1934 in poetry

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yp2=1932
yp3=1933
year=1934
ya1=1935
ya2=1936
ya3=1937
dp3=1900s
dp2=1910s
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d=1930s
da=1940s
dn1=1950s
dn2=1960s
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Events

* "The Barretts of Wimpole Street", a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully
*"The University Review" is founded at the University of Kansas City. The publication is now called "New Letters".

Works published

* T. S. Eliot, "The Rock"
* R. A. K. Mason, "No New Thing", New Zealand [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* George Oppen, "Discrete Series"
* Ezra Pound, "Homage to Sextus Propertius", LondonAckroyd, Peter, "Ezra Pound", Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121]
* Dylan Thomas, "Eighteen Poems", including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
* William Carlos Williams, "Collected Poems
* W. B. Yeats, "The King of the Great Clock Tower

Awards and honors

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: "Collected Verse"
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Laurence Whistler

Births

* February 10 - Fleur Adcock, poet
* February 18 — Audre Lorde, American writer, poet and activist
* February 27 — N. Scott Momaday, Native American poet and writer
* March 31 — Kamala Das, Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam, her native language
* March 20 — David Malouf Australian poet and writer
* April 11 — Mark Strand, American poet
* July 13 — Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright who in 1986 was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
* July 20 — Henry Dumas (died 1968) was an African-American writer and poet
* August 5 — Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic — and farmer
* August 6 — Diane Di Prima American poet associated with the Beats
* September 9 — Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet, playwright and children's book author associated with the Black Arts Movement
* September 21 — Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
* September 23 — M. Travis Lane American-Canadian poet
* October 7 — Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright, essayist, music critic and former husband of poet Hettie Jones
* November 15 — Ted Berrigan, (died 1983) American poet and political activist
* date not known:
** Jack Agüeros
** Hettie Jones, American poet, writer and former wife of Amiri Baraka
** Walt McDonald

Deaths

*January 8 - Andrei Bely, novelist, poet and critic
* date not known:
**Jean Blewett
**John Henry Gray

ee also

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

References