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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[]
- Frost Medal inaugurated by the Poetry Society of America
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
- British poet Basil Bunting, in Europe, contacts American poet Louis Zukofsky in New York City on the recommendation of Ezra Pound; Bunting and Zukofsky will become friends and members of the Objectivist poets group.
Works published[]
Canada[]
- 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[]
- Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
- W.H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remained Auden's publisher for the rest of his life); English poet living and publishing in the United States
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work;[4] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley[4]
- Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden[4]
- Roy Campbell, a South African native published in the United Kingdom:
- Adamastor,[4]
- Poems
- Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan.
- T.S. Eliot:
- 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]
- 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]
- AE, pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems[4]
- Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems[4]
- Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems[4]
- Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City[4]
- Anthologies
- An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
- Biography, criticism, scholarhip
- William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
United States[]
- W.H. Auden, Poems[6]
- Hart Crane, The Bridge[6]
- I'll Take My Stand a collection of essays considered the manifesto of the Southern Agrarians school of poetry and literature
- 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[]
- Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman[7]
- Q. Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology, New Zealand[8]
Works published in other languages[]
France[]
- RenƩ 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]
- LĆ©on-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 ForƧat innocent[11]
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:
- Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language[13]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language[13]
- Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quartrians of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali[13]
- 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[]
- Enrique Bustamante y BalliviƔn, Junin, Peru[14]
- Federico GarcĆa Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
- LeĆ³n 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[]
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Sangen om kjerligheten og andre ungdomsvers, Denmark
- Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada[17]
- Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), Denmark[18]
Awards and honors[]
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959)
- January 23 – Derek Walcott, native of St. Lucia, poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English
- February 28 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
- March 26 – Gregory Corso (died 2001), American
- April 8 – Miller Williams, American poet, translator and editor
- May 8 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist
- May 11 – Edward Brathwaite, Barbadian writer, poet and dramatist
- May 12 – Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
- August 17 – Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer
- 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 for Literature
- October 24 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
- November 16 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer and poet
- Also
- Adonis or "Adunis", pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France and who writes in Arabic
- Alvin Aubert, African American
- Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
- Adolph Endler, German[19]
- Roy Fisher, English poet and jazz pianist
- Shang Qin, Chinese
- Jon Silkin (died 1997), British poet.
- Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer married to the writer Ann Thwaite
Deaths[]
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 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicide
- April 21 – Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet Laureate
- Maria Polydouri, Greek
See also[]
- 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[]
- ā "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
- ā Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ā Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ā 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ā Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
- ā 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ā "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 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ā 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
- ā BrĆ©e, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ā Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ā 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 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 0394521978
- ā 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
- ā 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 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
- ā Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/AntologĆa de la PoesĆa Americana ContemporĆ”nea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 595
- ā 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
- ā Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/AntologĆa de la PoesĆa Americana ContemporĆ”nea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649
- ā Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ā "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
- ā Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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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