1937_in_poetry
1937 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1937 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
- February 1 – First broadcast on Sveriges Radio (Sweden) of the continuing programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day").[1]
- 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.[2]
- W. B. Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936).[3]
Canada
- Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders.[4]
- E. J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan.[5] Governor General's Award 1937.
India, in English
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam[6]
- P. R. Kaikini, This Civilization ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co.[7]
- 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 Kingdom[8]
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, Spain[9]
- W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry[9]
- George Barker, Calamiterror[9]
- John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse,[9] 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[9]
- Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places[9]
- Enoch Powell, First Poems, Oxford: Blackwell[10]
- Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published[9]
- 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[8]
- Stevie Smith, A Good Time Was Had By All[9]
United States
- W. H. Auden, with Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland[11]
- R. P. Blackmur, From Jordan's Delight[11]
- Louise Bogan, the Sleeping Fury[11]
- Richard Eberhart, Reading the Spirit[11]
- Robert Hillyer, A Letter to Robert Frost and Others[11]
- Robinson Jeffers, Such Counsels You Gave to Me[11]
- Josephine Johnson, Year's End[11]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight[11]
- Ezra Pound, The Fifth Decad of Cantos[11]
- May Sarton, Encounter in April[11]
- 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", Knopf[12]
- Allen Tate, Selected Poems[11]
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
Canada
- Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Regards et jeux dans l'espace [13]
France
- Jacques Audiberti, Race des hommes[14]
- Rene-Guy Cadou, Les Brancardiers de l'aube, the author's first book of poems, published when he was 17 years old[14]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Matière celeste[15]
- Max Jacob, Morceaux choisis[15]
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Dix-sept Poèmes de Milosz[15]
- Henri Michaux, Plume, précédé de Lointain intérieur[15]
- Pierre Reverdy, Ferraille[15]
- Philippe Soupault, Poésies Complètes 1917–1973[15]
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[16]
- Rabindranath Tagore:
- Samar Sen, Kayekti Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language[16]
- Sudhindranath Dutta, Krandasi[16]
Telugu
- Gangula Sayi Reddi, Kapu bidda, poems on the condition of farmers; Telugu[16]
- Gurram Jashuva, editor, Khanda Kavyamu or Jashuva Khandakavyalu, in seven volumes, published from this year to 1949; anthology of Telagu poetry[16]
- Peer Aziz Ullah Haqqani, Qissa-e-Mumtaz E Benazir, a large masnavi of Romantic mysticism; Telugu; posthumous[16]
- Srirangam arayanababu, Rudhirajyoti, Telugu[16]
- Vedula Satyanarayan Shastri, Dipavali, romantic lyrics, Telugu[16]
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[16]
- D. R. Bendre, also known as Ambikatanaya Datta, Sakhigita, the title poem is autobiographical; Kannada[16]
- Devandas Kishinani, 'Purab Sandes, Indian, Sindhi-language[16]
- Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Jang-e Amir Hamza, a Jangnama, based on an episode in the movement to spread Islam; Kashmiri[16]
- Hijam Anganhal Simha, Singel Indu, a long narrative Meitei poem[16]
- Manjewshwara Govinda Pai, Golgotha, long narrative poem on the final days of Jesus Christ, Kannada[16]
- Riddhinath Jha, Pravasi Mithiles, verses praising the Maharaja of Darbhanga; Maithili[16]
- Siyaramsharan Gupta, Bapu, on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi[16]
Spanish language
Peru
- Xavier Abril, Descubrimiento del alba[17]
- José Santos Chocano, Poemas de amor doliente, Peru[18]
- Manuel Moreno Jimeno, Así bajaron los perros[17]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Waino[17]
Other in Spanish
- Miguel Hernández, Viento del pueblo; Spain[19]
Other
- 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[20]
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, American poet who, although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, is nonetheless renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia
- April 30 – Tony Harrison, 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 poet[21]
- 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 31 – Nicolas Born (died 1979), German poet
- Also:
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Lebanese-born French poet, novelist and beauty queen
- Parijat, पारिजात, Bishnu Kumari Waiba (died 1993), Nepalese novelist and poet
- John Riley (died 1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 8 – Albert Verwey (born 1865), Dutch 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
- "Dagens dikt: historik" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio.
- By Thomas H. Johnson, in The New England Quarterly.
- Mac Liammoir, Michael; Boland, Eavan (1971). W. B. Yeats. Thames and Hudson Literary Lives. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 121–122.
- Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
- Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- "Works by Enoch Powell". enochpowell.net.[permanent dead link]
- Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
- "Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- Hayne, David M. (2011-02-10), "Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau", The Canadian Encyclopedia, archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
- Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- Fitts, 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". Jaume University. Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
- Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 43, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards" Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
- Hofmann, Michael, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.