1938 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Years in literature:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
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:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 2.1 Other 3 Awards and honors 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] Events

[edit] Works published

• Nathan Alterman, Stars Outside (Israel)
• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976)
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Armaghan-i-Hijaz (Gift from Hijaz), philosophical poetry book in Persian
• Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
• Louis MacNeice, The Earth Compels
• Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, third series
• Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, dedicated "To Louis Zukofsky and Basil Bunting strugglers in the desert"
• William Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
• W.B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli"

[edit] Other

• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry

[edit] Awards and honors

• Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky

[edit] Births

• February 22 — Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
• May 9 — Charles Simic, American poet
• May 25 — Raymond Carver (died in 1988), American short-story writer and poet
• June 13 — John Newlove (died in 2003), Canadian poet
• July 19 - Dom Moraes (died in 2004), Indian writer, poet and columnist
• date not known:
• Michael Harper (poet)
• Frances Horovitz English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry.
• Keroapetse Kgositsile
• Deena Linett
• Leslie Allan Murray
• George Thaniel

[edit] Deaths

• March 1 — Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil
• April 15 — César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
• April 19 — Sir Henry Newbolt, English author and poet
• April 21 — Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal" [Urdu], and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" [Persian]) 70, Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, who wrote in Persian and Urdu, and praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
• June 26 — James Weldon Johnson African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems, and collections of folklore
• October 27 — Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
• December 7 — Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.

[edit] See also

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