1917 in poetry
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Events
- July — Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where on August 17 Wilfred Owen introduces himself. With his encouragement, Owen writes Dulce et Decorum Est (published posthumously in 1921). The work's horrifying imagery later makes it one of the most popular condemnations of war ever written.
- July — Last issue of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, founded by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915 and publishing poetry and other writing, as well as visual art; contributors included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, and Lola Ridge
- July — With the United States not yet fighting in World War I, Americans John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings and Robert Hillyer volunteer for the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.
- November — Publication of The Muse in Arms, an anthology of British war poetry.
- T. S. Eliot takes over as editor of The Egoist, a London literary monthly, when Richard Aldington leaves for the British Army
- The Little Review moves from Chicago to New York City with the help of Ezra Pound
- Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in New Youth magazine titled ""A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasized eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points).
Works published in English
Australia
- Arthur Henry Adams, Australian Nursery Rimes, Australia
- C. J. Dennis:
- The Glugs of Gosh
- Doreen
- Henry Lawson, "Scots of the Riverina", Australia
United Kingdom
- Rupert Brooke, Selected Poems[1]
- Richard Church, The Flood of Life[1]
- Walter de la Mare, The Sunken Garden, and Other Poems[1]
- John Drinkwater, Tides[1]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems (American poet published in the UK)
- T. S. Eliot:
- Prufrock, and other observations[1]
- Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry (criticism)[2]
- Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers[1]
- Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme[1]
- Thomas Hardy:
- John Masefield, Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems[1]
- Alice Meynell, A Father of Women, and Other Poems[1]
- George William Russell ("AE"), Salutation[1]
- Vita Sackville-West, Poems of East and West[1]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems[1]
- Edward Thomas, Poems (posthumous) (including Adlestrop)
- Sir William Watson, The Man Who Saw, and Other Poems Arising Out of the War[1]
- Charles Williams, Poems of Conformity[1]
- W. B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse (Irish poet)
- Some Imagist Poets third and final anthology; this effectively marks the end of the Imagist movement
United States
- Conrad Aiken, Nocturne of Remembered Spring[2]
- John Peale Bishop, Green Fruit[2]
- Witter Bynner, grenstone Poems[2]
- Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), Pro Patria A 16-page pamphlet of seven war poems published privately in Philadelphia in support of American involvement in World War I.
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems American poet published in the United Kingdom
- Edgar A. Guest, Just Folks[2]
- Archibald MacLeish, Tower of Ivory[2]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems[2]
- James Oppenheim, The Book of Self[2]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Merlin[2]
- George Sterling, Thirty-five Sonnets[2]
- Sara Teasdale, Love Songs[2]
- William Carlos Williams, A Book of Poems: Al Que Quiere![2]
Other in English
- Nizamat Jung, Sonnets, London: Erskine Macdonald; India, Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[3]
- Sarojini Naidu, The Broken Wing, London; India, Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[3]
- E.J. Pratt, Rachel: a sea story of Newfoundland, private.[4] Canada.
Works published in other languages
France
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Vitam impendere amori[5]
- Max Jacob, Le cornet a dés[6]
- Philippe Soupault, Aquarium[6]
- Paul Valéry, La Jeune Parque[7]
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:
- Balawantrai Thakore, Bhanakar, Gujarati language[8]
- Ci. Subrahamaniya Bharati, Kannan Pattu, Tamil language[9]
- C. R. Sahasrabuddha, Kakaduta, a parody (a book with the same name by a different author was published in 1940), Sanskrit language[9]
- Daulat Ram, Raja Gopi Cand, long narrative poem in the traditional genre of "Kissa", about the legend of Raja Gopi Chand, Punjabi language[9]
- Duvvuri Rami Reddi, Nalajaramma agnipravesamu, Telugu language[9]
- Hiteshwar Bar Barua, Desdimona Kavya, narrative poem inspired by Shakespeare's ' 'Othello' ', Assamese language[9]
- Hiteshwar Barua, Angila, Assamese language[9]
- Vallathol Narayana Menon, also known simply as "Vallathol", Sahityamanjari, Part I, Malayalam language[9]
Other
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Faunedans, Denmark
- Gottfried Benn, Fleisch, Germany[10]
- Stefan George, Der Krieg ("The War"); German[11]
- Ulric-L. Gingras, La chanson du paysans; French language;, Canada[12]
- Juan Ramón Jiménez, Diario de un poeta recién casado ("Diary of a Newly Married Poet"; later retitled Diario de poeta y mar ["Diary of Poet and Sea"), Spain[13]
- Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla ("Fields of Castile"), enlarged edition (first edition 1912); Spain[13]
- Julio Molina Núñez and Juan Agustín Araya. Selva lírica, preparada, anthology, including work by Gabriela Mistral; Chile[14]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Robert Lowell, American
- April 19 – Johannes Bobrowski (died 1965), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
- October 12 – James McAuley (dies 1976), Australian poet
- December 30 – Yun Dong-ju, (died 1945), Korean poet (surname: Yoon; also spelled "Yoon Dong-joo" and "Yun Tong-ju")
- Also:
- Samuel W. Allen, African American
- Margaret T. G. Burroughs African American
- Judson Crews, American
- Takis Sinopoulos, Greek
- Rainer Brambach (died 1983), German[15]
- Abdus Sattar Ranjoor Kashmiri (died 1990), Indian, Kashmiri-language[9]
- Gopal Prasad Rimal (died 1973), Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwright[9]
- Kamakshi Prasad Chattopadhyay (died 1976), Indian, Bengali-language poet and fiction writer[9]
- P. N. Pushp, Indian, Kashmiri-language[9]
- Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez (died 2009), journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller (surname: Rodriguez Velez)[16]
- Sampath (poet), pen name of Raghavacharya Sankhavaram, Indian, Telugu poet[9]
- Themis (poet), Indian poet in the Aurobindoean School[9]
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 25 – Maksim Bahdanovič, 25, Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic, of tuberculosis.
- Also:
Killed in World War I
- April 9:
- Edward Thomas, poet and prose writer, killed in action during the Battle of Arras, soon after he arrived in France.
- R. E. Vernède, war poet, died after being wounded by machine gun fire while leading an advance at Havrincourt
- July 31, both killed in the Battle of Passchendaele near Ypres, Belgium:
- Francis Ledwidge, 25 (born 1887), Irish war poet sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds"; killed in action
- Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet, killed while serving with 15th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, at Pilckem Ridge
- September 28 – T. E. Hulme, 30 (born 1883), influential English poetry critic
Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, a Danish poet and novelist, shares the award with fellow Dane Henrik Pontoppidan
See also
- List of years in poetry
- Dada
- Imagism
- Modernist poetry in English
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
- Expressionism movement in German poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ 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 ("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)
- ^ a b Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b 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 0-394-52197-8
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ 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 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Poet: Gottfried Benn", at Poetry Foundation website, retrieved December 16, 2009
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ a b Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, pp 11 (Machado), 14 (Jimenez), University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Gabriela Mistral/Cronologia 1889-1921", at the Centro Virtual Cervantes website, retrieved September 22, 2010
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ "Panamanian writer Rodriguez Velez dies", article, January 11, 2009, United Press International website; also "Panama Writer Mario Augusto Rodriguez Dies", January 11, Latin American Herald Tribune, both retrieved same day
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