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1937 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 1 – First broadcast on Sveriges Radio (Sweden) of the continuing programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day"). Summer – In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampoons German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels; Heinrich Himmler, however, steps in to reprimand Willrich and defends Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output being dismissed as irrelevant). Iowa Writers' Workshop is founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa George Hill Dillon becomes editor of Poetry Magazine, remaining in that post until 1949. Poems of colonial American pastor Edward Taylor (d. 1729) are first discovered and published. W. B. Yeats concludes his recordings of his own verse and his broadcast lectures on the BBC (begun in 1936). Wilson MacDonald, Comber Cove. Toronto: S.J.R. Saunders. E. J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems, Toronto: Macmillan. Governor General's Award 1937. Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shakti Karyalayam P. R. Kaikini, This Civilization ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co. Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature ( Poetry in English ), London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 404 pages; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom W. H. Auden, Spain W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland, partly poetry George Barker, Calamiterror John Betjeman, Continual Dew: A little book of bourgeois verse, including "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel" Edmund Blunden, A Ballad of Titles, An elegy, and other poems and Uneasy Quiet Walter de la Mare, This Year, Next Year, illustrations by Harold Jones, Faber David Jones, In Parenthesis, frontispiece by author, Faber Charles Madge, The Disappearing Castle Edwin Muir, Journeys and Places Enoch Powell, First Poems, Oxford: Blackwell Isaac Rosenberg, Collected Works, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon; posthumously published Iqbal Ali Shah, editor, The Coronation Book of Oriental Literature, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.

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