March 28 –
Spanish poet
Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall.
April 3 –
French poet
Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "
Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach
Vichy France. It is published by
Éditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazine La France libre. Thousands of copies are parachuted into
Occupied France by aircraft of the British
Royal Air Force.[4]
French poet
André Breton delivers a lecture entitled "Situation du surealisme entre les deux guerres" at Yale University.[8]
Works published
Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney, David and Other Poems, the title piece, David, a long, narrative poem, was one of the most frequently taught poems in
Canadian schools for decades[6]Governor General's Award,
1942.[9]
Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
October 5 –
Nick Piombino,
American poet, essayist and psychotherapist, sometimes associated with
Language poets because of his frequent appearance in the seminal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine early in his poetic career
October 11 –
William Corbett, American poet, essayist, editor, educator and publisher (died
2018)
February 2 –
Daniil Kharms (born
1905), early
Soviet-era
surrealist and
absurdist poet, writer, dramatist and founder of
Oberiu poetry school, probably of starvation in his Leningrad prison asylum cell
May 11 –
Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born
1886),
Taishō and early
Shōwa periodJapanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara)
May 29 –
Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子
pen name of Yosano Shiyo (born
1878), late
Meiji period,
Taishō period and early
Shōwa periodJapanese poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan (surname: Yosano)
^"Diseuse in Debut Here - Marianne Lorraine Presents 'One Woman Theatre' at Town Hall Critical review of Marianne Lorraine and John Serry". The New York Times. 1 March 1942. p. 36.
ProQuest106170249.
^"La poésie de la résistance" (in French). copiedouble.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06. One of the poems is Liberté, printed on leaflets, it is distributed in mass since it is parachuted by the RAF in thousands of copies, in crates with weapons, in the French
maquis.
^
ab"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002,
ISBN978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
^
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
^Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 182 Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
^
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.
^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 edition was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 621
March 28 –
Spanish poet
Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall.
April 3 –
French poet
Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "
Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach
Vichy France. It is published by
Éditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazine La France libre. Thousands of copies are parachuted into
Occupied France by aircraft of the British
Royal Air Force.[4]
French poet
André Breton delivers a lecture entitled "Situation du surealisme entre les deux guerres" at Yale University.[8]
Works published
Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney, David and Other Poems, the title piece, David, a long, narrative poem, was one of the most frequently taught poems in
Canadian schools for decades[6]Governor General's Award,
1942.[9]
Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
October 5 –
Nick Piombino,
American poet, essayist and psychotherapist, sometimes associated with
Language poets because of his frequent appearance in the seminal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine early in his poetic career
October 11 –
William Corbett, American poet, essayist, editor, educator and publisher (died
2018)
February 2 –
Daniil Kharms (born
1905), early
Soviet-era
surrealist and
absurdist poet, writer, dramatist and founder of
Oberiu poetry school, probably of starvation in his Leningrad prison asylum cell
May 11 –
Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born
1886),
Taishō and early
Shōwa periodJapanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara)
May 29 –
Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子
pen name of Yosano Shiyo (born
1878), late
Meiji period,
Taishō period and early
Shōwa periodJapanese poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan (surname: Yosano)
^"Diseuse in Debut Here - Marianne Lorraine Presents 'One Woman Theatre' at Town Hall Critical review of Marianne Lorraine and John Serry". The New York Times. 1 March 1942. p. 36.
ProQuest106170249.
^"La poésie de la résistance" (in French). copiedouble.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06. One of the poems is Liberté, printed on leaflets, it is distributed in mass since it is parachuted by the RAF in thousands of copies, in crates with weapons, in the French
maquis.
^
ab"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002,
ISBN978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
^
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
^Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 182 Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
^
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.
^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 edition was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 621