1930 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- 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 remained Auden's publisher for the rest of his life); English poet living and publishing in the United States
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work;[4] Irish poet published in France
- Julian Bell, Winter Movement
- Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley[4]
- Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden[4]
- Roy Campbell, a South African native published in the United Kingdom:
- Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
- Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
- Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
- T. S. Eliot:
- William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
- Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems[4]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918)[4]
- D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous[4]):
- Nettles[4]
- The Triumph of the Machine[4]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots[4]
- 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems[4]
- Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems[4]
- Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems[4]
- Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
- Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City[4]
- D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse
- W. H. Auden, Poems[6]
- Hart Crane, The Bridge[6]
- Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night[6]
- Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth[6]
- Robert Frost, Collected Poems[6]
- Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House[6]
- Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things[6]
- William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City[6]
- Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land[6]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts[6]
- Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos,[6] American poet writing in Europe
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April[6]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales[6]
- Allen Tate, Three Poems[6]
- Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night[6]
- Yvor Winters, The Proof[6]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- René Char, Ralentir travaux[9]
- Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France[10]
- Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet[11]
- Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919–1929[11]
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe[11]
- Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears[12]
- Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches[11]
- Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent[11]
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-language[13]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language[13]
- Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quartrians of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali[13]
- 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[13]
- Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted[13]
- T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship[13]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali[13]
Spanish language
- Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru[14]
- 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); Spain[15]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru[16]
Other
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1
- January 23 – Derek Walcott, Caribbean native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist writing in English
- February 28 – Bruce Dawe, 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, 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, Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
- May 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
- June 23 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer 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, English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
- November 16 – Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poet
- December 2 – Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poet
- Also:
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
Notes
- ↑ "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
- ↑ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- 1 2 Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ↑ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ "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, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ↑ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- 1 2 3 4 5 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
- ↑ Classe, 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
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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, 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
- ↑ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ↑ Fitts, 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
- ↑ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Hofmann, Michael, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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