1930 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 |
| Years in literature: | 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 |
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| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Frost Medal inaugurated by the Poetry Society of America
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate
- British poet Basil Bunting, in Europe, contacts American poet Louis Zukofsky in New York City on the recommendation of Ezra Pound; Bunting and Zukofsky will become friends and members of the Objectivist poets group.
[edit] Works published
- Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
- W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remained Auden's publisher for the rest of his life)
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope
- Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
- Hart Crane, The Bridge
- T. S. Eliot - Ash Wednesday
- William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
- Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
- I'll Take My Stand a collection of essays considered the manifesto of the Southern Agrarians school of poetry and literature
- Q. Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology[1]
[edit] Awards and honors
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carmen, and George Edward Woodberry
[edit] Births
- January 23 — Derek Walcott, native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English
- February 28 — Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
- March 26 — Gregory Corso (died 2001), American
- May 8 — Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist
- May 11 — Edward Brathwaite, Barbadian writer, poet and dramatist
- May 12 — Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
- August 17 — Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer
- September 25 — Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
- November 16 — Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer and poet
- date not known:
- Adonis or "Adunis", pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France and who writes in Arabic
- Adolph Endler, German[2]
- Roy Fisher
- Jon Silkin (died 1997), British poet.
- Anthony Thwaite, British poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite
[edit] Deaths
- March 2 — D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet, from tuberculosis
- April 21 — Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
- Date not known — Maria Polydouri, Greek
[edit] Notes
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

