Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Edmund Blunden, Masks of Time[2]
- Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years[2]
- Robert Bridges:
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet[2]
- C. Day Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems[2]
- T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
- Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose[2]
- Graham Greene, Babbling April[2]
- Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime[2]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw[2]
- Edwin Muir, First Poems[2]
- Edith Sitwell, Troy Park[2]
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier[2]
- J.R.R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess[2]
- W.B. Yeats, A Vision[2]
- Leonie Adams, Those Not Elect[3]
- Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams[3]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, Tiger Joy[3]
- Countee Cullen:
- On These I Stand, Harper & Row[4]
- Color[3]
- E. E. Cummings:
- &[3] (self-published)
- XLI Poems[3]
- Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock[3]
- Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), Collected Poems of H.D.
- John Gould Fletcher, Parables[3]
- Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden[3]
- Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion[3]
- William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives[3]
- Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth[3]
- Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, Paris[5]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt[3]
- Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides[3]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages - Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le cortege priapique, posthumously published (died 1918)[7]
- Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpétuel[8]
- Antonin Artaud:
- L'ombilic des limbes ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise[9]
- Le Pese-nerfs[9]
- André Breton, Clair de terre[8]
- Max Jacob, Les Penitants en maillots roses[8]
- Francis Jammes:
- Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions Spes[10]
- Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this year[10]
- Raymond Radiguet, Les Joues en feu, published posthumously (author died this year)[11]
- Pierre Reverdy, Grande Nature[8]
- Jules Supervielle, Gravitations[8]
- Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krsna Paksamu, very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature[12]
- Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Yenki Patalu[13] (another source spells the title as Enki patalu[12]; "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature;[13] a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava[12] "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri")[13]
- Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Jada Kucculu, lyrics
- Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Kinnerasani patalu (also rendered Kinnera Sani Patalu; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volume[12]
[edit] Other Indian languages - Altaf Husain Hali, Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors[12]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)[14]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-language[12]
- Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems[12]
- Rabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
- Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, Assamese[12]
- Syed jalal, Mahakmah-yi Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, Hali Ki inshapardazi par, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali[12]
- D. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem[12]
- Tripuraneni Ramaswami Choudhary, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos[12]
[edit] Other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 14 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫. pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
- February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
- February 22 – Gerald Stern, American
- February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
- March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
- March 13 – Inge Muller (died 1966) East German
- March 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
- April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
- June 6 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author; appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982
- August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
- August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
- August 16 – Bahtiyar Vahabzade (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet, philologist[17]
- October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
- October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scots poet, writer, artist — and gardener
- December 10 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
[edit] Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
- February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄, pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886), Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen)
- May 12 – Amy Lowell (born 1874), American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
- June 17 – Arthur Christopher Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
- November 27 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
- December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet
- date not known — Alfred Denis Godley
[edit] See also - ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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 m n Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b c d e 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 Web page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 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 e f g h i j k l m n 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
- ^ a b c Sarma, C.R., "Modern Indian Literature, An Anthology: Surveys and Poems", chapter in George, K. M., Modern Indian Literature, p 409, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1994, ISBN 8172013248, ISBN 9788172013240, retrieved June 2, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ "Famous Azerbaijani poet Bahtiyar Vahabzade died", article, February 13, 2009, Trend News Agency website, retrieved same day
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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