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— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * January * * Last issue of ''The Criterion'' is published * * ''The Kenyon Review'' is established by John Crowe Ransom * January/February – ''Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'', founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published * February 17 – ''Gunga Din'', a film directed by George Stevens, based loosely on Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name, is released in the United States * June – Rolfe Humphries, a former student of Nicholas Murray Butler at Columbia University, publishes in the magazine ''Poetry'' "Draft Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion", following a classical format of blank verse with one classical reference per line but with the first letters of each line of the resulting acrostic spelling out the message "Nicholas Murray Butler is a horses () ass"; upon learning of the "hidden" message, the irate editors run an apology in the August issue * Carl Rakosi begins a 28-year hiatus from writing poetry 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1939 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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