1936 in poetry

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Events

• James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time;

• Martin Starkie founds Oxford University Poetry Society in Oxford, England.

• May — In Nazi Germany, the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacked the expressionist and experimental poetry of German Gottfried Benn as degenerate, Jewish, and homosexual.

• William Butler Yeats begins delivering broadcast lectures on the BBC (the lectures continue into 1937), and makes recordings of his own verse.^[1]

Works published in English

New Zealand

• Ursula Bethell, Time and Place: poems by the author of 'From a garden in the Antipodes, Christchurch: Caxton Press^[2]
• Robin Hyde:
  • Passport to Hell
  • Check To Your King

United Kingdom

• T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-35, including "Burnt Norton"
• F. R. Leavis, Revaluation rejects Milton, Spenser, and Shelley and praises Donne, Pope, Hopkins, Eliot, and others (criticism)
• Michael Roberts edits The Faber Book of Modern Verse, which praises poets such as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot and ignores poets like Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy (anthology)
• Dylan Thomas, Twenty-Five Poems, including "And Death Shall have No Dominion"
• W. B. Yeats, editor, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 (anthology)

United States

• W. H. Auden, Look, Stranger! (Anglo-American)
• Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well
• Charles Reznikoff, Separate Way, including "The Socialists of Vienna" (Objectivist Press)
• William Carlos Williams, Adam & Eve & The City
• New Directions publishes its first book and its first "annual", New Directions in Prose and Poetry with contributions from Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams and others.

Other in English

• W. E. Collin, The White Savannahs, Canada, criticism^[3]

Works published in other languages

Iqbal

• Gottfried Benn, Ausgewählte Gedichte ("Selected Poems"); when first published in May, the book contained two poems that were removed for the next edition in November : "Mann und Frau gehen durch die Krebsbaracke" and "D-Zug". The vast majority of the first editions were collected and destroyed.
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal:
  • Pas Chih Bayad Kard ay Aqwam-i-Sharq (or What should then be done O people of the East), philosophical poetry book in Persian
  • Zarb-i-Kalim (or The Rod of Moses), philosophical poetry book in Urdu
• Federico García Lorca (killed this year; see deaths, below):
  • Diván del Tamarit (Spanish for "The Diván of Tamarit") written this year, will be published in 1941);
  • Sonetos del amor oscuro ("Sonnets of Dark Love") published this year
  • Primeras canciones ("First Songs") published this year

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness

Births

• March 31 — Marge Piercy, American poet, novelist, and social activist
• April 6 — John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright who originally published under the name of "J.P. Clark"
• June 27 — Lucille Clifton, African-American poet and feminist
• June 26 — Elisabeth Harvor, Canadian novelist and poet
• July 9 — June Jordan (died 2002), African-American political activist, writer, poet, and teacher
• November 4 — C. K. Williams, American poet
• November 17 — Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet
• December 1 — George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
• date not known:
  • J. H. Prynne, British poet, writer, key figure in the British Poetry Revival, and a major contributor to The English Intelligencer
  • John Robert Colombo, Canadian poet, editor and humorist
  • Jayne Cortez, African-American poetry poet
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Clarence Major
  • Christopher Wiseman
  • David Young (writer), editor and co-founder of FIELD Magazine

Deaths

• January 18 — Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907
• April 30 — A. E. Housman, 77, English poet and writer and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad
• June 11 — Robert E. Howard, 30, American writer and poet, committed suicide
• June 14 — G. K. Chesterton English writer, journalist, poet, biographer and Christian apologist
• August 19 — Federico García Lorca, 38, Spanish dramatist, poet, painter, pianist, composer, and emblematic member of the Generation of '27, killed by Nationalist partisans at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (see "Works published" above)
• September 26 — Harriet Monroe, 75, American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts best known as founder and long time editor of Poetry magazine, of a cerebral haemorrhage
• December 28 — John Cornford, 21, English Communist poet, in the Spanish Civil War
• December 31 — Miguel de Unamuno, 72, Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher
• Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, 73, Arab poet, philosopher and champion of women's rights
• date not known — Govinda Kristna Chettur

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

References