Events
* January –Works published
Canadian poetry, Canada
* Arthur Bourinot, ''Pattering Feet: A book of childhood verses''. * Archibald Lampman, ''Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads'', Duncan Campbell Scott ed. Posthumously published—not to be confused with Lampman's 1895 in poetry, 1895 book of the same name.Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books * Marjorie Pickthall: **''Little Songs'' (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart) **''The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall'' (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart).Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: WorksIndian poetry, India Indian poetry in English, in English
* Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, ''Seeking and Other Poems'' (Poetry in English), Allahabad: The Indian Press Vinayak Krishna GokakEnglish poetry, United Kingdom
* Edmund Blunden, ''Masks of Time'' * Gordon Bottomley, ''Poems of Thirty Years'' * Robert Bridges: ** ''New Verse Written in 1921'' which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics ** ''The Tapestry: Poems'' * W. H. Davies, ''A Poet's Alphabet'' * Cecil Day-Lewis, ''Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems'' * T. S. Eliot, ''Poems 1909-1925'', including "The Hollow Men" * 'Gawain Poet' (14th century), ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon * Robert Graves, ''Welchman's Hose'' * Graham Greene, ''Babbling April'' * Thomas Hardy, ''Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles'', the last work published in the author's lifetime * Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, ''Sangshaw'' * Edwin Muir, ''First Poems'' * Edith Sitwell, ''Troy Park'' * Sylvia Townsend Warner, ''The Espalier'' * Humbert Wolfe, ''The Unknown Goddess'' * W. B. Yeats, ''A Vision''American poetry, United States
* Léonie Adams, ''Those Not Elect''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press * Maxwell Anderson, ''You Who Have Dreams'' * Stephen Vincent Benét, ''Tiger Joy'' * Countee Cullen: **''On These I Stand'', Harper & RowRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, ''The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry'', W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ** ''Color'' * E. E. Cummings: ** ''&'' (self-published) ** ''XLI Poems'' * Babette Deutsch, ''Honey Out of the Rock'' * Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), ''Collected Poems of H.D.'' * John Gould Fletcher, ''Parables'' * Robert Hillyer, ''The Halt in the Garden'' * Robinson Jeffers, ''Roan Stallion'' * William Ellery Leonard, ''Two Lives'' * Archibald MacLeish, ''The Pot of Earth'' *Other in English
* W. B. Yeats, ''A Vision'', Irish poetry, IrelandWorks published in other languages
Indian poetry, 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:Hindi poetry, Hindi
* Jayashankar Prasad, poem on love and beautyDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and variousTelugu poetry, Telugu
* Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, , a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature * Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Sarma, C.R.Other Indian languages
* Altaf Husain Hali, , 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry, Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943 in poetry, 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors * Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, (Indian poetry, Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati poetry, Gujarati) * Dimbeshwar Neog, , Assamese poetry, Assamese-language * Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, , Marathi poetry, Marathi satirical and humorous poems * Rabindranath Thakur, , Bengali poetry, Bengali, includes love poems * Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, , Assamese poetry, Assamese * Syed jalal, , work of Urdu poetry, Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, Nazir Ahmad, Shibli Nomani, Shibli, Muhammad Husain Azad, Azad, and Maulana Hali, Hali * D. T. Tatacharya, , satirical Sanskrit poetry, Sanskrit poem * Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, , Telugu poetry, Telugu epic in four cantosSpanish language
* Rafael Alberti, ("Sailor on Land"); Spanish poetry, SpainDebicki, Andrew P.Other languages
* Sophus Claussen, , including ("Revolt of the Atoms"), Danish poetry, DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications * Uri Zvi Greenberg, ("A Great Fear and the Moon"), Modern Hebrew poetry, Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine * Lionel Léveillé, , French language, Canadian poetry, Canada * Eugenio Montale, ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928 in poetry, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931 in poetry, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; Italian poetry, ItalyEugenio Montale, ''Collected Poems 1920-1954'', translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998,Awards and honors
* The Dial, Dial Award: E.E. Cummings * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, ''The Man Who Died Twice''Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 14 – Yukio Mishima , pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (died 1970 in poetry, 1970), Japanese poetry, Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima) * January 20 – Jamiluddin Aali (died 2015 in poetry, 2015), Indian-born Urdu poetry, Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar * February 8 – Francis Webb (poet), Francis Webb (died 1973 in poetry, 1973) Australian poetry, Australian poet * February 20 – Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Lithuanian-born Yiddish poetry, Yiddish poet and teacher * February 22 – Gerald Stern, American poetry, American * February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002 in poetry, 2002) American poetry, American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School (art), New York School" of poetry * March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005 in poetry, 2005) Greek poetry, Greek poet and critic * March 13 – Inge Müller (died 1966 in poetry, 1966) East German poetry, German * March 14 – John Wain (died 1994 in literature, 1994) English poetry, English poet, novelist and critic associated with the literary group The Movement (literature), The Movement. * March 25 – Theodore Enslin (died 2011 in poetry, 2011), American poetry, American * April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986 in literature, 1986), American poetry, American Beat poet and surrealist * June 6 – Maxine Kumin (died 2014 in poetry, 2014), American poetry, American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982 * July 4 – Ciril Zlobec (died 2018 in poetry, 2018), Slovene poetry, Slovene poet and politician * August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000 in poetry, 2000), Austrian literature, Austrian poet, author and translator * August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004 in poetry, 2004), American poetry, American poet and writing teacher * August 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009 in poetry, 2009), Azerbaijani poetry, Azerbaijani poet and Philology, philologist * September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011 in poetry, 2011), American poetry, American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004 * October 8 – Philip Booth (poet), Philip Booth (died 2007 in poetry, 2007), American poetry, American poet and educator * October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006 in poetry, 2006), Scottish poetry, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener * November 15 – Heinz Piontek (died 2003 in poetry, 2003), German poetry, GermanHofmann, Michael, editor, ''Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology'', Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 * November 27 – Munier Choudhury (died 1971 in poetry, 1971), Bengali poetry, Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident * December 10 – Carolyn Kizer (died 2014 in poetry, 2014), American poetry, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985 in poetry, 1985 * December 12 – Laurence Lerner (died 2016 in poetry, 2016), South African poetry, South African-born poet and academicDeaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American poetry, American novelist and poet * February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen , pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886 in poetry, 1886), Japanese poetry, Japanese Meiji period, Meiji- and Taishō period, Taishō-period ''tanka'' poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen) * February 22 – Nina Salaman, 47 (born 1877 in poetry, 1877), English poetry, English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry; cancer * May 12 – Amy Lowell, 51 (born 1874 in poetry, 1874), American poetry, American poet of the imagist school; posthumously wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926 * June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, 54 (born 1870 in literature, 1870), French poetry, French poet * June 17 – A. C. Benson, 63, English poetry, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory" * June 27 – A. D. Godley, 69, Irish-born English poetry, English classical scholar and writer of light verse * September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, 81 (born 1844 in poetry, 1844) German poetry, German poet and librettist * October 27 – Darrell Figgis, 43 (born 1882 in poetry, 1882),See also
* Poetry * List of poetry awards * List of years in poetry * New Objectivity in German literature and artNotes
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