1940 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – English literary magazine Horizon is first published in London by Cyril Connolly, Peter Watson and Stephen Spender July 26 – Release of the movie adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with English poet and writer Aldous Huxley as a screenwriter English poet Basil Bunting joins the Royal Air Force and is eventually sent to Iran as an intelligence officer and translator Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's collection From Six Books is published in the Soviet Union but publication is suspended shortly after release, copies pulped and remaining issues prohibited American poet Louis Zukofsky finishes the first half of "A" Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised: Mohendra Nath Dutt, Kurukshetra ( Poetry in English ), an epic; Calcutta: P. M. Mukherji P. R. Kaikini, The Recruit ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: New Book Co. Manjeri Sundaraman, Catguts ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Hurley Press A. M. Klein, Hath Not a Jew. E. J. Pratt, Brebeuf and his Brethren, Toronto: Macmillan, 1940. Detroit: Basilian Press, 1942. Governor General's Award 1940. W. H. Auden, English poet living at this time in the United States: Another Time, including "September 1, 1939" Some Poems John Betjeman, Old Lights for New Chancels Edmund Blunden, Poems 1930–1940 R. N. Currey, Tiresias Cecil Day-Lewis: translation, The Georgics of Virgil (see also his translations of The Aeneid of Virgil 1952 and The Eclogues of Virgil 1963) Poems in Wartime T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, and Other Poems, The Waste Land first published in 1923 East Coker, published in The New English Weekly, Easter Number; published in book form in June; republished in Four Quartets 1944 William Empson, The Gathering Storm Roy Fuller, Poems Robert Garioch (pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland) and Sorley MacLean (also known as Somhairle MacGill-Eain}, 17 Poems for 6d.

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1922 in poetry

— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it.

1938 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). In Nazi Germany the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) bans German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn from further writing. The Arbujad ("Soothsayers") group of Estonian poets forms. Rex Ingamells and Ian Tilbrook, Conditional Culture, published in Adelaide; a manifesto advocating a "fundamental break ...

1940 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).