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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 Zealand1
- George Oppen, Discrete Series
- Ezra Pound, Homage to Sextus Propertius, London2
- 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 18 — Walt McDonald, American poet and academic
- 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 (born "LeRoi Jones"), 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, community activist, poet, writer and translator
- Stephen Berg, American
- Hettie Jones, American poet, writer and former wife of Amiri Baraka
Deaths
- January 8 - Andrei Bely, novelist, poet and critic
- date not known:
See also
References
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
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