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Events edit
- June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship.
- July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
- August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Works published edit
Canada edit
- Alfred Bailey, Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.[1]
- Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.[2]
- E. J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan.[3]
- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time. (Toronto: Ryerson).
India in English edit
- Swami Ananda Acharya:
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets[6] Madras: printed at Hogarth Press[7]
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler (Poetry in English)[6]
- Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose (Poetry in English), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)[8]
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology (Poetry in English), published in the United Kingdom[9]
Ireland edit
- James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
- W. B. Yeats:
- October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
- Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction[10]
United Kingdom edit
- G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems[10]
- Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar[10]
- T. S. Eliot
- Journey of the Magi[10]
- "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) is published in December in Saturday Review of Literature; also published in January 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[9]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26[10]
- Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons
- Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet
- A. A. Milne, Now We are Six[10]
- William Plomer, Notes for Poems
- Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies[10]
- Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed[10]
- Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems
- Humbert Wolfe[10]
- Cursory Rhymes
- Requiem
- W. B. Yeats
United States edit
- Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament[11]
- Countee Cullen, Copper Sun[12]
- Donald Davidson, The Tall Men[11]
- Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew[13]
- Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur[11]
- James Weldon Johnson:
- God's Trombones[11]
- God's Promises
- Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale[11]
- John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
- Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel,[11] presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
- Alice Dunbar Nelson, Caroling Dusk - a collection of African-American poets
- Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)
Other in English edit
- Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
Works published in other languages edit
France edit
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)[14]
- Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques[15]
- Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
- Henri Michaux, Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.[16]
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
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:
Bengali edit
- Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali[6]
- Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali[6]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali[6]
Other Indian languages edit
- Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi[6]
- Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India[6]
- Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu[6]
- Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems
- Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv
Spanish language edit
Peru edit
- Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas ("5 Meters of Poems")[17]
Spain edit
- Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")[18]
- Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesías ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])[18]
- Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
- Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")[18]
Other languages edit
- Chen Xiaocui, Cuilou Yincao, China
- Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany
- Hendrik Marsman, Paradise Regained, Netherlands
Awards and honors edit
- Newdigate Prize: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Charles Tomlinson (died 2015), English poet, translator, academic and artist
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell (died 2014), American poet
- February 16 – Pearse Hutchinson (died 2012), Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator
- April 7 – Giampiero Neri, born Giampietro Pontiggia (died 2023), Italian poet
- April 8
- Judson Jerome (died 1991), American poet
- Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- April 12 – Don Coles (died 2017), Canadian poet
- June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- June 8 – George Lamming (died 2022), Barbadian poet
- June 20 – Simin Behbahani (died 2014), Persian poet
- June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
- July 9 – David Diop (died 1960), French Senegalese poet
- July 22 – John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented
- July 28 – John Ashbery (died 2017), American poet, chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- August 6 – Richard Murphy, Irish-born poet
- August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet, early in his career associated with the Black Mountain poets; later recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, e.g., Language poetry
- August 15 – Patrick Galvin (died 2011), Irish poet and dramatist
- September 7 – Molly Holden (died 1981), English poet
- September 20 – Elisabet Hermodsson (died 2017), Swedish poet and artist
- September 30 – W. S. Merwin (died 2019), American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 – Günter Grass (died 2015), German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
- October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician
- December 3 – James Wright (died 1980), American poet
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, سلیمان نظیف (born 1870), Turkish poet and politician, pneumonia
- April 6 – Florence Earle Coates (born 1850), American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
- June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez (born 1857), Colombian poet
- July 5 – Lesbia Harford (born 1892), Australian poet
- July 7 – Charles Mair (born 1838), Canadian poet
- September 14 – Hugo Ball (born 1886), German Dada author and poet
- September 15 – Herman Gorter (born 1864), Dutch poet and socialist
- October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes (born 1886), Argentine-born novelist and poet
- October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese poet (surname: Yagi)
See also edit
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry
Notes edit
- ^ "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011.
- ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ^ Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. 2009-08-02.
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, 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
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b c d e f Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)"at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03.
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Michaux, Henri, edited by David Ball, Henri Michaux: Anthology 1927-1984 Selected, Translated and Presented by David Ball, Introduction by David Ball, p xxii, Footnote 4, University of California Press, 1997, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "5 METROS DE POEMAS / 5 METERS OF POEMS BY CARLOS OQUENDO DE AMAT" Bomblog website, retrieved May 11, 2013
- ^ a b c 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