Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
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).
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]
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]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Mehr Lal Soni Zia FatehabadiNoor-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.
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
^
abJoshi, 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.
^
abBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^
abcdefAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^
abcFitts, 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.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
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).
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]
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]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Mehr Lal Soni Zia FatehabadiNoor-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.
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
^
abJoshi, 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.
^
abBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^
abcdefAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^
abcFitts, 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.