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Events
- Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
- American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946[1]
- Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there[1]
- W. H. Davies, Collected Poems[1]
- T. S. Eliot:
- "Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.[2]
- H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798-1837: 1798-1837, Clarndon Press, anthology[3]
- Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
- D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems[1]
- John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse[1]
- Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death[1]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey[1]
- A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse[1]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- The Silver Cat, and Other Poems[1]
- This Blind Rose[1]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):
- The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
- The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)[1]
United States
- W. H. Auden, Poems[4]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body[4]
- E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree[4]
- John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock[4]
- Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
- Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill[4]
- Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems[4]
- William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth[4]
- Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish[4]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem[4]
- Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow[4]
- Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun[4]
- Ezra Pound:
- Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London[5], American poet living in Europe
- A Draft of the Cantos 17–27[4]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927[4]
- Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America[4]
- Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems,[4] including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
- Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
- Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath[4]
- Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project
Other in English
- V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English[6]
- John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
- Shyam Sunder Lal, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporewalla Sons and Co.; India, Indian poetry in English[6]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
- The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)[1]
Works published in other languages
France
- René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeur[7]
- Léon-Paul Fargue:
- Francis Jammes, Diane[9]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Noces[8]
- Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes[7]
- Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu[8]
- Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond[8]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur[8]
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:
- Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila",[10] Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"),[10] long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language;[11] a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet[10]
- Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese[10]
- Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales[10]
- Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu[10]
- Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri[10]
Spain
- Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poems; Spain[12]
- Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads")
- Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)[12]
Other languages
- Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
- Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)[13]
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
- January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, American
- February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
- March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
- March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter[11]
- April 4 – Maya Angelou, African-American poet
- April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
- May 4 – Thomas Kinsella Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
- June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher
- July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
- September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
- September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
- September 22 – Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
- November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
- December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic[14]
- Also:
- Carol Bergé
- R. F. Brissenden
- Don Coles, Canadian
- William Dickey (poet), American
- Dave Etter, American
- Gene Frumkin, American
- Conrad Hilberry, American
- Hertha Kraftner (died 1951), German[15]
- Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu) (pen name of Mo Luofu), Chinese poet, writer and translator[16]
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
- February 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
- February 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarian
- March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen
- March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
- May 16 – Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
- July 20 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek
- August 16 – Antonín Sova
- September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (1885–1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
- December 16 – Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition) pp. 39-40, 218, 219, 223 (Harcourt Brace & World 1969)
- ^ Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p353; also Google Books page
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b 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 Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c d e f 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
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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 Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- ^ a b Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 42, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ International League of Antiquarian Booksellers website, search results for this name, retrieved January 1, 2009
- ^ "Poet Milan Rufus Dies in Bratislava", article, January 11, website of TASR (News Agency of the Slovak Republic), retrieved same day
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
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