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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
- T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship
Works published
India in English
- Swami Ananda Acharya, Sara and other poems, Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages[1]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets, Indian poetry in English[2]
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler, Indian poetry in English[2]
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[3]
Ireland
- James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
- W.B. Yeats:
- October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
- Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction[4]
United Kingdom
- G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems[4]
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar[4]
- T. S. Eliot:
- "The Journey of the Magi"[4]
- "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in December in Saturday Review of Literature. It was also published in January, 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine.
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[3]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26[4]
- A.A. Milne, Now We are Six[4]
- Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies[4]
- Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed[4]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- W.B. Yeats:
United States
- Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament[5]
- Countee Cullen, Copper Sun[6]
- Donald Davidson, The Tall Men[5]
- Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew[7]
- Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur[5]
- James Weldon Johnson:
- God's Trombones[5]
- God's Promises
- Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale[5]
- John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
- Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel,[5] presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
- Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)
- Ezra Pound, Exile
Other in English
- Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia
Works published in other languages
France
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)[8]
- Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques[9]
- Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
- Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.[10]
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
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:
Bengali
- Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali[2]
- Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali[2]
- Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali [2]
Other Indian languages
- Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi[2]
- Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India[2]
- Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu[2]
Other languages
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Klemtende hjærte. Udvalgte digte fra ti aar og nye, Denmark
- Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs"), Spain
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
- April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the Academy of American Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 – Gunter Grass, German author and poet
- October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
- October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American
- Also:
- Henry Coulette
- David Diop
- Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
- Molly Holden (died 1981)
- Judson Jerome, American
- Richard Moore, American poet and academic
- Richard Murphy, Irish poet
- John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented.
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 6 – Florence Earle Coates, American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia.
- July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
- September 14 – Hugo Ball, 41, German author and poet.
- October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet
- October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese (surname: Yagi)
- Also:
- Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet
- Emma Marie Caillard
- Charles Mair, Canadian poet
See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry
Notes
- ^ Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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 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 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 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ 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
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Michaux, Henri, edited by David Ball, Henri Michaux: Anthology 1927-1984 Selected, Translated and Presented by David Ball, Introduction by David Ball, p xxii, Footnote 4, University of California Press, 1997, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
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