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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Contents |
Events
- Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein
Works published in English
Canada
- Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems[1]
- Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets[1]
- J. D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses[1]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.[1]
- Frederick George Scott, The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems[1]
United Kingdom
- AE (George William Russell), By Still Waters[2]
- Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight[2]
- John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems[2]
- Walter de la Mare, Poems[2]
- C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain[3]
- Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II[3]
- D. Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland[4]
- Alfred Noyes:
- Drake[2]
- "The Highwayman", a ballad
- Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, 'Twixt Earth and Stars[2]
- Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems[2]
- W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[2]
United States
- Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?[5]
- William Ellery Leonard, Sonnets and Poems[5]
- Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, five volumes, published from this year to 1964[5]
Other in English
- W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthology[6]
- W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[2]
Works published in other languages
France
- Francis Jammes:
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Sept Solitudes[9]
Other languages
- Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh, an appraisal of the works of poet Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh (Indian, writing in Gujarati) (criticism)[10]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Showa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group that also included Kawabata Bosha; founded a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
- January 19 – Robin Hyde (died 1939), New Zealand
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
- May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
- June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
- June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
- August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet, and novelist
- August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
- September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
- September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw, American (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
- September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese Showa period haiku poet and novelist
- September 27 – Sir William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
- October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
- November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
- December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Also:
- Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
- Bruce Charles, Canadian[3]
- Mary Finnin, Australian[11]
- Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer, philosopher
- James Picot (died 1944), Australian[12]
- A. J. Wood, Australian
Deaths
- February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (born 1872), American
- March 31 – James McIntyre (born 1826), Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
- date not known – Martha Browne[3]
Awards and honors
See also
- 20th century in poetry
- 20th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- French literature of the 20th century
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d Web page titled "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p 633
- ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Mary Finnin". Oldpoetry.com. n. d.. http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Mary_Finnin. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ "Picot, James (Jim) (1906–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150714b.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
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