Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - The Bengali Writers of English Verse: A Record and an Appreciation, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink U Co., 1918.; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 119 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[1]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, The Feast of Youth, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House; India, Indian poetry in English[2]
- Baldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Theodore Douglas Dunn, editor, The Bengali Book of English Verse, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co.; anthology; Indian poetry in English[1]
- Laurence Binyon, The New World: Poems[3]
- Rupert Brooke, The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke[3]
- Walter de la Mare, Motley, and Other Poems[3]
- Baldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Whin[3]
- Oliver St. John Gogarty, The Ship, and Other Poems* Walter de la Mare, Motley, and Other Poems[3]
- A. P. Herbert, The Bomber Gipsy, and Other Poems[3]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited and with notes by Robert Bridges, a friend; Hopkins had been unpublished during his lifetime (posthumous)[3]
- Aldous Huxley, The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems[3]
- D. H. Lawrence, New Poems[3]
- Morley Roberts, War Lyrics[3]
- Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems[3] (text)
- Dora Sigerson, The Sad Years and Other Poems[3]
- Sacheverell Sitwell, The People's Palace[3]
- J. C. Squire, Poems, First Series[3]
- Edward Thomas, Last Poems[3]
- Arthur Waley, editor and translator, One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (anthology)[3]
- W. B. Yeats, Nine Poems,[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Conrad Aiken, The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems[4]
- Sherwood Anderson, Mid-American Chants[4]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, Young Adventure[4]
- John Gould Fletcher, The Tree of Life[4]
- Amy Lowell, Can Grande's Castle[4]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Toward the Gulf[4]
- Charles Reznikoff, Rhythms, his first book of poetry, a small volume, self-published
- Lola Ridge, The Ghetto and Other Poems[4]
- Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers, Holt, Rinehart and Winston[5]
- Wallace Stevens, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" is first published (it will later be included in his first poetry book, Harmonium.[6]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages - Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Calligrammes, France[7]
- Jean Cocteau, Le Cap de Bonne Espérance, about the author's experience as a trapeze artist, written in vers brisés[8]
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Adramandoni[9]
- Pierre Reverdy,
- Les Ardoises du toit[9]
- Les Jockeys camouflés[9]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Vingt-cinq poèmes[9]
[edit] Other languages - Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Denmark:
- Europa brænder ("Europe burner")
- Bade-amour: Erotiske billeder fra Kullen ("Bade-amour: Erotic Images from the Kullen")
- Aleksandr Blok, The Twelve, (Russian: Двенадцать, Dvenadtsat), a controversial long poem, one of the first poetic responses to Russia's 1917 October Revolution
- Deva Kanta Barua, Sagar dekhisa, Indian, Assamese language[10]
- Gerardo Diego, El romancero de la novia ("The Bride's Ballads"), Spain[11]
- Aaro Hellaakoski, Nimettömiä lauluja, Finland
- Federico García Lorca, Impressiones y paisajes ("Impressions and Landscapes"), Spain
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (The Secrets of Selflessness) published in Persian, his second philosophical poetry book
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - February 1 – Muriel Spark (dued 2006), Scottish novelist and poet
- February 17 – William Bronk (died 1999), American poet
- April 15 – Louis Coxe, American poet
- April 23 – James Kirkup, English poet, translator and travel writer
- May 10 – Jane Mayhall (died 2009), American poet and novelist.[12]
- July 9 – John Heath-Stubbs (died 2006), English poet and translator
- August 23 – Vinda Karandikar, also known as C. V. Karandikar, Indian, Marathi-language poet, critic and translator[10]
- November 16 – Nicholas Moore (died 1986), English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later dropped out of the literary world
- November 19 – W. S. Graham (died 1986), Scotts poet often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic poets
- December 8 – Hans Børli (died 1989), Norwegian poet, novelist and writer
- December 30 – Al Purdy (died 2000), a popular Canadian poet
- Also:
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (died 1992), Indian, Kannada-language poet often said to be the pioneer of the "navya" (modernist) literary movement in Karnataka[10]
- Indra Dev Bhojvani, also known as "Indur", Indian, Sindhi-language[10]
- Ram Narain Singh Dardi, Indian, Punjabi-language poet who wrote in the Lahndi dialect[10]
- Maheswar Neog, Indian, Assamese-language scholar and poet[10]
- Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉, Japanese Showa and Heisei period novelist and poet (surname: Shimizu)
- Siddayya Puranika, Indian, Kannada-language poet[10]
- Amritdhari Singha, Indian, Maithili-language writer, philosopher and poet[10]
[edit] Deaths Note two subsections, below. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - Also:
- A. R. Raja Raja Varma (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valia Koyittampuran[13]
- Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (born 1890), Indian, Marathi-language poet; died in a train accident[10]
- Gobinda Rath (born 1848), Indian, Oriya-language poet and satirist[10]
- Govind Vasudev Kanitkar (born 1854), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator[10]
- Dora Sigerson (born 1866), Irish poet
[edit] Killed in World War I - January 28 – John McCrae, 35, Canadian poet, author of In Flanders Fields and lieutenant colonel serving as a field surgeon in the war, from pneumonia
- April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, 28, English war poet; killed in Fampoux in the Somme at dawn (there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat); first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926, his remains were identified and reinterred, at Bailleul Road East Cemetery[14][15], Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
- July 30 – Joyce Kilmer (born 1886), American, died in the Second Battle of Marne after volunteering to join Major William "Wild Bill" Donovan's First Battalion to lead the day's attack; while scouting, Kilmer was shot in the head near the village of Seringes, in France; he was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre.
- November 4 – Wilfred Owen (born 1893), English war poet is killed in action at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before World War I ends. (See Events)
- See also, Guillaume Apollinaire, below
[edit] Killed in the Great Flu Epidemic [edit] Awards and honors [edit] See also - ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r 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 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)
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Buttel, Robert. The Making of Harmonium. 1967: Princeton University Press, p. 86. See also the LibriVox site for the complete public domain poems of Wallace Stevens.[1]
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ 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 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
- ^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 35, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Mayhall, Poet Who Gained Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 90 New York Times, March 19, 2009, retrieved March 22, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ Bailleul Road east Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France at ww1cemeteries.com
- ^ CWGC :: Casualty Details at www.cwgc.org
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