1938 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- In Nazi Germany, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) banned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing.
[edit] Works published in English
- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry, criticism and anthology, (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976)
- Robin Hyde, New Zealand:
- Nor the Years Condemn
- The Godwits Fly
- Louis MacNeice, The Earth Compels
- Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, third series
- Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, dedicated "To Louis Zukofsky and Basil Bunting strugglers in the desert"
- William Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
- W.B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli"
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Nathan Alterman, Stars Outside (Israel)
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Armaghan-i-Hijaz ("Gift from Hijaz"), philosophical poetry book in Persian
- Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (Greek)
- Ramanayan Pathak, Sheshnan Kavyo (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[1]
- Emil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters, Germany (scholarship)[2]
[edit] Awards and honors
- Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 22 – Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
- March 18 – Michael S. Harper, African American
- March 24 – Ian Hamilton (died 2001), English literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher
- April 18 – Jwalamukhi జ్వాలాముఖీ , pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu (died 2008), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, writer and political activist
- May 9 – Charles Simic, American
- May 25 – Raymond Carver (died in 1988), American short-story writer and poet
- June 13 – John Newlove (died in 2003), Canadian
- July 19 – Dom Moraes (died in 2004), Indian writer, poet and columnist
- Date not known:
- Betty Adcock, American
- Tajal Bewas, pen name of Taj Mohammed Samoo, 70 (died 2008), bucolic Sufi poet, novelist, short-story writer, teacher and Pakistani government official[3]
- Peter Dale, English poet and translator
- Elke Erb, German[4]
- Julia Fields, African American
- Brendan Galvin, American
- Frances Horovitz English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry.
- Keroapetse Kgositsile
- Deena Linett
- Leslie Allan Murray
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Bengali) writer and poet
- Robert Phillips (poet), American poet and academic
- George Thaniel
- Askia Muhammad Toure, African American
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 1 — Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil
- April 15 — César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
- April 19 — Sir Henry Newbolt, English author and poet
- April 21 — Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal" [Urdu], and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" [Persian]) 70, Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, who wrote in Persian and Urdu, and praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
- June 26 — James Weldon Johnson African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems, and collections of folklore
- October 27 — Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
- December 7 — Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ Khaskheli, Jan, id=151776 "Tajal Bewas passes away", The News of Karachi, Pakistan, December 14, 2008, retrieved same day
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006











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