1938 in poetry

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Events

* In Nazi Germany, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) banned German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing.

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, ""
* 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)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474]
* William Carlos Williams, "The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938"
* W.B. Yeats, "New Poems", including "Lapis Lazuli"

Awards and honors

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

Births

* February 22 — Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
* March 18 — Michael S. Harper, African-American poet
* 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 [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
** Frances Horovitz English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry.
** Keroapetse Kgositsile
** Deena Linett
** Leslie Allan Murray
** George Thaniel

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.

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

References