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

Events

• Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

Works published

• W. H. Auden, Another Time, including the famous "September 1, 1939"
• Sir John Betjeman, Old Lights for New Chancels
• E. E. Cummings, 50 Poems
• T. S. Eliot, East Coker, published in New English Weekly
• Odysseus Elytis's first book, Orientations
• Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York published posthumously this year (written in 1930; first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
• Hugh MacDiarmid, editor, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
• E. H. McCormick, Letters and Art in New Zealand, scholarship^[1]
• Kenneth Rexroth, In What Hour?
• Giorgos Seferis, Τετράδιο Γυμνασμάτων (Exercise Book) and Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος Ι (Deck Diary I)
• Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
• Louis Zukofsky finishes the first half of A

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems
• King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Thwaites

Births

• April 16 — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (died 1975), German
• May 24 — Joseph Brodsky (died 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky in Russia, a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992)
• September 8 — Jack Prelutsky, American poet noted for his children's poems
• October 20 — Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
• date not known:
  • Douglas Barbour
  • Martha Collins (poet)
  • Fanny Howe, American poet, novelist and short story writer
  • Angela De Hoyos
  • Gary Hyland
  • Paul Mariani
  • David W. McFadden

Deaths

• January 5 — Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
• March 4 — Hamlin Garland American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
• March 7 — Edwin Markham, American poet.
• August 21 — Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat
• September 26 — W. H. Davies, Welsh poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom

See also

Poetry portal

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

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