1931 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets. It features poetry by Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, George Oppen, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification".
- George Oppen and his wife, Mary Oppen found To Publishers in Le Beausset, France; Louis Zukofsky is editor.
- Beacon magazine founded in Trinidad (lasts until 1933)[1]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] United Kingdom
- John Betjeman, Mount Zion; or, In Touch with the Infinite[2]
- Laurence Binyon, Collected Poems[2]
- Edmund Blunden:
- Themis[2]
- publishes Wilfred Owen's poems
- Robert Bridges, Shorter Poems[2]
- Roy Campbell, The Georgiad,[2] a satire openly attackng the Bloomsbury Group; a South African native published in the United Kingdom
- C. Day Lewis, From Feathers to Iron[2]
- T. S. Eliot:
- Coriolan
- Triumphal March[2]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1926–1930[2]
- Aldous Huxley:
- John Lehmann, A Garden Revisited, and Other Poems[2]
- AE, pen name of George William Russell, Vale, and Other Poems[2]
- Osbert Sitwell, The Collected Satires and Poems[2]
- William Soutar, Conflict[2]
- Arthur Symons, Jezbel Mort, and Other Poems (sic)[2]
- Humbert Wolfe, Snow[2]
[edit] United States
- Franklin P. Adams, Christopher Columbus[3]
- Conrad Aiken:
- E. E. Cummings, W (ViVa)[3]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Red Roses for Bronze
- Langston Hughes, The Negro Mother[3]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview[3]
- Ogden Nash:
- Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes[3]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Mathias at the Door[3]
- Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," "The Comedian as the Letter C" "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Sunday Morning," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, revised from the 1923 edition".[4]
- Mark Van Doren, Jonathan Gentry[3]
- Yvor Winters, The Journey[3]
[edit] Other in English
- Norman Cameron, Guianese Poetry: 1831–1931[1]
- A.R. Chida, editor, An Anthology of Indo-Anglian Verse with an Introductory Note to Each Set of Selections, Hyderabad: A. R. Chida, 113 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English[5]
- Kenneth Slessor, Harley Matthews and Colin Simpson, Trio: A Book of Poems, Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, Australia
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] 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:
- Atul Prasad Sen, Gitigunja, complete collection of songs by this Bengali poet and composer[6]
- Bal Krisna Rav, Kaumudi, Indian, Hindi-language[6]
- Bhagavadacharya, Mohanapancadhydyi, Sanskrit poem on Mahatma Gandhi[6]
- Chanda Jha, Candra Padyavali, edited by Baladev Mishra, Maithili poetryMaithili[6]
- D. K. Kelkar, Kavyalocan, a treatise in Marathi on literary theory; discusses the nature of poetry, figures of speech, the nature of poetic pleasure and Indian literary concepts[6]
- K. V. Simon, Veda Viharam, long poem based on the book of Genesis; India, Malayalam language[7]
- Mahjoor, Nav Baharo Myani Locaro Ho, Kashmiri[6]
- Mayadhar Mansinha, Dhupa, poems in this collection remained very popular as of the mid 1990s; Oriya[6]
- Mohan Singh Diwana, Jagat Tamasa, Punjabi (a 1927 novel by Charan Singh Sahid has the same title)[6]
- Raja K. K., Baspanjali, Malayalam work by a poet of the Vallathol school[6]
- Siyaram Sharan Gupta, Atmostsarga, on the self-sacrifice of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi in the cause of communal peace; Hindi[6]
- Tallapragada Visvasundaramma, Ratri, including many patriotic poems; Telugu[6]
- Umashankar Joshi, Vishwashanti, also spelled "Visvasanti"[6] (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[8]
- V. Seetharamayya, Gitagalu, the author's first book of poetry, with navodaya lyrics more intellectual than most; Kannada[6]
[edit] Other languages
- Federico García Lorca, Poema del cante jondo ("Poem of Deep Song"), Spain
- Giorgos Seferis, Στροφή ("Strophe") (Greece)
[edit] Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster
- January 14 – Ahmed Faraz, pseudonym of Syed Ahmad Shah (died 2008), Pakistani Urdu-language poet, son of Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, a leading traditional poet[9]
- February 2 – Judith Viorst, American author known for her children's books and poetry
- April 15 – Ruth Fainlight, Swedish poet, short story writer, translator and librettist
- April 19 – Etheridge Knight, (died 1991), an African-American poet
- May 16 – Peter Levi, (died 2000), professor of poetry at Oxford University and an English poet, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and critic
- May 27 – O. N. V. Kurup, Indian, Malayalam language
- June 13 – Jay Macpherson, Canadian lyric poet and scholar; she is a member of the "mythopoeic school of poetry"
- June 21 – Patricia Goedicke, poet
- July 28 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist
- December 15 – Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎, Japanese poet and translator (surname: Tanikawa)
- Also:
- P'Bitek, African poet
- Sonja Dunn
- Makoto Ooka 大岡信, Japanese poet and literary critic
- Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish writer, poet and translator
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 16 – Harold Edward Monro, 54, British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
- April 2 – Katharine Tynan, 70 (born 1861), Irish poet, novelist and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"
- April 10 – Khalil Gibran, 48, poet artist, and writer born in Lebanon who spent much of his productive life in the United States
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet
- December 5 – Vachel Lindsay (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay), 42 (born 1879, American poet and early advocate of jazz poetry, a suicide by poison
- Also:
[edit] See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry", p xviii, in Brenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521587129, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Pandya, Haresh, "Ahmed Faraz, Outspoken Urdu Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, The New York Times, September 1, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008 ("He was earlier reported to have died while being treated in a Chicago hospital after a fall in Baltimore, but he returned to his homeland, where he died.")
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