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1936 in poetry

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Events

File:Lorca Olive Tree.jpg where Federico García Lorca is executed on August 19, as it is in 1999. Many people have left quotations from his works in its branches.{{cite book|last=Gibson|first=Ian|authorlink=Ian Gibson (author)|title=Lorca's Granada|year=1992|isbn=0-571-16489-7}}]]

  • January – Canadian Poetry Magazine first published by the Canadian Authors Association, with E. J. Pratt's active involvement. It becomes associated with more traditional poetry, very popular in Canada at this time.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Gnarowsky|first=Michael|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/poetry-in-english/|title=Poetry in English, 1918-1960|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=2009-02-08}}
  • May
  • In Nazi Germany, the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacks the expressionist and experimental poetry of German Gottfried Benn as degenerate, Jewish and homosexual.
  • Greek poet and Communist activist Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his landmark poem Epitaphios by a photograph of a dead protester during a massive tobacco-workers demonstration in Thessaloniki; it is published soon afterwards. In August, the right-wing dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.{{cite book|authorlink=Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking|first=Kenneth|last=Baker|title=On the Burning of Books|location=London|publisher=Unicorn|year=2016|isbn=978-1-910787-11-3|pages=66–8}}
  • August 18 – 38-year-old Spanish dramatist and poet Federico García Lorca is among those arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and is never seen again.
  • James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishing in New York, which publishes many modern poets for the first time.
  • A version of J. R. R. Tolkien's influential lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" is published in Proceedings of the British Academy.
  • W. B. Yeats begins delivering broadcast lectures on the BBC (the lectures continue into 1937), and makes recordings of his own verse.{{cite book|author1=Mac Liammoir, Michael |author2=Boland, Eavan |title=W. B. Yeats|url=https://archive.org/details/wbyeatshisworld00macl |url-access=registration |publisher=Thames and Hudson|series=Thames and Hudson Literary Lives|location=London|year=1971|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wbyeatshisworld00macl/page/121 121–122]}}

Works published in English

=[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=

  • W. E. Collin, The White Savannahs, the first collection of criticism of contemporary poetry in Canada from a modernist perspective; written by a professor of French at the University of Western OntarioPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "History and Criticism" section, p 164
  • Kenneth Leslie, Such a Din! Poems. Halifax: McCurdy.Burris Devanney, Sandra Campbell and Domenico Di Nardo. "[http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol05/devanney2.htm Kenneth Leslie: A Preliminary Bibliography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402133843/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol05/devanney2.htm |date=2012-04-02 }}." Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews No.05 (Fall/Winter 1979), UWO, Web, Apr. 15, 2011
  • New Provinces, first anthology of modernist poetry in Canada, including work by F. R. Scott, E. J. Pratt, Robert Finch, A. J. M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein.Michael Gnarowski, "[http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005706 New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801083649/https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm |date=2020-08-01 }}," Canadian Encyclopedia (Hurtig: Edmonton, 1988), 1479.
  • Marjorie Pickthall, The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall, 2nd edition. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart). Posthumously publishedGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  • Charles G. D. Roberts, Selected Poems of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts. (Toronto: Ryerson).
  • Frederick George Scott, Poems

=[[Indian poetry|India]], [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]=

  • Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Strange Journey (Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Bharatha Shakthy NilayamVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • Nilima Devi, The Hidden Face (Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Futurist Publishing HouseNaik, M. K., [https://books.google.com/books?id=FcH2MUnlQjQC Perspectives on Indian poetry in English], p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, {{ISBN|0-391-03286-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-391-03286-6}}), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
  • P. R. Kaikini, Songs of a Wanderer (Poetry in English) ; Bombay: New Book Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • M. S. Nirmal, Song of Immortality (Poetry in English), Lahore: Model Electric PressVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319], New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • Brajendranath Seal, The Quest Eternal (Poetry in English) Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2], 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, {{ISBN|978-81-7201-798-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
  • Subho Tagore, Peacock Plumes (Poetry/in English ),

=[[New Zealand poetry|New Zealand]]=

  • Ursula Bethell, Time and Place: poems by the author of 'From a garden in the Antipodes, Christchurch: Caxton Press[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024521/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm |date=2006-03-06 }} at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
  • Robin Hyde:
  • Passport to Hell
  • Check To Your King

=[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=

=[[American poetry|United States]]=

=Other in English=

  • Rex Ingamells, Forgotten People published in Adelaide; including "Garrakeen"; Australia[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140607b.htm "Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913 - 1955)"], article, Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition, retrieved May 12, 2009. 2009-05-14.

