1938 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| 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 |
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[edit] Events
- In Nazi Germany, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) banned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing.
[edit] Works published
- Nathan Alterman, Stars Outside (Israel)
- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry, criticism and anthology, (appearing thereafter in revised editions to 1976)
- Robin Hyde, New Zealand:
- Nor the Years Condemn
- The Godwits Fly
- 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"
- Emil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters, Germany (scholarship)[1]
- William Carlos Williams, The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
- W.B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli"
[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:
- Elke Erb, German[2]
- 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.
