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in China. * December –

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publishes the poem ''

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, ''Lyrics from the hills'' * Katherine Hale, ed.,''

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, ''Angels' Shoes'', posthumously published *

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, ''Newfoundland Verse'',

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, ''The Witching of Elspie'' Yeats1923

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''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)''
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''History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2''
1995, published by

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, ''Aquarium'' *

Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was als ...

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W. H. Davies William Henry Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer, who spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and the United States, yet became one of the most popular poets of his time. His themes inc ...

, ''Collected Poems'', second series; first series,

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1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

; ''Poems'',

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

Walter De La Mare Walter John de la Mare (; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for a highly acclaimed selection of ...

, ''Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of all Ages'' (anthology) * John Drinkwater, ''Collected Poems'', in three volumes, published 1923–

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* T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (

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, ''Whipperginny'' *

D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...

, ''Birds, Beasts and Flowers'', including "Snake", published in the United Kingdom in November; first published in the United States in October;

poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925) *

Hugh MacDiarmid Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Rena ...

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of Christopher Murray Grieve, the name used for this book), ''Annals of the Five Senses'' *

Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebra ...

, ''Poems'' (posthumous),

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John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ''The Midnight Folk'' and ''The Box of Delights'', and the poem ...

: ** ''Collected Poems'' ** ''King Cole, and Other Poems'' * Alice Meynell, ''Last Poems'' (posthumous) *

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, ''Little Mirrors'' (probable date) *

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, ''Mutations of the Phoenix'' *

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, published in the United Kingdom *

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, ''Out of the Flame'' *

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, ''Cane'' *

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, ''The Pilgrimage of Festus''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press *

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: ** ''King David'' ** ''The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790–1880'' *

Louise Bogan Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, ...

, ''Body of This Death'' *

E.E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

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Elsa Gidlow Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was a British-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, philosopher and humanitarian. She is best known for writing ''On a Grey Thread'' (1923), the first volume of openly Lesbian litera ...

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D.H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...

, ''Birds, Beasts and Flowers'', including "Snake", published in the United States in October, published in the United Kingdom in November,

poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925) *

Vachel Lindsay Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (; November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern ''singing poetry,'' as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. Early years Lindsay was born ...

, ''Going-to-the-Sun'' *

Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of he ...

, ''The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems'' *

Lizette Woodworth Reese Lizette Woodworth Reese (January 9, 1856 – December 17, 1935) was an American poet and teacher. Born in Maryland, she taught English for almost five decades in the schools of Baltimore. Though Reese was successful in prose as well as in poetry ...

, ''Wild Cherry'' *

Edward Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Early life Robins ...

, ''Roman Bartholow'' *

George Sterling George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the f ...

, ''Selected Poems'' *

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

, ''

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'', including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", " Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", "Sunday Morning", "Sea Surface Full of Clouds", and "In the Clear Season of Grapes".Web page title
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Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thin ...

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'' in 1923, that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular." Yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies was becoming a "multinational conglomerate". (Revised edition,

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, ''Cane'', a blend of poetry, fiction and dramatic sketchesFleming, 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, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 *

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, ''Battle Retrospect'', Yale University Press (this year's winner of the

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: ** ''Go Go'' ** ''Spring and All''

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, ''Lunar Baedecker'',

-born poet living and published in Paris *

Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Mel ...

, ''Ballad and Lyrical Poems'', Sydney, Bookfellow,

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Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director. He is widely recognized as a major figure of the E ...

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Francis Jammes Francis Jammes (; 2 December 1868, in Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées – 1 November 1938, in Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was a French and European poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his po ...

