1932 in poetry
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Events
- April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
- April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.
- July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham.
- In Vietnam, the New Poetry 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 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University.
Works published in English
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Dorothy Livesay, Signpost. Toronto: Macmillan.
- E. J. Pratt, Many Moods, Toronto: Macmillan.
- W. W. E. Ross, Sonnets''.
India">Indian poetry">India, in English">Indian poetry in English">in English
- Govind Krishna Chettur:
- * Gumataraya and other Sonnets for all Moods, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
- * The Temple tank and Other Poems, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
- * The Triumph of Love: A Sonnet Sequence, Mangalore: Basel Mission Bookshop
- Baldoon Dhingra, Beauty's Sanctuary, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press
- Theodore W. La Touche, The Lion Kings of Lanka, Secunderabad: self-published
- Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Saffron and Gold and Other Poems, Madras: Shakti Karyalayam
- Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, The Garden of the East, Karachi: Bharat Publishing House
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Æ, pen name of George William Russell, Song and its Fountains
- Edmund Blunden, Halfway House
- W. H. Auden, The Orators: An English study
- Roy Campbell, Pomegranates
- W. H. Davies, Poems, 1930-31
- Lord Alfred Douglas and others, ed. by John Gawsworth, Known Signatures: new poems
- Lawrence Durrell, Ten Poems
- T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917-1932, criticism
- Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
- Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
- F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems
- William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen
- Aeneas Francon Williams, Dream Drift, by a Young Lover
- S. Fowler Wright, The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, biography
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States">American poetry">United States
- W. H. Auden, The Orators
- Sterling Brown, Southern Road
- Mary Elizabeth Frye, "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"
- Langston Hughes, Scotsboro Limited, verse drama
- Robinson Jeffers, Thurso's Landing and Other Poems
- Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Nicodemus
- Allen Tate, Poems: 1928-1931
- Sara Teasdale, A Country House
- William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head
Other in English
- Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey, Sydney: Frank Johnson, Australia
- W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- André Breton, Le Revolver a chevaux blancs
- Paul Éluard, La Vie immédiate
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Où hoivent les loups
Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent
Hindi">Hindi poetry">Hindi
- Sumitranandan Pant, Gunjana, including many popular Hindi poems such as "Nauka Vihar", "Ek Tara", "Candni", "Madhuvan"
- Rama Nath Jyotisi, Mahabharat Mahakavya, epic Hindi poem based on the Mahabharata, with new interpretations of the episodes
- Mahadevi Varma, Rasmi, 35 Hindi poems of the Chayavadi romantic poetry movement in Indian literature
Other Indian languages
- Adibhatta Narayandas, translator, Rubaiyat, from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation into Sanskrit and Telugu, with the text in Persian and Roman lettering
- Anil, also known as "Atmaram Raoji Deshpande", Phulavat, the author's first book of poetry; mostly love poems; Marathi
- D. R. Bendre, also known as "Ambikatanayadatta", Gari, 55 poems, marked by an unusual level of abstraction, metrical experiments and metaphorical language; Kannada
- Mahjoor, Bagh e Nisata Kae Gulo, poem on the charms of the Dal Lake; Kashmiri
- Mathura Prasad Dikshit, editor, Govinda Gitavali, collection of Govindadasa's 17th-century devotional songs and others in the Maithili-language oral tradition
- Maulvi Abdul Haq, editor, Jangnamah-yi Alam Ali Khan, an 18th-century Urdu narrative poem published for the first time; includes introductory material
- Premendra Mitra, Prathama, the author's first book of poetry; Bengali
- Rabindranath Thakur, Punasca, in this and in some of the author's other books in the mid-1930s, he introduced a new rhythm in poetry that "had a tremendous impact on the modern poets", according to Indian anthologist and academic Sisir Kumar Das; Bengali
- Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma, translator, Salivahana gatha saptasati saramu, translated from the Prakrit of Hāla's Gaha Sattasai into Telugu, in "ataveladi" meter; according to academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das, writing in 1995, the work "is still considered a model for poetical translation"
- K. Shankara Bhat, Nalme, three long narrative poems in Kannada on tragic subjects: Honniya maduve, depicting village life in coastal Karnataka; Madriya Cite, on the tragic end of Madri, wife of Pandu
- Shyamananda Jha, editor, Maithili Sandes, anthology of patriotic Maithili poetry
- T. N. Shreekantayya, Olume, Kannada work including translations from Greek and Pakrit
Spanish language
Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain
- Vicente Aleixandre, Espadas como Labios
- Miguel Hernández, Perito en lunas
- María Pemán, Elegía de la tradición de Españia
American poetry|Latin America]]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Las voces armoniosas, Peru
Other languages
- Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth, Russia
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
- Eugenio Montale, La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie, a chapbook of five poems published in association with the award of the Premio del Antico Fattore to Montale; Florence: Vallecchi; Italy
- Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα , Greece
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
Births
- January 2 - Peter Redgrove, English poet
- January 19 - George MacBeth Scottish-born poet and novelist
- February 6 - Shankha Ghosh, Bengali poet and critic
- February 12 - Hugh Fox,, American novelist and poet, a founder of the Pushcart Prize
- March 18 - John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer
- May 6 - Alauddin Al-Azad,, Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic
- May 7 - Jenny Joseph, English poet
- May 25 - Patrick Cullinan, South African poet
- May 27 - Linda Pastan, American poet
- June 18 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
- June 29
- * Philip Hobsbaum, English teacher, poet and critic
- * Ror Wolf, German poet and writer
- July 10 - Martin Green, English author, poet and publisher
- July 18 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet Russian poet and writer
- July 21 - Marie-Claire Bancquart, French poet and critic
- August 16 - Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet
- September 18 - Henri Meschonnic, French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician
- October 9 - Seda Vermisheva, Soviet Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist
- October 17 - Rosemary Tonks, English poet
- October 20 - Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
- October 24 - Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
- October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist
- December 11 - Keith Waldrop, American poet, prose stylist, visual artist; with wife Rosmarie Waldrop, founding editor of the influential and innovative Burning Deck Press
- Also:
- * Jergen Becker, German
- * Douglas Livingstone, Malaysian-born South African poet
- * Eugene Perkins, African-American poet
- * Linda M. Stitt, Canadian poet
Deaths
- March 16 - Harold Monro, 53, English poet and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
- April 8 - Hubert Church, 74, Australian poet
- April 27 - Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
- June 21 - حافظ إبراهيم Hafez Ibrahim, 60, Egyptian "poet of the Nile"
- August 29 - Raymond Knister, 33, Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet, drowned in a swimming accident
- October 5 - Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet
- October 14 - أحمد شوقي Ahmed Shawqi, 64, Egyptian poet
- November 19 - Clinton Scollard, 72, American poet
- December 18 - Edmund Vance Cooke, 66, Canadian American poet