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1937 poetry literature
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Events
February 1 – First broadcast on Sveriges Radio (Sweden) of the continuing programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day").http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2031&artikel=459027 Sveriges Radio Dagens dikt: historik Swedish
Summer – In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampoons 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
George Hill Dillon becomes editor of Poetry Magazine, remaining in that post until 1949.
Poems of colonial American pastor Edward Taylor (d. 1729) are first discovered and published.By Thomas H. Johnson, in The New England Quarterly.
W. B. Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936).Mac Liammoir Michael Eavan Boland W. B. Yeats https://archive.org/details/wbyeatshisworld00macl registration Thames and Hudson Thames and Hudson Literary Lives London 1971 121–122
Works published in English
Canada
Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
E. J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. Governor General's Award 1937.
India, in English
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti KaryalayamNaik, 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
P. R. Kaikini, This Civilization ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co.Vinayak 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
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 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
W. H. Auden, SpainCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry
George Barker, Calamiterror
John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse, 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
Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places
Enoch Powell, First Poems, Oxford: Blackwellhttp://www.enochpowell.net/works-by-enoch-powell.html2010/07/ Works by Enoch Powell enochpowell.netFebruary 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes
Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published
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
Stevie Smith, A Good Time Was Had By All
United States
W. H. Auden, with Louis MacNeice, Letters from IcelandLudwig, Richard M. Nault, Clifford A. Jr. Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 1986 New York Oxford University Press
R. P. Blackmur, From Jordan's Delight
Louise Bogan, the Sleeping Fury
Richard Eberhart, Reading the Spirit
Robert Hillyer, A Letter to Robert Frost and Others
Robinson Jeffers, Such Counsels You Gave to Me
Josephine Johnson, Year's End
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight
Ezra Pound, The Fifth Decad of Cantos
May Sarton, Encounter in April
Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the author's first book; for children
Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, and Other Poems, includes "The Man With the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved," and "The Men That Are Falling", Knopfhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6576 Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Poetry Foundation 2009-04-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20090302045600/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6576 2009-03-02 live
Allen Tate, Selected Poems
Other in English
Allen Curnow, Enemies: Poems 1934–36 (Caxton), New Zealand
Robin Hyde, Wednesday's Children, New Zealand
Seaforth Mackenzie, Our Earth, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia
Works published in French
Canada
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Regards et jeux dans l'espace David M. Hayne https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hector-de-saint-denys-garneau Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau The Canadian Encyclopedia 2011-02-10 live https://web.archive.org/web/20110716225729/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003165 2011-07-16 .
France
Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommesBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old
Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celesteAuster, 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
Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz
Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur
Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille
Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973
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
Rabindranath Tagore:
Khapchada, short, humorous and frivolous poems in the style of nursery rhymes
Chadar Chabi
Samar Sen, Kayekti Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language
Sudhindranath Dutta, Krandasi
Telugu
Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu
Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry
Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous
Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu
Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu
Urdu
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Noor-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
Anupa Sharma, Siddharth, a Hindi epic in 18 chapters on the story of Gautama Buddha
D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada
Devandas Kishinani, 'Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-languageDas, 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
Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri
Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Meitei poem
Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada
Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili
Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi
Spanish language
Peru
Xavier Abril, Descubrimiento del albaFitts, 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, Poemas de amor doliente, 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
Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Así bajaron los perros
Luis Fabio Xammar, Waino
Other in Spanish
Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; SpainDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 43, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
Other
Amir Hamzah, Nyanyi Sunyi, Dutch East Indies
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 Auslander appointed 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"Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards" https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 , Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
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 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman (died 2012), Dutch poet, novelist and translator
February 21 – Mervyn Morris, Jamaican poet
February 27 – Peter Hamm (died 2019), German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic
April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina (died 2010), Russian poet
April 23 – Coleman Barks (died 2026), American poet who, although he neither spoke nor read Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
April 30 – Tony Harrison (died 2025), 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 – Kurt Bartsch, German poetHofmann, Michael Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
July 18 – Roald Hoffmann, born Safran, Polish-born American theoretical chemist, poet and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
July 29 – Eleanor Wilner, American poet and editor
August 3
Marvin Bell (died 2020), American poet
Diane Wakoski, American poet associated with the "deep image" poets and the 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
S. Abdul Rahman (died 2017), Tamil poet
November 11 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and academic
November 19 – Meg Campbell (died 2007), New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
December 1 – Eugene B. Redmond, African-American poet
December 23 – Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Lebanese-born French poet, novelist and beauty queen (died 2026)
December 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
Also:
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 – Albert Verwey (born 1865), Dutch poet
April 21 – Saima Harmaja, (born 1913), Finnish poet
June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (born 1901?), Malagasy poet writing in French; suicide
July 6 – Alex McDade (born 1905), 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 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (born 1907), early Shōwa period Japanese poet (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
Poetry
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
Notes
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