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Contents |
Events
- In Paris, Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career.
- E. C. McFarlane and others found the Jamaican Poetry League[1]
Works published in English
Canada
- Thom MacInnes, Complete Poems[2]
- Marjorie Pickthall, Angels' Shoes, posthumously published[2]
- E. J. Pratt, Newfoundland Verse, Canada[3]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, The Witching of Elspie[2]
Indian in English
- N. M. Chatterjee, India and Other Sonnets, Calcutta[4]
- S. K. De, A history of Sanskrit Poetics, one of the earliest accounts of Sanskrit literary theories in English; scholarship[5]
- Margaret MacNicol, Poems by Indian Women, Calcutta: Association Press, 98 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English[6]
- Oriental Blossoms, London: Heath Cranton; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Puran Singh, Unsung Beads, a work of Indian poetry in English on mystical experiences and with social and poltical themes[5]
United Kingdom
- Harold Acton, Aquarium[7]
- Edmund Blunden, To Nature[7]
- W. H. Davies, Collected Poems, second series; first series, 1916, see also Collected Poems, 1928; Poems, 934[7]
- Walter De La Mare, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of all Ages (anthology)
- John Drinkwater, Collected Poems, in three volumes, published 1923–1937[7]
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land published as a book; first published in 1922 in Criterion (October) and The Dial (November) without notes, and in The Dial , 73, in this form[7]
- Robert Graves, Whipperginny[7]
- D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United Kingdom in November; first published in the United States in October;[7] English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925)
- Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, the name used for this book), Annals of the Five Senses[7]
- John Masefield:
- Alice Meynell, Last Poems (posthumous)[7]
- Herbert Read, Mutations of the Phoenix[7]
- Edith Sitwell, Bucolic Comedies[7]
- Oriental Blossoms, London: Heath Cranton; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Osbert Sitwell, Out of the Flame[7]
- Jean Toomer, Cane
- William Butler Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan"Ireland and United Kingdom
United States
- Conrad Aiken, The Pilgrimage of Festus[8]
- Stephen Vincent Benet:
- Louise Bogan, Body of This Death[8]
- E. E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys
- Djuna Barnes, A Book, collection of prose and poetry
- Robert Frost, New Hampshire[8]
- D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United States in October, published in the United Kingdom in November, English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925)
- Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "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".[9] Stevens' first book, it was published by Knopf when the was in middle age (44 years old). Its first edition sold only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting that Mark Van Doren had it right when he wrote in The Nation in 1923, that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular."[10] Yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies was becoming a "multinational conglomerate".[11] (Revised edition, 1931.[9])
- Vachel Lindsay, Going-to-the-Sun[8]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems[8]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry[8]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Roman Bartholow[8]
- George Sterling, Selected Poems[8]
- Jean Toomer, Cane, a blend of poetry, fiction and dramatic sketches[12]
- Amos Wilder, Battle Retrospect, Yale University Press (this year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets)
- William Carlos Williams:
- Go Go
- Spring and All[8]
Other in English
- Shaw Neilson, Ballad and Lyrical Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
- William Butler Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Telugu language
- Bahar-e-Gulshan-e-Kashmir, anthology of traditional Kashmiri poetry, mostly the vatsans and ghazals of Mahmood Gami[5]
- Pendyalu Venkatasubrahmanya Shastri, critical account of the Mahabharata and its interpretation (second edition published in 1933), Telugu-language criticism[5]
- Penumarti Venkataratnam, Sandhya ragamu, romantic poems; a well-known work in the field of Telugu poetry[5]
Other in India
- Bharati, Kuyil Pattu-Kannan Pattu-Parata Arupattaru, consists of three works, including Kuyil Pattu, written in 1912, a long narrative poem of 741 lines, written in the traditional Kalivenpa meter, called "a landmark in the field of modern Tamil poetry" by Sisir Kumar Das; Parati Arupattaru, 66-verse autobiographical work[5]
- Chandra Kanta Agarwala, Binbaragi, 12 important poems about the past glory of Assam, ancient Assamese ballads strongly influenced the poems; Assamese language[5]
- G. Sankara Kurup, Sahitya Kantukam, lyrical Malayalam poems modelled on those of Vallathol Narayana Menon, with original themes, context and diction; the author later published three other volumes with the same title[5]
- Godavarish Mishra, Kisalaya, Oriya-language[5]
- Imam Baksh Nasikh, Divan-i Nasikh, two volumes, Urdu language[5]
- Jhaverchand Meghani, Veninan Phool (Gujarati-language[13]
- Kumaran Asan, Karuna, based on the Buddhist legend of Vasavadatta and Upagupta; the author's last poem and an extremely popular one; celebrates compassion (karuna), Malayalam language[5]
- Mahananda Sapkota, Manalahari, Nepali language[5]
- Mani Shankar Ralnaji Bhatt-Kant, Purvalap, a work with a conspicuous romantic mood and classical diction, considered a landmark of Gujarati poetry, according to Sisir Kumar Das; published on the day the poet died[5]
- Nagardas Amarjee Pandya, Rukmini-Harana, epic Sanskrit mahakavya on a mythological theme[5]
- Puran Singh, Khulle Maidan, blank verse, Punjabi language[5]
- Sarasvatibhai Bhide, editor, Abhinavakavyamala, Volume 5, Marathi-language anthology of moden women poets[5]
- Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol ("literally, "weird and random"), nonsense verse, Sisir Kumar Das has called it "one of the landmarks in the history of Bengali literature for children"[5]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Maricika, known for their innovative rhythm and imagery in Bengali poetry, very different from the followers of Rabindranath Tagore[5]
Other languages
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Peters Sejlads og andre Digte for Børn ("Peters Basketball and other Poems for Children"), Denmark
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Payam-i-Mashriq (Message from the East), a philosophical poetry book in Persian
Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize in Literature (International): William Butler Yeats
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
- Georg Büchner Prize (Germany): Adam Karrillon, German physician, novelist and poet
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 15 – Ivor Cutler (died 2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
- January 16 – Anthony Hecht (died 2004), American poet
- February 2 – James Dickey (died 1997), American poet and novelist
- March 21 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
- March 27 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet who won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- March 30 – Milton Acorn (died 1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright nicknamed "The People's Poet"
- April 3 – Daniel Hoffman, American poet, essayist, and academic who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress — a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, from 1973 to 1974
- May 19 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian poet and playwright
- July 2 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet, essayist and translator who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
- July 16 – Mari Evans, African American poet, author, playwright, academic and television producer
- September 22 – Dannie Abse, British poet and writer
- October 24 – Denise Levertov (died 1997), British-born American poet
- November 9 – James Schuyler (died 1991), American poet and a central figure in the New York School
- December 21 – Richard Hugo (born "Richard Hogan") (died 1982), American poet
- Also:
- Alan Dugan (died 2003), American poet
- Cola Franzen
- David Holbrook, English poet, writer and academic
- Pinkie Gordon Lane, African American[14]
- John Logan (poet) (died 1987), American poet
- Michalis Katsaros, Greek
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 – Katherine Mansfield, 34, New Zealand poet and prominent Modernist writer of short fiction
- December 15 – Frank Morton, Australian poet and journalist
- Also:
- Maurice Henry Hewlett (born 1861), English historical novelist, poet and essayist
- Sukumar Ray (born 1887), Bengali humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
Notes
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b c Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ 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 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 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 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 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009
- ^ Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 4
- ^ Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 11
- ^ Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 9780345423276, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 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
- ^ Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: African-American Poets, "Pinkie Gordon Lane" article by Marilyn B. Craig
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