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Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloq ...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his ''New Hampshire'' volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Fros ...
", first published this year in his collection ''
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Basil Bunting Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of '' Briggflatts'' in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist traditio ...
meets
Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...
, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career. * E. C. McFarlane and others found the Jamaican Poetry League. *
Xu Zhimo Xu Zhimo (, , Mandarin: , 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese langu ...
founds the
Crescent Moon Society The Crescent Moon Society () was a Chinese literary society founded by the poet Xu Zhimo in 1923, which operated until 1931. It was named after ''The Crescent Moon'', a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. The society began as a loosely-organized dining as ...
in China. * December –
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poet
Nima Yooshij Nimā Yushij ( fa, نیما یوشیج) (11 November 1895 – 4 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiāri (), was an Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new p ...
publishes the poem ''
Afsaneh Afsaneh is a poem by Nima Yooshij, Nima Yoshij and the Manifesto of She'r-e Nimaa'i, published in December 1923. Afsaneh was very new in various aspects, including the way it was expressed and the texture, and led to the emergence of a new school ...
'', the manifesto of the She'r-e Nimaa'i school of
modernist poetry Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases ...
.


Works published in English


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Arthur Bourinot Arthur Stanley Bourinot, SM (November 3, 1893 – January 17, 1969) was a Canadian lawyer, scholar, and poet. "His carefully researched historical and biographical books and articles on Canadian poets, such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Archib ...
, ''Lyrics from the hills'' * Katherine Hale, ed.,''
Isabella Valancy Crawford Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer. "Crawford is increasingly being viewed as Canada's first maj ...
'' * Thom MacInnes, ''Complete Poems''Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books *
Marjorie Pickthall Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (14 September 1883, in Gunnersbury, London – 22 April 1922, in Vancouver), was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven.Barbara Godard,Pickthall, Marjorie Lowry ...
, ''Angels' Shoes'', posthumously published *
E. J. Pratt Edwin John Dove Pratt (February 4, 1882 – April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time."
, ''Newfoundland Verse'',
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Duncan Campbell Scott Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets. A care ...
, ''The Witching of Elspie''


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* Ananda Acharya, ''Usarika'' ("Dawn-Rhythms") ( Poetry in
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
), * N. M. Chatterjee, ''India and Other Sonnets'' ( Poetry in
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
),
Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...
Naik, M. K.
''Perspectives on Indian poetry in English''
p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
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, ''Poems by Indian Women'' ( Poetry in
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
),
Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...
: Association Press, 98 pages; anthologyJoshi, Irene, compiler
"Poetry Anthologies"
"Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
* ''Oriental Blossoms'', London: Heath Cranton; anthology;
Indian poetry in English Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first ...
, published in the
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*
Puran Singh Professor Puran Singh ( pa, ਪ੍ਰੋ. ਪੂਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ; 17 February 1881 – 31 March 1931) was a List of Punjabi language poets, Punjabi poet, scientist and mystic. Born in Abbottabad, now in Pakistan, in a Sikh family, he is acclaim ...
, ''Unsung Beads''( Poetry in
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
) on mystical experiences and with social and political themes * K. S. Venkataramani, ''On the Sand-Dune'' ( Poetry in
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
),
Madras Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
: Ganesh and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak
''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)''
p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010
* S. K. De, ''A history of Sanskrit Poetics'', one of the earliest accounts of Sanskrit literary theories in English; scholarshipDas, 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 The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...
, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008


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Harold Acton Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in Ch ...
, ''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 ...
, ''To Nature'' *
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,
1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * ...
, see also ''Collected Poems'',
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–
1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
* T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (
1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
) first published in the U.K. in book form complete with notes in a
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in September 1923 by the
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of
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, run by Eliot's
Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strac ...
friends
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and
Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...
, the type handset by Virginia (completed in July)) *
Robert Graves Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celtic ...
, ''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;
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
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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author living in Europe *
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) *
Susan Miles Susan Miles was the pen name of Ursula Wyllie Roberts (1887–1975). Biography She was born at Meerut in India, where her father was in the British military. He was Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Humphrey Wyllie and her mother was Emily Titcomb. ...
, ''Little Mirrors'' (probable date) *
Herbert Read Sir Herbert Edward Read, (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read ...
, ''Mutations of the Phoenix'' *
Edith Sitwell Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess ...
, ''Bucolic Comedies'' * ''Oriental Blossoms'', London: Heath Cranton; anthology;
Indian poetry in English Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first ...
, published in the United Kingdom *
Osbert Sitwell Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell. Like them, he devoted his life to art and li ...
, ''Out of the Flame'' *
Jean Toomer Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. His reputatio ...
, ''Cane'' *
William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
, ''The Cat and the Moon'', including "
Leda and the Swan Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the sa ...
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and United Kingdom


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Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short st ...
, ''The Pilgrimage of Festus''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press *
Stephen Vincent Benet Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...
: ** ''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 ...
, ''
Tulips and Chimneys ''Tulips and Chimneys'' is the first collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings, published in 1923. Description This collection is the first dedicated exclusively to Cummings's poetry;Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel ''Nightwood'' (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist litera ...
, ''A Book'', collection of prose and poetry *
Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloq ...
, ''
New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
'' including "
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his ''New Hampshire'' volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Fros ...
", " Fire and Ice", " Nothing Gold Can Say" *
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 ...
, ''On A Grey Thread'', the first volume of openly
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love poetry published in North America. *
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,
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
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
"Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)"
at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009
Stevens' first book, it was published by Knopf when he was in middle age (44 years old). Its first edition sold only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting that
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 ...
had it right when he wrote in ''
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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,
1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...
.) *
Jean Toomer Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. His reputatio ...
, ''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
*
Amos Wilder Amos Niven Wilder (September 18, 1895 – May 4, 1993) was an American poet, minister, and theology professor. Life Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied for two years at Oberlin College (1913–1915), but volunteered in the AF ...
, ''Battle Retrospect'', Yale University Press (this year's winner of the
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) *
William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
: ** ''Go Go'' ** ''Spring and All''


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Mina Loy Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to ...
, ''Lunar Baedecker'',
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-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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W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
, ''The Cat and the Moon'', including "
Leda and the Swan Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the sa ...
",
Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
poet published in the
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Works published in other languages


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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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, ''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

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**''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
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* 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):
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* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (
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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 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),
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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 –
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 ...
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-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),
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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


See also

* Poetry * List of poetry awards * List of years in poetry * New Objectivity in German literature and art


Notes

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