| List of years in poetry (table) |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[]
Hermann Hesse, photographed this year
- T.S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship
Works published[]
Canada[]
- 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 ).
- Lloyd Roberts, Along the Ottawa.[4]
India in English[]
- Swami Ananda Acharya:
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets,[7] Madras: printed at Hogarth Press;[8]
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler ( Poetry in English ) ,[7]
- Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose ( Poetry in English ), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)[9]
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology ( Poetry in English ) , published in the United Kingdom .[10]
Ireland[]
- 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[11]
United Kingdom[]
- G.K. Chesterton, Collected Poems[11]
- W.H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar[11]
- T.S. Eliot:
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[10]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26[11]
- A.A. Milne, Now We are Six[11]
- Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies[11]
- Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed[11]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- W.B. Yeats:
United States[]
- Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament[12]
- Countee Cullen, Copper Sun[13]
- Donald Davidson, The Tall Men[12]
- Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew[14]
- Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur[12]
- James Weldon Johnson:
- God's Trombones[12]
- God's Promises
- Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale[12]
- 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,[12] presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
- 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[]
- Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
Works published in other languages[]
France[]
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)[15]
- Jean Cocteau, Opรฉra, Oeuvres poรฉtiques[16]
- Robert Desnos, La libertรฉ ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
- Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.[17]
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
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[]
- Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali[7]
- Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali[7]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali [7]
Other Indian languages[]
- Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi[7]
- 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[7]
- Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu[7]
Spain[]
- Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925โ1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")[18]
- Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesรญas ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])[18]
- Federico Garcรญa Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
- Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")[18]
Other languages[]
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Klemtende hjรฆrte. Udvalgte digte fra ti aar og nye, Denmark
Awards and honors[]
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
- April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
- July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet early in his career was associated with the Black Mountain poets; later was recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, ie., Language poetry
- September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 – Gรผnter Grass, German author and poet
- October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
- October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
- Also
- Henry Coulette
- David Diop
- Molly Holden (died 1981)
- Judson Jerome, American
- Richard Moore, American poet and academic
- Richard Murphy, Irish poet
- John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 6 – Florence Earle Coates, American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia.
- July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
- September 14 – Hugo Ball, 41, German author and poet.
- October 8 – Ricardo Gรผiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet
- October 26 – Yagi Jลซkichi, ๅ ซๆจ้ๅ (born 1898), Japanese (surname: Yagi)
- Also
- Adolfo Leรณn Gรณmez, Colombian poet
- Emma Marie Caillard
- Charles Mair, Canadian poet
See also[]
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry
Notes[]
- โ "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011.
- โ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- โ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- โ Hilary Waterhouse, "Lloyd Roberts," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Web, June 10, 2011.
- โ Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02.
- โ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- โ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- โ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- โ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- โ 10.0 10.1 Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- โ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- โ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- โ 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 9780345423276, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- โ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- โ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- โ Brรฉe, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- โ 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
- โ 18.0 18.1 18.2 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
External links[]
- "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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