1932 in poetry

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Events

April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.
July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.
In Vietnam, the New Poetry period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
T. S. Eliot begins his 1932–33 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University.

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.
E. J. Pratt, Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.
W. W. E. Ross, Sonnets.

India">Indian poetry">India, in English">Indian poetry in English">in English

Govind Krishna Chettur:
* Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
* The Temple tank and Other Poems, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
* The Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press
Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka, Secunderabad: self-published
Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems, Madras: Shakti Karyalayam
Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East, Karachi: Bharat Publishing House

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

Æ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains
Edmund Blunden, Halfway House
W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study
Roy Campbell, Pomegranates
W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930-31
Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems
Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems
T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917-1932, criticism
Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems
William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen
Aeneas Francon Williams, Dream Drift, by a Young Lover
S. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biography
W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States">American poetry">United States

W. H. Auden, The Orators
Sterling Brown, Southern Road
Mary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"
Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama
Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems
Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador
Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus
Allen Tate, Poems: 1928-1931
Sara Teasdale, A Country House
William Carlos Williams, ''The Cod Head''

Other in English

Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia
W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancs
Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate
Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, ''Où hoivent les loups''

Indian">Indian poetry">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:

Hindi">Hindi poetry">Hindi

Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"
Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes
Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature

Other Indian languages

Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering
Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi
D. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada
Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri
Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition
Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem published for the first time; includes introductory material
Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali
Rabindranath Thakur, Punasca, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian anthologist and academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali
Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma, translator, , translated from the Prakrit of Hāla's Gaha Sattasai into Telugu, in "ataveladi" meter; according to academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das, writing in 1995, the work "is still considered a model for poetical translation"
K. Shankara Bhat, Nalme, three long narrative poems in Kannada on tragic subjects: Honniya maduve, depicting village life in coastal Karnataka; Madriya Cite, on the tragic end of Madri, wife of Pandu
Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry
T. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit

Spanish language

Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios
Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas
María Pemán, ''Elegía de la tradición de Españia''

American poetry|Latin America]]

Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, Peru

Other languages

Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth, Russia
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
Eugenio Montale, La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi; Italy
Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα , Greece

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: ''The Flowering Stone''

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 2 - Peter Redgrove, English poet
January 5 - Douglas Livingstone, Malaysian-born South African poet
January 19 - George MacBeth Scottish-born poet and novelist
February 6 - Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and critic
February 12 - Hugh Fox,, American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize
March 18 - John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
April 10 - Adrian Henri, English member of the Liverpool poets
April 11 - Bienvenido Lumbera, Filipino poet, critic and dramatist
May 6 - Alauddin Al-Azad, Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
May 7
* Jenny Joseph, English poet
* Yadollah Royaee, Iranian poet
May 25 - Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
May 27 - Linda Pastan, American poet
June 18 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
June 29
* Philip Hobsbaum, English teacher, poet and critic
* Ror Wolf, German poet and writer
July 10 - Martin Green, English author, poet and publisher
July 18 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet Russian poet and writer
July 21 - Marie-Claire Bancquart, French poet and critic
August 16 - Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet
September 18 - Henri Meschonnic, French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
September 13 - Eugene Perkins, African-American poet
October 9 - Seda Vermisheva, Soviet Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist
October 17 - Rosemary Tonks, English poet
October 20 - Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
October 24 - Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American-born poet and novelist
December 11 - Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist; with wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press
Also:
* Jergen Becker, German poet
* Lena Pappa, Greek poet
* Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February 22 - Harriet Converse Moody, 74, American patron of the arts
March 16 - Harold Monro, 53, English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
April 8 - Hubert Church, 74, Australian poet
April 27 - Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
June 21 - حافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim, 60, Egyptian "poet of the Nile"
August 29 - Raymond Knister, 33, Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accident
October 5 - Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet
October 14 - أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64, Egyptian poet
November 19 - Clinton Scollard, 72, American poet
December 18 - Edmund Vance Cooke, 66, Canadian American poet