1932 in poetry

none 1932 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.http://poetry.about.com/od/ac/a/hamillhartcrane.htm Janet Hamill Janet Hamill The Lonesome Death of Hart Crane About.com Poetry 2014-04-02 2012-02-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20120215121719/http://poetry.about.com/od/ac/a/hamillhartcrane.htm dead July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham. In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country T. S. Eliot begins his 1932–33 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism). Works published in English Canada Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" https://web.archive.org/web/20120905023413/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works 2012-09-05 , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. E. J. Pratt, Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. W. W. E. Ross, Sonnets.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books India, in English Govind Krishna Chettur: Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods, Mangalore: Basel Mission BookshopNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 The Temple tank and Other Poems, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop The Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka, Secunderabad: self-publishedVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems, Madras: Shakti Karyalayam Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East, Karachi: Bharat 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 United Kingdom thumb|Dream Drift by a Young Lover, by Aeneas Francon Williams, published 1932, 1st Edition copy Æ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its FountainsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Edmund Blunden, Halfway House W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study Roy Campbell, Pomegranates W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930–31 Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917–1932, criticism Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen Aeneas Francon Williams, Dream Drift, by a Young Lover S. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biography W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom United States W. H. Auden, The OratorsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Sterling Brown, Southern Road Mary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador Marianne Moore, "No Swan So Fine" Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus Allen Tate, Poems: 1928–1931 Sara Teasdale, A Country House William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head Other in English Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Works published in other languages France André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancsAuster, 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 Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loups 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 Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"Das, 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 Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature Other Indian languages Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi D. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem (masnavi) published for the first time; includes introductory material Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali Rabindranath Thakur, Punasca, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian anthologist and academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma, translator, te Salivahana gatha saptasati saramu, translated from the Prakrit of Hāla's Gaha Sattasai into Telugu, in "ataveladi" meter; according to academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das, writing in 1995, the work "is still considered a model for poetical translation" K. Shankara Bhat, Nalme, three long narrative poems in Kannada on tragic subjects: Honniya maduve ("Marriage of Honni"), depicting village life in coastal Karnataka; Madriya Cite ("Pyre of Madri"), on the tragic end of Madri, wife of Pandu Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry T. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit Spanish language Spain Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios ("Swords or/as Lips")Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 42, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas ("Expert in Moon Matters") María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia ("Elegy of Spain's Tradition") Latin America Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, PeruFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this edition was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649 Other languages Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth, Russia Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy Eugenio Montale, La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi; ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern), Greece Awards and honors Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Peter Redgrove (died 2003), English poet January 5 – Douglas Livingstone (died 1996), Malaysian-born South African poet January 19 – George MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish-born poet and novelist February 6 – Shankha Ghosh (died 2021), Bengali poet and critic February 12 – Hugh Fox, (died 2011), American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize March 18 – John Updike (died 2009), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writerLehmann-Haupt Christopher https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28updike.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=print John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Ordinary, Is Dead at 76 The New York Times 2009-01-28 2009-01-28 April 10 – Adrian Henri (died 2000), English member of the Liverpool poets April 11 – Bienvenido Lumbera (died 2021), Filipino poet, critic and dramatist May 6 – Alauddin Al-Azad (died 2009), Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academichttp://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=17882 Poet Alauddin Al Azad passes away The Daily Star 2009-07-04 2009-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20121006172902/http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=17882 2012-10-06 dead May 7 Jenny Joseph (died 2018), English poet Yadollah Royaee (died 2022), Iranian poet May 25 – Patrick Cullinan (died 2011), South African poet May 27 – Linda Pastan (died 2023), American poet June 18 – Geoffrey Hill (died 2016), English poet and academic at Boston University June 29 Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005), English teacher, poet and critic Ror Wolf (died 2020), German poet and writer July 10 – Martin Green (died 2015), English author, poet and publisher July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko (died 2017), Soviet Russian poet and writer July 21 – Marie-Claire Bancquart (died 2019), French poet and critic August 16 – Christopher Okigbo (died in Biafran War 1967), Nigerian poet September 18 – Henri Meschonnic (died 2009), French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician September 13 – Eugene Perkins (died 2023), African-American poet October 9 – Seda Vermisheva (died 2020), Soviet Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist October 17 – Rosemary Tonks (died 2014), English poet October 20 – Michael McClure (died 2020), American poet and playwright October 24 – Adrian Mitchell (died 2008), English poet and playwright October 27 – Sylvia Plath (suicide 1963), American-born poet and novelist (The Bell Jar) December 11 – Keith Waldrop (died 2023), American poet, prose stylist, visual artist; with wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press Also: Jergen Becker, German poetHofmann Michael Michael Hofmann Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 Lena Pappa (died 2025), Greek poet Linda M. Stitt (died 2020), Canadian poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 22 – Harriet Converse Moody, 74 (born 1857), American patron of the arts March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public April 8 – Hubert Church, 74 (born 1857), Australian poet April 27 – Hart Crane, 32 (born 1899), American poet, by suicide June 21 – حافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim, 60 (born 1871), Egyptian "poet of the Nile" August 29 – Raymond Knister, 33 (born 1899), Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accident October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61 (born 1870), Australian poet October 14 – أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64 (born 1868), Egyptian poet November 19 – Clinton Scollard, 72 (born 1860), American poet December 18 – Edmund Vance Cooke, 66 (born 1866), Canadian American poet See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry New Objectivity in German literature and art Notes 30em Category:20th-century poetry *