Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published in English - Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911
- G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse[2]
- Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse[2]
- E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre[2]
- Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy[2]
- John Masefield, Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers (for children)[2]
- Stephen Phillips, The New Inferno[2]
- Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom[3]
- Katharine Tynan, New Poems[2]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages - Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire; ou, Cortege d'Orphee, Paris: Deplanche;[6] his first book of poetry[1] (see also "Events" section, above)
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrede[1]
- Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912[7]
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments[1]
- Saint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France[8]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Devendranath Sen, Indian, Bengali-language poet:
- Golap Guccha[9]
- Sisu Mangal[9]
- Apurba Naibedya[9]
- Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form[10] (surname: Gurajada)
- S. G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada language[9]
- Tirupathi Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales[10] (surname: Tirupathi)
[edit] Other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
- February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
- February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
- March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian
- April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poet
- May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet
- May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
- June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary critic
- June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poet
- June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
- June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004), Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
- July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic[9]
- July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poet
- August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
- September 9 – Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet
- October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet
- November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), Greek
- November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), Australian
- December 13 – Kenneth Patchen, (died 1972) American poet and novelist
- Also:
- C. B. Christesen (died 2003), Australian
- Robert Clark, Australian[11]
- Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), French
- Ernst Meister (died 1979), German[12]
- Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[9]
- Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator[13]
- Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist[9]
- Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist[9]
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d 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
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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
- ^ a b Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree, pp 306-328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 20089
- ^ "Robert Clark". Friendly Street Poets. http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/clark.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
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