1932 in poetry

1932 in poetry

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Events

*W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
*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 Norton lectures at Harvard (published in 1933 as "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism").

Works published

* W. H. Auden, "The Orators"
* Boris Pasternak, "The Second Birth"
* Sterling Brown, "Southern Road"
* T. S. Eliot, "Sweeney Agonistes and Selected Essays"
* Thomas Hardy, "Collected Poems"
* Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, "The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist"
* Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The "Javed Nama" ("Book of Eternity") in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
* F. R. Leavis, " New Bearings in English Poetry" attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
* Giorgos Seferis, "Στέρνα (The Cistern)"
* William Carlos Williams, "The Cod Head"
* W. B. Yeats, "Words for Music Perhaps

Awards and honors

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: "The Flowering Stone"

Births

* January 19 — George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
* March 18 — John Updike, American novelist, writer and poet
* May 7 - Jenny Joseph, English poet
* June 18 — Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
* October 20 — Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
* October 24 — Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
* October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American poet
* Date not known:
** Jergen Becker, German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
** Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
** Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
** Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967fighting for the independence of Biafra
** Linda Pastan, American poet
** Peter William Redgrove, British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays
** Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
** Rosemary Tonks, British poet

Deaths

* March 16 - Harold Monro, 53, British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
* April 27 — Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
* October 5 — Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
* date not known:
** Hubert N. W. Church
** Edmund Vance Cooke
** Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
** Clinton Scollard

ee also

*Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

New books

References


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