1932 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 |
| Years in literature: | 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 |
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[edit] Events
- W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
- In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
- T. S. Eliot begins his 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).
[edit] Works published
- W. H. Auden, The Orators
- Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth
- Sterling Brown, Southern Road
- T. S. Eliot, Sweeney Agonistes and Selected Essays
- Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
- F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
- Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern)
- William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps
[edit] Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
[edit] Births
- January 19 — George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
- March 18 — John Updike, American novelist, writer and poet
- May 7 - Jenny Joseph, English poet
- June 18 — Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
- October 20 — Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
- October 24 — Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
- October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American poet
- Date not known:
- Jergen Becker, German[1]
- Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
- Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
- Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967fighting for the independence of Biafra
- Linda Pastan, American poet
- Peter William Redgrove, British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays
- Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
- Rosemary Tonks, British poet
[edit] Deaths
- March 16 - Harold Monro, 53, British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
- April 27 — Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
- October 5 — Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
- date not known:
- Hubert N. W. Church
- Edmund Vance Cooke
- Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
- Clinton Scollard
