Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events - Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in New Youth magazine titled ""A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasized eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points).
- Wilfred Owen, a soldier in World War I, writes Dulce et Decorum Est (published posthumously in 1921). The work's horrifying imagery later made it one of the most popular condemnations of war ever written.
- Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart Military Hospital in Edinburgh, where he meets Wilfred Owen.
- July — last issue of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, founded by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915 and publishing poetry and other writing, as well as visual art; contributors included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, and Lola Ridge
- July — with the United States not yet fighting in World War I, Americans John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings and Robert Hillyer volunteer for the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.
- T. S. Eliot takes over as editor of The Egoist, a London literary monthly, when Richard Aldington leaves for the British Army
- The Little Review moves from Chicago to New York City with the help of Ezra Pound
[edit] Works published in English - Rupert Brooke, Selected Poems[1]
- Richard Church, The Flood of Life[1]
- Walter de la Mare, The Sunken Garden, and Other Poems[1]
- John Drinkwater, Tides[1]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems American poet published in the United Kingdom
- T. S. Eliot:
- Prufrock and Other Observations[1]
- Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, criticism[2]
- Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers[1]
- Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme[1]
- Thomas Hardy:
- Collected Poems[1]
- Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous[1]
- John Masefield, Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems[1]
- Alice Meynell, A FAther of Women, and Other Poems[1]
- George William Russell ("AE"), Salutation[1]
- Vita Sackville-West, Poems of East and West[1]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems[1]
- Sir William Watson, The Man Who Saw, and Other Poems Arising Out of the War[1]
- Charles Williams, Poems of Conformity[1]
- William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Colle, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Some Imagist Poets third and final anthology; this effectively marks the end of the Imagist movement
- Conrad Aiken, Nocturne of Remembered Spring[2]
- John Peale Bishop, Green Fruit[2]
- Witter Bynner, grenstone Poems[2]
- Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927), Pro Patria A 16-page pamphlet of seven war poems published privately in Philadelphia in support of American involvement in World War I.[3]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems American poet published in the United Kingdom
- Edgar A. Guest, Just Folks[2]
- Archibald MacLeish, Tower of Ivory[2]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems[2]
- James Oppenheim, The Book of Self[2]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Merlin[2]
- George Sterling, Thirty-five Sonnets[2]
- Sara Teasdale, Love Songs[2]
- William Carlos Williams, A Book of Poems: Al Que Quiere![2]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Balawantrai Thakore, Bhanakar, Gujarati language[7]
- Ci. Subrahamaniya Bharati, Kannan Pattu, Tamil language[4]
- C. R. Sahasrabuddha, Kakaduta, a parody (a book with the same name by a different author was published in 1940), Sanskrit language[4]
- Daulat Ram, Raja Gopi Cand, long narrative poem in the traditional genre of "Kissa", about the legend of Raja Gopi Chand, Punjabi language[4]
- Duvvuri Rami Reddi, Nalajaramma agnipravesamu, Telugu language[4]
- Hiteshwar Bar Barua, Desdimona Kavya, narrative poem inspired by Shakespeare's ' 'Othello' ', Assamese language[4]
- Hiteshwar Barua, Angila, Assamese language[4]
- Vallathol Narayana Menon, also known simply as "Vallathol", Sahityamanjari, Part I, Malayalam language[4]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - Also:
- Samuel W. Allen, African American
- Margaret T. G. Burroughs African American
- Judson Crews, American
- Takis Sinopoulos, Greek
- Rainer Brambach (died 1983), German[10]
- Abdus Sattar Ranjoor Kashmiri (died 1990), Indian, Kashmiri-language[4]
- Gopal Prasad Rimal (died 1973), Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwright[4]
- Kamakshi Prasad Chattopadhyay (died 1976), Indian, Bengali-language poet and fiction writer[4]
- P. N. Pushp, Indian, Kashmiri-language[4]
- Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez (died 2009), journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller (surname: Rodriguez Velez)[11]
- Sampath (poet), pen name of Raghavacharya Sankhavaram, Indian, Telugu poet[4]
- Themis (poet), Indian poet in the Aurobindoean School[4]
[edit] Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Killed in World War I [edit] Awards and honors [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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)
- ^ "Slideshow of a reprint copy of the 1917 pamphlet of war poetry, Pro Patria.". Archived from the original on 2009-07-26. http://www.webcitation.org/5iZFJKAh9. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p 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
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Poet: Gottfried Benn", at Poetry Foundation website, retrieved December 16, 2009
- ^ a b Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, pp 11 (Machado), 14 (Jimenez), University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ "Panamanian writer Rodriguez Velez dies", article, January 11, 2009, United Press International website; also "Panama Writer Mario Augusto Rodriguez Dies", January 11, Latin American Herald Tribune, both retrieved same day
|