Works published in other languages

=[[French poetry|France]]=

  • Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel, Les Yeux fertilesAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 {{ISBN|0-394-52197-8}}
  • Francis Jammes, Sources, Paris: Le DivanWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3453 "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)"], at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009
  • Pierre Jean Jouve, Hélène
  • Henri Michaux, Voyage en Grand Garabagne
  • Benjamin Péret, Je sublime
  • Saint-John Perse, Poème pour Valery Larbaud, Liège: A la Lampe d'Aladdin; FranceWeb page titled [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/perse-bibl.html "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography"] at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24.

=[[Indian poetry|Indian]] subcontinent=

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

==[[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]==

  • Mohitlal Majumdar, Smara-garal, Bengali
  • Rabindranath Tagore, in these two works as well as in some others of the mid- and early 1930s, the author introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das:
  • Patrput
  • Syamali

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==[[Urdu poetry|Urdu]]==

Translation, commentary and critical appreciation of Pas Cheh Bayad Kard and Masnavi Musafir in Urdu by Dr Elahi Bakhsh Akhtar Awan, publishers University Book Agency Peshawar Pakistan, 1960.

==Other Indian languages==

=Spanish language=

==[[Peruvian poetry|Peru]]==

  • Rafael Méndez Dorich, Dibujos animados (Lima)Web page titled {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120331000044/http://www.revistasolnegro.com/sol%20negro/mendezdorich1.htm "Rafael Méndez Dorich,"]}} Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011
  • Enrique Peña Barrenechea, Elegía a Bécquer y retorno a la sombraFitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 635
  • César Vallejo, Nómina de huesos ("Payroll of Bones")Web page titled [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/30 "César Vallejo"] at the website of the Academy of American Poets, retrieved August 28, 2011
  • José Varallanos, Primer cancionero cholo

==[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]==

  • Federico García Lorca (killed this year; see deaths, below):
  • Diván del Tamarit (Spanish for "The Diván of Tamarit") written this year, will be published in 1941);
  • Sonetos del amor oscuro ("Sonnets of Dark Love") published this year
  • Primeras canciones ("First Songs") published this year
  • Jorge Guillén, Cántico, second, enlarged edition, with 125 poems in seven sections (first edition, with 75 poems, 1928)Debicki, Andrew P., [https://archive.org/details/spanishpoetryoft0000debi Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond], p 43, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-8131-0835-3}}, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
  • Miguel Hernández, El rayo que no cesa
  • Pedro Salinas, Razón d'amor ("Reason for Love")
  • Luis Felipe Vivanco, Cantos de primavera ("Songs of Springtime")

=Other languages=

  • Gottfried Benn, Ausgewählte Gedichte ("Selected Poems"); when first published in May, the book contains two poems that are deleted for the next edition in November : "Mann und Frau gehen durch die Krebsbaracke" and "D-Zug". The vast majority of the first editions are collected and destroyed.
  • Paul la Cour, Dette er vort Liv ("This Is Our Life"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" in Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications, 1993. p. 272.
  • Martinus Nijhoff, Het Uur U, Netherlands
  • Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ('Migjeni'), Vargjet e lira ("Free Verses"), suppressed by government censors; enlarged edition with two poems deleted published in 1944, Albania
  • Cesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca ("Hard Work"), shortened by four poems deleted by Fascist censors; enlarged edition nearly double in size published in 1942; Florence: Solaria, Italy{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cesare-pavese |title=Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |publisher=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=2009-04-09 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216232059/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5278 |archivedate=2009-02-16 }} 2009-05-04.
  • August Sang, {{lang|et|Üks noormees otsib õnne}}, Estonia

Awards and honors

Births

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Deaths

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See also

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