iyengar, Malara, a book that introduced the sonnet form into Kannada poetry; the 82 sonnets approach different subjects, including day-to-day life and the change of seasons, from a very religious point of view and in an uncomplicated, conversational style
N. Balamani Amma, Amma, on a mother's love and a child's innocence; Malayalam
Narayan Murlidhar Gupte, writing under the pen name "Bee", Phulanci Onjal ("Handful of Flowers"), showing the influence of Kesavsut; Marathi
Pramathanath Bisi, Pracin Asami Haite, sonnets written from 1924 to 1927 from the most prolific published sonnet-writer in Bengali; a companion volume, Bracin Parasik Haite, was published in the late 1960s
Umashankur Joshi, Gangotri, Gujarati-language
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Savarakaranci Sphuta Kavita, including "Sagaras" ("To the Sea"), and patriotic poems such as "Maze Mrtypatra" ("My Will") and "Maranonmukh Sayyevar" ("Upon the death-bed"); by a Marathi revolutionary
Other languages
Vladimir Cavarnali, Poesii (Poems)
José Santos Chocano, Primicias de Oro de Indias, Peruhttp://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm José Santos Chocano Jaume University 2011-08-29 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm 2012-08-23
Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor, Ghileà romanè (anthology)
Martinus Nijhoff, Awater, Netherlands
Alejandro Peralta, El Kollao, PeruFitts, Dudley, ed. (1947). Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions (also London: The Falcoln Press, but printed in U.S.) p. 635.
Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem (Message), Portugal
Heiti Talvik, Palavik (Fever), Estonia
Ernst Volkman, ed., Deutsche Dichtung im Weltkrieg, Germany
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Laurence Whistler
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Muthaffar al-Nawab (died 2022) Iraqi poet and political criticوفاة الشاعر العراقي الكبير مظفر النواب ar
January 6 – John Wieners (died 2002), American lyric poet
January 22 – Sugathakumari (died 2020), Indian Malayalam female poet and activist
February 10 – Fleur Adcock (died 2024), expatriate New Zealand poet and editor who lives much of her life in England
February 18 – Audre Lorde (died 1992), African-American writer, poet and activist
February 27 – N. Scott Momaday (died 2024), Native American poet and writer
March 31 – Kamala Surayya (died 2009), Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam, her native language, Indian English
March 20 – David Malouf (died 2026), Australian poet and writer
April 11 – Mark Strand (died 2014), American poet
April 12 – Anselm Hollo (died 2013), Finnish-American poet and translator also resident for eight years in the United Kingdom, where his poems are included in British poetry anthologies.
May 10 – Jayne Cortez (died 2012), African-American poet
June 15 – Hettie Jones, born Hettie Cohen (died 2024), American poet, writer and first wife of Amiri Baraka
July 1 – James Liddy (died 2008), Irish American poet
July 13 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright who in 1986 is the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
July 17 – Rainer Kirsch (died 2015), German writer and poet
July 18 – Walt McDonald, American poet and academic
July 20 – Henry Dumas (died 1968), African-American writer and poet
August 5 – Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic and farmer
August 6 – Diane di Prima (died 2020), American poet associated with the Beats
September 2 – Jack Agüeros (died 2014), American community activist, poet, writer and translator
September 7 – Sunil Gangopadhyay (died 2012), Indian Bengali-language poet
September 9 – Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet, playwright and children's book author associated with the Black Arts Movement
September 21 – Leonard Cohen (died 2016), Canadian-born poet, singer-songwriter and novelist
September 23 – M. Travis Lane, American-Canadian poet
October 7 – Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones (died 2014), African-American poet, playwright, essayist and music critic whose first wife is poet Hettie Jones
November 7 – Beverly Dahlen, American poet
November 15 – Ted Berrigan (died 1983), American poet and political activist
November 19 – Joanne Kyger (died 2017), American poet
November 25 – Shakti Chattopadhyay (died 1995), Bengali poet
November 28 – Ted Walker (died 2004), English poet, short story writer, travel writer, television and radio dramatist and broadcaster
December 17 – Binoy Majumdar (died 2006), Bengali poet
December 29 – Forugh Farrokhzad (died 1967), Iranian poet and film director
Also:
Muhammad al-Maghut (died 2006), Syrian Ismaili poet
Stephen Berg, American
Sugatha Kumari, Indian, Malayalam-language poetPaniker Ayyappa https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&q=%22Balijepalli+Lakshmikantham%22&pg=PA411 Modern Malayalam Literature George, K. M. Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology 231–255 Sahitya Akademi 1992 9788172013240 2009-01-10
Heather Spears, Canadian-born poet, novelist and artist
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Andrei Bely (born 1880), Russian novelist, poet and critic
March 7 – Ernst Enno (born 1875), Estonian
March 25 – Arthur Alfred Lynch (born 1861), Australian-born, Irish and British civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath who served as a member of the House of Commons after being convicted of treason, sentenced to death, having his sentence reduced and then being released (for having recruited volunteers for the Boer side during the Boer War, in South Africa); towards the end of World War I raised his own Irish battalion
June 14 – John Gray (born 1866), English
July 4 – Hayim Nahman Bialik (born 1873), Hebrew
August 19 – Jean Blewett (born 1862), Canadian
September 26 – Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi (born 1870), late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese journalist and writer of senryū (short, humorous verse) (surname: Inoue)
December 3 – Catherine Pozzi (born 1882), French poet and woman of letters
John Ferrar Holms (born 1897), British critic
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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