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, ''Le Cahier noir'' *

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...

of Sami Rosenstock, ''De nos oiseaux''Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982

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'' and its interpretation (second edition published in 1933),

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-language criticism * Penumarti Venkataratnam, ''Sandhya ragamu'', romantic poems; a well-known work in the field of

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Other in India

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, a long narrative poem of 741 lines, written in the traditional Kalivenpa meter, called "a landmark in the field of modern

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" by Sisir Kumar Das; ''Parati Arupattaru'', 66-verse autobiographical work * Chandra Kanta Agarwala, ''Binbaragi'', 12 important poems about the past glory of Assam, ancient Assamese ballads strongly influenced the poems; Assamese poetry, Assamese language * G. Sankara Kurup, ''Sahitya Kantukam'', lyrical Malayalam poetry, Malayalam poems modelled on those of Vallathol Narayana Menon, with original themes, context and diction; the author later published three other volumes with the same title * Godavarish Mishra, ''Kisalaya'', Oriya poetry, Oriya-language * Imam Baksh Nasikh, ''Divan-i Nasikh'', two volumes,

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(Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, ''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India'', Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008 * Kumaran Asan, ''Karuna'', based on the Buddhist legend of Vasavadatta and Upagupta; the author's last poem and an extremely popular one; celebrates compassion (''karuna''), Malayalam poetry, Malayalam language * Mahananda Sapkota, ''Manalahari'', Nepali poetry, Nepali language * Manishankar Bhatt "Kant", ''Purvalap'', a work with a conspicuous romantic mood and classical diction, considered a landmark of Gujarati poetry, according to Sisir Kumar Das; published on the day the poet died * Nagardas Amarjee Pandya, ''Rukmini-Harana'', epic Sanskrit poetry, Sanskrit ''mahakavya'' on a mythological theme *

, ''Khulle Maidan'', blank verse, Punjabi poetry, Punjabi language * Sarasvatibhai Bhide, editor, ''Abhinavakavyamala'', Volume 5, Marathi poetry, Marathi-language anthology of modern women poets * Sukumar Ray, ''Abol Tabol'' ("literally, "weird and random"), nonsense verse, Sisir Kumar Das has called it "one of the landmarks in the history of Bengali poetry, Bengali literature for children" * Yatindranath Sengupta, ''Maricika'', known for their innovative rhythm and imagery in Bengali poetry, very different from the followers of Rabindranath Tagore

Spanish poetry, Spain

* Juan Ramón Jiménez: **''Belleza'' ("Beauty")Debicki, Andrew P.
''Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond''
p 15, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 **''Poesía'' ("Poetry") * Pedro Salinas, ''Presagios'' ("Presages")

Other languages

* Otto Gelsted, ''Reklameskibet'' ("The Show Boat"), Danish poetry, Denmark * Enrique González Rojo, Sr., ''El puerto y otros poemas'', Mexican poetry, Mexico * Sir Muhammad Iqbal, ''Payam-i-Mashriq'' (''Message from the East''), philosophical poetry in

* Vladislav Khodasevich, ''Heavy Lyre'', Russian poetry, Russian poet published in Germany * Hendrik Marsman, ''Verzen'', Dutch poetry, Netherlands * Vladimir Mayakovsky, ''About That'', Russian poetry, Soviet Russia * Pablo Neruda, ''Crepusculario'' ("Book of Twilights"), Latin American poetry, Chile * Rainer Maria Rilke, ''Duino Elegies'' and ''Sonnets to Orpheus'', Austrian literature, Austria * J. Slauerhoff, ''Archipel'' ("Archipelago"), Dutch-language literature, Netherlands * David Vogel (poet), David Vogel, ''Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel'' ("Before the Dark Gate"), Modern Hebrew poetry, Hebrew language, published in Vienna, the only book of poems published in the author's lifetime

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize in Literature (International):

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (

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, ''The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany'' * Georg Büchner Prize (German poetry, Germany): Adam Karrillon, German physician, novelist and poet

