1932 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Years in literature:	1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Decades in poetry:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Awards and honors 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also 7 New books

[edit] Events

• W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
• In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) 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 Norton lectures at Harvard (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).

[edit] Works published

• W.H. Auden, The Orators
• Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth
• Sterling Brown, Southern Road
• T.S. Eliot, Sweeney Agonistes and Selected Essays
• Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
• Sir Julian Sorell 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
• W.B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps

[edit] Awards and honors

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

[edit] Births

• January 19 — George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
• March 18 — John Updike, American novelist, writer and poet
• May 7 - Jenny Joseph, English poet
• June 18 — Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
• October 20 — Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
• October 24 — Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
• October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American poet
• date not known:
  • Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
  • Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
  • Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967fighting for the independence of Biafra
  • Linda Pastan, American poet
  • Peter William Redgrove, British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays
  • Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
  • Rosemary Tonks, British poet

[edit] Deaths

• March 16 - Harold Monro, 53, British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
• April 27 — Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
• date not known:
  • Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
  • Hubert N. W. Church
  • Edmund Vance Cooke
  • Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
  • Clinton Scollard

[edit] See also

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

[edit] New books