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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events Works published Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised: - W. H. Auden English poet living at this time in the United States:
- Sir John Betjeman, Old Lights for New Chancels
- Cecil Day Lewis:
- T. S. Eliot:
- The Waste Land, and Other Poems, The Waste Land first published in 1923[6]
- East Coker, published in The New English Weekly, Easter Number; published in book form in June; republished in Four Quartets 1944[6]
- William Empson, The Gathering Storm[6]
- Roy Fuller, Poems[6]
- Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland and Sorley MacLean, also known as Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 17 Poems for 6d. in Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English[6]
- Rayner Heppenstall, Blind Men's Flowers are Green[6]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, editor, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
- Louis MacNeice, The Last Ditch[6]
- Stephen Spender, Selected Poems[6]
- Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
- Henry Treece, 38 Poems[6]
- W. B. Yeats, Last Poems and Plays, published posthumously[6]
- Conrad Aiken, And in the Human Heart[7]
- W. H. Auden English poet living at this time in the United States:
- Leonard Bacon, Sunderland Capture[7]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, Nightmare at Noon[7]
- Witter Bynner, Against the Cold[7]
- John Ciardi, Homeward to America[7]
- E. E. Cummings, 50 Poems[7]
- Richard Eberhart, Song and Idea[7]
- Kenneth Fearing, Collected Poems[7]
- Robert Hayden, Heart-Shape in the Dust[7]
- Phyllis McGinley, A Pocketful of Wry[7]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Make Bright the Arrows[7]
- Ogden Nash, The Face is Familiar[7]
- Ezra Pound, Cantos LII–LXXI[7]
- Frederic Prokosch, Death at Sea[7]
- Kenneth Rexroth, In What Hour[7]
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Song in the Meadow[7]
Other in English Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised: 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: - Premendra Mitra, Samrat[11]
- Rabindranath Tagore:
- Nabajatak, with themes and images from urban and industrial life (such as radios, railways and airplanes), a sharp contrast to the rural and natural themes of traditional Bengali poetry[11]
- Rogsayyay, written during his illness and with many images of sickness and worry, but without despondancy (see also Arogya 1941, called a "companion volume" with a contrasting mood)[11]
- Sanai, poems with a nostalgic tone[11]
- Chelebela, autobiography concerning the author's childhood[11]
- Samar Sen, Grahan o Anyana Kabita, Indian, Bengali-language[11]
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Padatik, poems reflecting Marxist ideology and politics in general, with a combination of lyricism and sloganeering; the consonance and speech-like rhythm of these poems became popular and influential in Bengali poetry[11]
- V. K. Gokak, also known as "Vinayaka", Samudra Gitagalu, poems about the potency and loveliness of the sea; the poems experiment with new diction and meters, including free verse[11]
Other Indian languages - Ahad Zargar, Tarana-e-Ahad Zargar, Sufistic ghazals and vatsans; Kashmiri[11]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Asamiya Sahityar Buranjit Bhumuki, a comprehensive review of early Assamese literature; criticism[11]
- K. V. Jaganathan, Tamilkkavyankal, literary history of Tamil epics, compared to the traditions of Sanskrit poetry and world literature[11]
- Kavi Nhanalal, Kuruksetra, final part of a 12-canto, Gujarati epic about the war of the Mahabharat, written in poetic prose, intersperesed with songs (first canto published 1926)[11]
- Maiyilai Seeni Venkataswamy, Pauttamum Tamilum, literary history on the influence of Buddhism on Tamil culture and literature[11]
- N. M. Sant and Indira Sant, a poet and couple publishing together; N. M. Sant's poems show influences from Madhav Julian, Indira Sant's reflect folklore; Marathi[11]
- Prahlad Parekh, Bari Bahar, called a "milestone in the history of Gujarati poetry of the post-Ghandian era" by Indian academic Siser Kumar Das[11]
- Sankarambadi Sundarachari, Ma Telugu talliki malle pudanda, popular "prayer song" in Andhra, originally written for a film that was never completed, a record of the song was published, and its popularity led the government of Andhra Pradesh to declare it a prayer song to be sung along with Vandemataram [11]
Spanish language Other in Spanish Awards and honors "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - April 16 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (died 1975), German
- May 24 – Joseph Brodsky (died 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky in Russia, a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States (1991 1992)
- September 8 – Jack Prelutsky, American poet noted for his children's poems
- October 15 – Fanny Howe, American poet, novelist and short story writer and recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize[16]
- October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States (1997 2000)
- November 1 – William Heyen, American poet, editor, and literary critic
- December 14 – Carolyn Rodgers, (died 2010), American poet and a leading participant of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and founded one of the country's oldest and largest black-owned book publishers [17]
Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 5 – Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
- March 4 – Hamlin Garland (born 1860), American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
- March 7 – Edwin Markham (born 1852), American poet.
- March 23 – Minakami Takitar pen name of Abe Sh z (born 1887), Showa period Japanese poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
- August 21 – Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat
- September 26 – William Henry Davies (born 1871), Welsh-born poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time
- October 11 – Taneda Sant ka pen name of Taneda Sh ichi (born 1882), Japanese author and haiku poet (surname: Taneda)
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