1925 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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]
Other in English
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:
- Jayashankar Prasad, Asu, Chayavadi poem on love and beauty[6]
- Maithilisharan Gupta, Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legend[6]
- Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, Achuta, verses on social and political problems[6]
- Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krsna Paksamu, very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature[6]
- Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Yenki Patalu ("The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature; "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")[7]
- Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Jada Kucculu, lyrics
- Venkata Subba Rao Nanduri, Enki patalu, prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her husband, Naidu[6]
- Visvanatha, Kinnera Sani Patalu, lyrical epic in seven cantos[6]
- Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Kokilamma Pelli and Kinnerasani patalu, two works published in the same volume[6]
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[6]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)[8]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-language[6]
- Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems[6]
- Rabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
- Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, Assamese[6]
- 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[6]
- D. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem[6]
- Tripuraneni Ramaswami Choudhary, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos[6]
Other languages
Awards and honors
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[9]
- 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
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
See also
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "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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