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 - John Betjeman, Mount Zion; or, In Touch with the Infinite[2]
- Laurence Binyon, Collected Poems[2]
- Edmund Blunden:
- Robert Bridges, Shorter Poems[2]
- Roy Campbell, The Georgiad,[2] a satire openly attacking the Bloomsbury Group; a South African native published in the United Kingdom
- C. Day Lewis, From Feathers to Iron[2]
- T. S. Eliot:
- Coriolan
- Triumphal March[2]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1926–1930[2]
- Aldous Huxley:
- The Cicadas, and Other Poems[2]
- The World of Light; A comedy, a verse drama performed March 30[2]
- John Lehmann, A Garden Revisited, and Other Poems[2]
- AE, pen name of George William Russell, Vale, and Other Poems[2]
- Osbert Sitwell, The Collected Satires and Poems[2]
- William Soutar, Conflict[2]
- Arthur Symons, Jezbel Mort, and Other Poems (sic)[2]
- Humbert Wolfe, Snow[2]
- Franklin P. Adams, Christopher Columbus[3]
- Conrad Aiken:
- The Coming Forth by Day of Osris Jones[3]
- Preludes for Memnon[3]
- E. E. Cummings, W (ViVa)[3]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Red Roses for Bronze
- Langston Hughes, The Negro Mother[3]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview[3]
- Ogden Nash:
- Free Wheeling[3]
- Hard Lines[3]
- Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes[3]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Mathias at the Door[3]
- Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," "The Comedian as the Letter C" "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Sunday Morning," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, revised from the 1923 edition".[4]
- Mark Van Doren, Jonathan Gentry[3]
- Yvor Winters, The Journey[3]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages - Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le condor et le morpion, posthumously published (died 1918)[6]
- Louis Aragon:
- Hourra l'Oural, influenced by the author's conversion to Marxism[7]
- Persécuté Persécuteur[8]
- André Breton, L'union libre[8]
- Francis Jammes, L'Arc-en-ciel des amours, Paris: Bloud et Gay[9]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces[8]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, L'Homme approximatif[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: - Atul Prasad Sen, Gitigunja, complete collection of songs by this Bengali poet and composer[10]
- Bal Krisna Rav, Kaumudi, Indian, Hindi-language[10]
- Bhagavadacharya, Mohanapancadhydyi, Sanskrit poem on Mahatma Gandhi[10]
- Chanda Jha, Candra Padyavali, edited by Baladev Mishra, Maithili poetryMaithili[10]
- D. K. Kelkar, Kavyalocan, a treatise in Marathi on literary theory; discusses the nature of poetry, figures of speech, the nature of poetic pleasure and Indian literary concepts[10]
- K. V. Simon, Veda Viharam, long poem based on the book of Genesis; India, Malayalam language[11]
- Mahjoor, Nav Baharo Myani Locaro Ho, Kashmiri[10]
- Mayadhar Mansinha, Dhupa, poems in this collection remained very popular as of the mid 1990s; Oriya[10]
- Mohan Singh Diwana, Jagat Tamasa, Punjabi (a 1927 novel by Charan Singh Sahid has the same title)[10]
- Raja K. K., Baspanjali, Malayalam work by a poet of the Vallathol school[10]
- Siyaram Sharan Gupta, Atmostsarga, on the self-sacrifice of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi in the cause of communal peace; Hindi[10]
- Tallapragada Visvasundaramma, Ratri, including many patriotic poems; Telugu[10]
- Umashankar Joshi, Vishwashanti, also spelled "Visvasanti"[10] (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[12]
- V. Seetharamayya, Gitagalu, the author's first book of poetry, with navodaya lyrics more intellectual than most; Kannada[10]
[edit] Other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 6 – P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster
- January 14 – Ahmed Faraz, pseudonym of Syed Ahmad Shah (died 2008), Pakistani Urdu-language poet, son of Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, a leading traditional poet[14]
- February 2 – Judith Viorst, American author known for her children's books and poetry
- April 15 – Ruth Fainlight, Swedish poet, short story writer, translator and librettist
- April 19 – Etheridge Knight, (died 1991), an African-American poet
- May 16 – Peter Levi, (died 2000), professor of poetry at Oxford University and an English poet, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and critic
- May 27 – O. N. V. Kurup, Indian, Malayalam language
- June 13 – Jay Macpherson, Canadian lyric poet and scholar; she is a member of the "mythopoeic school of poetry"
- June 21 – Patricia Goedicke, poet
- July 28 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist
- December 15 – Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎, Japanese poet and translator (surname: Tanikawa)
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - March 16 – Harold Edward Monro, 54, British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
- April 2 – Katharine Tynan, 70 (born 1861), Irish poet, novelist and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"
- April 10 – Khalil Gibran, 48, poet artist, and writer born in Lebanon who spent much of his productive life in the United States
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet
- December 5 – Vachel Lindsay (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay), 42 (born 1879, American poet and early advocate of jazz poetry, a suicide by poison
[edit] See also - ^ a b "Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry", p xviii, in Brenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521587129, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Pandya, Haresh, "Ahmed Faraz, Outspoken Urdu Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, The New York Times, September 1, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008 ("He was earlier reported to have died while being treated in a Chicago hospital after a fall in Baltimore, but he returned to his homeland, where he died.")
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