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 9 – David Holbrook (died 2011 in poetry, 2011),

poet, novelist and academic * January 13 – Pinkie Gordon Lane (died 2008 in poetry, 2008), African American poetry, American poet''Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: African-American Poets'', "Pinkie Gordon Lane" article by Marilyn B. Craig * January 15 – Ivor Cutler (died 2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist * January 16 – Anthony Hecht (died 2004 in poetry, 2004), American poetry, American poet * January 23 – John Logan (poet), John Logan (died 1987 in poetry, 1987), American poetry, American poet * February 2 – James Dickey (died 1997 in poetry, 1997), American poetry, American poet and novelist * February 4 – Cola Franzen (died 2018 in poetry, 2018), American poetry, American translator * February 12 – Alan Dugan (died 2003 in poetry, 2003), American poetry, American poet * March 18 – Ryūichi Tamura 田村隆 (died 1998 in poetry, 1998), Japanese poetry, Japanese Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry * March 21 – Nizar Qabbani (died 1998 in poetry, 1998), Arabic poetry, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher * March 27 – Louis Simpson (died 2012 in poetry, 2012), Jamaican-born American poetry, American poet, winner of the 1964 in poetry, 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry * March 30 – Milton Acorn (died 1986), Canadian poetry, Canadian poet, writer and playwright nicknamed "The People's Poet" * April 3 ** Daniel Hoffman (died 2013 in poetry, 2013), American poetry, American poet, essayist and academic serving as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a position later known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry) from 1973 in poetry, 1973 to 1974 in poetry, 1974 ** John Ormond (died 1990 in poetry, 1990), Welsh poetry, Welsh poet and journalist * May 21 – Dorothy Hewett (died 2002 in poetry, 2002), Australian poetry, Australian feminist poet, playwright and novelist * June 24 – Yves Bonnefoy (died 2016 in poetry, 2002), French poetry, French poet * June 29 – Pablo García Baena (died 2018 in poetry, 2018), Spanish poetry, Spanish poet * July 2 – Wisława Szymborska (died 2012), Polish literature, Polish poet, essayist and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 in poetry, 1996 * July 16 – Mari Evans (died 2017 in poetry, 2017), African-American poetry, American poet, author, playwright, academic and television producer * September 13 – Miroslav Holub (died 1998 in poetry, 1998), Czech poetry, Czech poet and immunologist * September 22 – Dannie Abse (died 2014 in poetry, 2014), Welsh poetry, Welsh poet and writer * October 9 – Haim Gouri (died 2018 in poetry, 2018), Israeli poetry, Israeli poet in Modern Hebrew poetry, Hebrew, novelist and documentary filmmaker * October 24 – Denise Levertov (died 1997), English-born American poetry, American poet * November 9 – James Schuyler (died 1991 in poetry, 1991), American poetry, American poet and a central figure in the New York School (art), New York School * November 22 – Tu An (蒋壁厚, ''Jiǎng Bìhoù''; died 2017 in poetry, 2017), Chinese poetry, Chinese poet and translator * December 21 – Richard Hugo, born Richard Hogan (died 1982 in poetry, 1982), American poetry, American poet * December 20 – Aco Šopov (died 1982 in poetry, 1982) Macedonian literature, Macedonian poet * Also – Nanao Sakaki (died 2008 in poetry, 2008), Japanese poetry, Japanese poet and leading personality of The Tribe (Buzoku), "The Tribe" (''Buzoko''), a counter-cultural group (surname: Sakaki)

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 9 –

, 34 (born 1888 in poetry, 1888),

-born poet and prominent Modernist writer of short fiction * May – :cy:J. Brynach Davies, J. Brynach Davies (Brynach), c.50 (born 1873 in Wales, 1873), Welsh poetry, Welsh poet and journalist * June 15 – Maurice Hewlett, 62 (born 1861 in poetry, 1861),

historical novelist, poet and essayist * August 10 – Laura Redden Searing, 84 (born 1839 in poetry, 1839), deaf American poetry, American poet and journalist * September 10 – Sukumar Ray, 35 (born 1887 in poetry, 1887), Bengali poetry, Bengali humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright * October 12 – John Cadvan Davies (Cadfan), 77 (born 1846 in poetry, 1846), Welsh poetry, Welsh poet and hymn-writer * December 15 – Frank Morton (journalist), Frank Morton, 53 (born 1869 in poetry, 1869), English-born Australian poet and journalist * December 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, 94 (born 1829 in poetry, 1829), American poetry, American poet; occasional author of short sketches and stories

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Other in India

Spanish poetry, Spain

Other languages

Awards and honors

Births

Deaths

See also

Notes

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