1922 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
- Edmund Blunden, The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War[2]
- Hilda Conkling, Shoes of the Wind
- John Drinkwater, Preludes 1921–1922[2]
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land first published in Criterion i (October) and in The Dial (November) without notes; and in The Dial, 73, with notes; published in book form in 1923, with notes[2]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Krindlesdyke[2]
- Thomas Hardy, Late Lyrics and Earlier, with Many Other Verses[2]
- A. E. Housman, Last Poems[2]
- Hughes Mearns, "Antigonish" (written in 1899, published in 1922)
- Alfred Noyes, The Watchers of the Sky, Volume i of the "Torch-Bearers Trilogy", followed by The Book of the Earth (1925), The Last Voyage (1930), published as The Torch-Bearers (1937)[2]
- Marjorie Pickthall, The Wood Carver's Wife, including "Marching Men"
- Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, second series
- Edith Sitwell, Facade, the concert version, with music by William Walton, performed January 1922[2]
- Sacheverell Sitwell, The Hundred and One Harlequins, and Other Poems[2]
- J. C. Squire, Poems: Second Series
- Sir William Walton's composition, Façade, a musical setting of 21 poems by Edith Sitwell
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Later Poems, Macmillan's Collected Edition of Yeats's Works, volume i[2]
- Plays in Prose and Verse, Macmillan's Collected Edition of Yeats's Works, volume ii[2]
- Conrad Aiken, Priapus and the Pool[3]
- John Peale Bishop, with Edmund Wilson, The Undertaker's Garland[3]
- John Dos Passos, A Pushcart at the Curb[3]
- James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry
- Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows
- Louise Pound, American Ballads and Songs[3]
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Under the Tree[3]
- Carl Sandburg, Slabs of the Sunburnt West[3]
- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies[3]
- John Hall Wheelock, The Black Panther[3]
- William Carlos Williams:
- Yvor Winters, The Magpie's Shadow[3]
Other
- Wilfred Campbell, The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell, posthumously published, Canada[4]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Later Poems, Macmillan's Collected Edition of Yeats's Works, volume i[2]
- Plays in Prose and Verse, Macmillan's Collected Edition of Yeats's Works, volume ii[2]
Works published in other languages
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 22 – Vernon Scannell (died 2007), British poet, author and at one time a professional boxer who has written novels involving the sport
- March 12 – Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation school of poetry
- April 16 – Kingsley Amis, English writer and poet
- May 21 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright
- June 9 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (died 1941) Anglo–American aviator and poet
- June 30 – Amulya Barua (died 1946), first published posthumously in 1964; Indian, writing in Assamese
- July 17 – Donald Davie, English poet and critic who belonged to the Movement
- August 9 – Philip Larkin (died 1985), English poet, novelist and jazz critic
- August 26 – Elizabeth Brewster, Canadian poet and academic
- September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, (died 2004) American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
- November 25 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子 (died 1954), Japanese tanka poet who died at age 32 after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry
- December 3 – Eli Mandel (died 1992) was a Canadian poet and literary academic
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs, 59, American author, satirist, poet and the creator of Bangsian fantasy, a school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife
- February 3 – John Butler Yeats, poet
- March 18 – Tamura Ryuichi 田村隆 (died 1998), Japanese Showa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry
- May 13 – Walter Alexander Raleigh (born 1861), Scottish scholar, poet and author
- July 8 – Mori Ōgai 森 鷗外 / 森 鴎外 (born 1862), Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet
- September 2 – Henry Lawson, 55, Australian writer and poet
- September 10 – Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 82 (born 1840), British poet and writer
- November 27 – Alice Meynell, 75 (born 1847), née Thompson, English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet
- December 4 – Josephine Peabody (born c. 1874, American poet and playwright
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d 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 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 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ "Craig, Alexander (a.k.a. Craig, Leslie; Craig, Alexander Leslie )". AustLit Database. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2B$C. Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
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