Rex Ingamells and
Ian Tilbrook, Conditional Culture, published in Adelaide; a manifesto advocating a "fundamental break ... with the spirit of English culture" to free Australian art from "alien influences" and paying more attention to Aboriginal culture as well as the use of "only such imagery as is truly Australian"; the word "Jindyworobak", which they understood to be an Aboriginal term meaning 'to annex' or 'to join', they proposed as a symbol of the reorientation; the
Jindyworobak Movement resulted in at least 44 volumes of poetry and literary comment in addition to periodicals from this year through 1953; criticism[1]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Arvacin Kavyasahityanan Vaheno, five lectures on modern Gujarati poetry[12]
Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Ramyalokam, this verse work in
Telugu "is accepted as the manifesto of bhava kavita (romantic poetry)", according to academic Siser Kumar Das[12]
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Zia Ke Sau Sher (A Hundred Verses of Zia) - Collection of quotes published by Gajender Lal Soni, Mohan Building, near Lloyd's Bank, Delhi in 1938.
Urdu
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
September 22 –
Tajal Bewas,
pen name of Taj Mohammed Samoo (died
2008), bucolic
Sufi poet, novelist, short-story writer, teacher and
Pakistani government official[20]
April 21 – Sir
Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal" [Urdu] and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" [Persian]; born
1877), Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, writing in
Persian and
Urdu, 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 9 –
Ovid Densusianu (aka "Ervin"; born
1873),
Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
June 26 –
James Weldon Johnson (born
1871), 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
^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
^
abcAuster, 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
^
abBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^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
Rex Ingamells and
Ian Tilbrook, Conditional Culture, published in Adelaide; a manifesto advocating a "fundamental break ... with the spirit of English culture" to free Australian art from "alien influences" and paying more attention to Aboriginal culture as well as the use of "only such imagery as is truly Australian"; the word "Jindyworobak", which they understood to be an Aboriginal term meaning 'to annex' or 'to join', they proposed as a symbol of the reorientation; the
Jindyworobak Movement resulted in at least 44 volumes of poetry and literary comment in addition to periodicals from this year through 1953; criticism[1]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Arvacin Kavyasahityanan Vaheno, five lectures on modern Gujarati poetry[12]
Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Ramyalokam, this verse work in
Telugu "is accepted as the manifesto of bhava kavita (romantic poetry)", according to academic Siser Kumar Das[12]
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Zia Ke Sau Sher (A Hundred Verses of Zia) - Collection of quotes published by Gajender Lal Soni, Mohan Building, near Lloyd's Bank, Delhi in 1938.
Urdu
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
September 22 –
Tajal Bewas,
pen name of Taj Mohammed Samoo (died
2008), bucolic
Sufi poet, novelist, short-story writer, teacher and
Pakistani government official[20]
April 21 – Sir
Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal" [Urdu] and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" [Persian]; born
1877), Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, writing in
Persian and
Urdu, 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 9 –
Ovid Densusianu (aka "Ervin"; born
1873),
Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
June 26 –
James Weldon Johnson (born
1871), 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
^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
^
abcAuster, 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
^
abBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^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