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Events edit
- Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.
Works published edit
Canada edit
- Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson).[1]
- Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.[2]
- E. J. Pratt:
- The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan.
- Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts.
- W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.[3]
United Kingdom edit
- Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
- An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
- W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remains Auden's publisher for the rest of his life)
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work;[4] Irish poet published in France
- Julian Bell, Winter Movement
- Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley[4]
- Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden[4]
- Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan
- Roy Campbell, South African native published in the United Kingdom:
- Adamastor[4]
- Poems
- Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
- Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
- T. S. Eliot:
- Ash Wednesday
- Marina[4]
- Translator (and writer of the introduction), Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: Faber[5]
- William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
- Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems[4]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918)[4]
- Brian Howard, God Save the King
- D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous[4]):
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots[4]
- 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems[4]
- Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems[4]
- Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems[4]
- Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
- Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City[4]
- D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse
United States edit
- W. H. Auden, Poems[6]
- Hart Crane, The Bridge[6]
- Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night[6]
- Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth[6]
- Robert Frost, Collected Poems[6]
- Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House[6]
- Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things[6]
- William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City[6]
- Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land[6]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts[6]
- Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos,[6] American poet writing in Europe
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April[6]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales[6]
- Allen Tate, Three Poems[6]
- Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night[6]
- Yvor Winters, The Proof[6]
Other in English edit
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish writer published in the United Kingdom
- Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman[7]
- Brian O'Nolan, "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual, Irish writer (his first published work)
- Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)[8]
Works published in other languages edit
France edit
- René Char, Ralentir travaux[9]
- Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France[10]
- Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet[11]
- Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919–1929[11]
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe[11]
- Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears[12]
- Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches[11]
- Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent[11]
Indian subcontinent edit
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language[13]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language[13]
- Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quatrains of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali[13]
- Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali
- Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism[13]
- Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted[13]
- T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship[13]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali[13]
Spanish language edit
- Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru[14]
- León de Greiff, Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento (Segundo Mamotreto), Columbia
- Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
- León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante ("Verses and Prayers of the Walker"), second volume (first volume, 1920); Spain[15]
- Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru[16]
Other edit
- Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada[17]
- Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), Denmark[18]
- J. Slauerhoff, Serenade, Dutch
Awards and honors edit
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1
- January 5 – Jesús Rosas Marcano (died 2001), Venezuelan poet
- January 23 – Derek Walcott (died 2017), Caribbean St. Lucian-born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
- February 15 – Bruce Dawe (died 2020), Australian poet
- March – Alvin Aubert (died 2014), African-American poet and scholar
- March 21 – Roger-Arnould Rivière (suicide 1959), French poet
- March 26 – Gregory Corso (died 2001), American poet
- April 8 – Miller Williams (died 2015), American poet, translator and editor
- May 3 – Juan Gelman (died 2014), Argentine poet
- May 8 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist
- May 11 – Kamau Brathwaite (died 2020), Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
- May 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
- May 23 – Friedrich Achleitner (died 2019), Austrian architect and poet
- June 9 – Roberto Fernández Retamar (died 2019), Cuban poet and literary critic
- June 11 – Roy Fisher (died 2017), English poet and jazz pianist
- June 23 – Anthony Thwaite (died 2021), English poet, writer and editor, married to the writer Ann Thwaite
- August 17 – Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984
- September 25 – Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
- October 10 – Harold Pinter (died 2008), English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
- October 24 – Elaine Feinstein (died 2019), English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
- November 16 – Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poet
- November 19 – Bernard Noel (died 2021), French poet and writer
- November 20 – Bai Hua (died 2019), Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist
- December 2 – Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poet
- December 27 – Attoor Ravi Varma (died 2019), Indian Malayalam poet and translator
- Also:
- Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
- Adolph Endler, German[19]
- Brian Higgins (died 1965), British poet, mathematician and rugby league player
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 2 – D. H. Lawrence (born 1885), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis
- April 10 – Alfred Williams (born 1877), English "hammerman poet"
- April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicide
- April 21 – Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet Laureate
- April 29 – Maria Polydouri (born 1902), Greek poet, from tuberculosis
See also edit
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry
Notes edit
- ^ "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
- ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ^ a b c d e Auster, 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
- ^ Classe, Olive, editor, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English, "Henri Michaux" article, p 945, Volume 2, publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g Das, Sisir Kumar and various, 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
- ^ Fitts, 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 595
- ^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Fitts, 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 649
- ^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ "Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Michael, Hofmann, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.