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Overview of the events of 1930 in poetry
Overview of the events of 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 remains Auden's publisher for the rest of his life)
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]
Basil Bunting ,
Redimiculum Matellarum , his first book of poems, published in
Milan
Roy Campbell ,
South African native published in the United Kingdom:
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]
Brian Howard , God Save the King
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
Samuel Beckett , Whoroscope ,
Irish writer published in the United Kingdom
Una Marson , Tropic Reveries , the first "noted" collection of poems by a
West Indian woman
[7]
Brian O'Nolan , "Ad Astra", in
Blackrock College Annual ,
Irish writer (his first published work)
Quentin Pope , editor,
Kowhai Gold , anthology of
New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)
[8]
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 quatrains 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]
León de Greiff , Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento (Segundo Mamotreto) ,
Columbia
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 5 –
Jesús Rosas Marcano (died
2001 ), Venezuelan poet
January 23 –
Derek Walcott (died
2017 ),
Caribbean
St. Lucian -born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
February 15 –
Bruce Dawe (died
2020 ),
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 (died
2015 ),
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 (died
2020 ),
Caribbean native of
Barbados , writer, poet, dramatist and academic
May 12 –
Mazisi Kunene (died
2006 ),
South African poet
May 23 –
Friedrich Achleitner (died
2019 ),
Austrian architect and poet
June 9 –
Roberto Fernández Retamar (died
2019 ),
Cuban poet and literary critic
June 11 –
Roy Fisher (died
2017 ),
English poet and jazz pianist
June 23 –
Anthony Thwaite (died
2021 ),
English poet, writer and editor, 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 (died
2019 ),
English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
November 16 –
Chinua Achebe (died
2013 ),
Nigerian writer and poet
November 19 –
Bernard Noel (died
2021 ), French poet and writer
November 20 –
Bai Hua (died
2019 ),
Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist
December 2 –
Jon Silkin (died
1997 ),
English poet
December 27 –
Attoor Ravi Varma (died
2019 ),
Indian
Malayalam poet and translator
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
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Biographical Sketch ," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
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^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse , revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
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Wayback Machine at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
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"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
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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
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^ 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
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^ 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,
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^ 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
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Michael, Hofmann , ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology . Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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