1930 in poetry

none 1930 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him. Works published Canada Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson)."Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009. Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. E. J. Pratt: The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan. Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts. W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books United Kingdom Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remains Auden's publisher for the rest of his life) Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work;Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Irish poet published in France Julian Bell, Winter Movement Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan Roy Campbell, South African native published in the United Kingdom: Adamastor Poems Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography Elizabeth Daryush, Verses T. S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday Marina Translator (and writer of the introduction), Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: FaberWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" https://web.archive.org/web/20090221144323/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/perse-bibl.html 2009-02-21 at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009 William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918) Brian Howard, God Save the King D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous): Nettles The Triumph of the Machine Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse United States W. H. Auden, PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Hart Crane, The Bridge Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth Robert Frost, Collected Poems Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos, American poet writing in Europe Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales Allen Tate, Three Poems Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night Yvor Winters, The Proof Other in English Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish writer published in the United Kingdom Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Brian O'Nolan, "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual, Irish writer (his first published work) Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837 Works published in other languages France René Char, Ralentir travauxBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, FranceHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967 Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poetAuster, 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 Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919–1929 Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appearsClasse, Olive, editor, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English, "Henri Michaux" article, p 945, Volume 2, publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009 Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent 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: Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-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 Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quatrains of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali Spanish language Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, 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 book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 595 León de Greiff, Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento (Segundo Mamotreto), Columbia Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988) León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante ("Verses and Prayers of the Walker"), second volume (first volume, 1920); SpainDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, 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 book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649 Other Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967 Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications J. Slauerhoff, Serenade, Dutch Awards and honors John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 Adunis or "Adonis" (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born Arabic poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France Jean-Pierre Duprey (died 1959), French poet and sculptor January 5 – Jesús Rosas Marcano (died 2001), Venezuelan poet January 23 – Derek Walcott (died 2017), Caribbean St. Lucian-born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist February 15 – Bruce Dawe (died 2020), Australian poet March – Alvin Aubert (died 2014), African-American poet and scholar March 21 – Roger-Arnould Rivière (suicide 1959), French poet March 26 – Gregory Corso (died 2001), American poet April 8 – Miller Williams (died 2015), American poet, translator and editor May 3 – Juan Gelman (died 2014), Argentine poet May 8 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist May 11 – Kamau Brathwaite (died 2020), Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic May 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet May 23 – Friedrich Achleitner (died 2019), Austrian architect and poet June 9 – Roberto Fernández Retamar (died 2019), Cuban poet and literary critic June 11 – Roy Fisher (died 2017), English poet and jazz pianist June 23 – Anthony Thwaite (died 2021), English poet, writer and editor, married to the writer Ann Thwaite August 17 – Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984 September 25 – Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse October 10 – Harold Pinter (died 2008), English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature October 24 – Elaine Feinstein (died 2019), English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator November 16 – Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poet November 19 – Bernard Noel (died 2021), French poet and writer November 20 – Bai Hua (died 2019), Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist December 2 – Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poet December 27 – Attoor Ravi Varma (died 2019), Indian Malayalam poet and translator Also: Tony Connor, English poet and playwright Adolph Endler, GermanHofmann Michael Michael Hofmann Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 Brian Higgins (died 1965), British poet, mathematician and rugby league player Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 2 – D. H. Lawrence (born 1885), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis April 10 – Alfred Williams (born 1877), English "hammerman poet" April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicide April 21 – Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet Laureate April 29 – Maria Polydouri (born 1902), Greek poet, from tuberculosis See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry New Objectivity in German literature and art Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *