1912 In Poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

* January – ''The Poetry Review'', edited by Harold Monro, supersedes the ''Poetical Gazette'' as the journal of the Poetry Society, just renamed from the Poetry Recital Society.
* April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'': The ocean liner strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. This leads to a flood of ''Titanic'' poems, including Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain".
* September 2 – American poet Robert Frost arrives in England.
* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore and others. Yeats writes the preface to the English translation of Tagore's '' Gitanjali''
* Harriet Munroe founds '' Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'' in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); this year she describes its policy this way:

Imagist poets

* Three poets meet and work out the principles of Imagist poetry. The most prominent of them, Ezra Pound, writes about the formulation in 1954:

* At a meeting with Doolittle and Aldington in the British Museum tea room, Pound appends the signature ''H.D. Imagiste'' to Doolittle's poetry, creating a label that is to stick to the poet for most of her writing life
* October – Pound submits to '' Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'' three poems each by Doolittle and Aldington under the label ''Imagiste''. Aldington's poems are printed in the November issue, and H.D.'s appear in the January 1913 issue. The March 1913 issue of ''Poetry'' also contains Pound's ''A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste'' and F. S. Flint's essay ''Imagisme''. This publication history means that Imagism, although London-based, has its first readership in the United States.

Works published in English

Canada

* William Henry Drummond, ''The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond.'' New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. posthumous.Mary Jane Edwards,
Drummond, William Henry
" Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Web, Apr. 15, 2011.
* Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", ''Flint and Feather'', with an introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton, an English criticGarvin, John William, editor
''Canadian Poets''
(anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
* Seranus, ''In Northern Skies and Other Poems''Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison,"
Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets
,'' Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
* Robert W. Service, ''Rhymes of a Rolling Stone'', CanadaKeith, W. J.
"Poetry in English: 1867–1918"
article in ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', retrieved February 8, 2009

India, in English

* Sarojini Naidu, ''The Bird of Time'', London; Indian poet writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
* Bharati Sarabhai, ''The Well of the People'', Calcutta: Visva-Bharati
* Rabindranath Tagore, '' Gitanjali'', Indian poet writing in English, published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

* Robert Bridges, ''Poetical Works Excluding the Eight Dramas''
* Walter de la Mare, ''The Listeners, and Other Poems''
* John Drinkwater, ''Poems of Love and Earth''
* Wilfrid Gibson, ''Fires''
* T. E. Hulme, ''The Complete Poetical Works'', five poems
* Rudyard Kipling, ''Collected Verse''
* Edward Marsh (ed.), ''Georgian Poetry 1911-12'', the first Georgian Poetry anthology
* Claude McKay, ''Constab Ballads''; along with ''Songs of Jamaica'' (published in Jamaica), constitute the first published collections of English-language, Creole dialect poetry; Jamaican poet published in the United KingdomBrenier, Laurence A.
''An Introduction to West Indian Poetry''
p 62, Cambridge University Press, 1998, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
* Sarojini Naidu, ''The Bird of Time : Songs of Love, Death and the Spring'', Indian poet writing in English, published in BritainKnippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors
''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India''
(Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008
* Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
**'' Ripostes'', LondonAckroyd, Peter, ''Ezra Pound'', Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
**Translator, ''The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti'', London
* Isaac Rosenberg, ''Night and Day''
* Dora Sigerson, ''New Poems''
* James Stephens, ''The Hill of Vision''
* Rabindranath Tagore, '' Gitanjali'', Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain

United States

* Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), '' The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems''
* Robinson Jeffers, ''Flagons and Apples''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
* William Ellery Leonard, ''The Vaunt of Man''
* Vachel Lindsay, ''Rhymes to be Traded for Bread''
* Amy Lowell, ''A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass''
* Edna St. Vincent Millay, " Renascence"
* Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
**'' Ripostes'', London
**Translator, ''The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti'', London
* John Hall Wheelock, ''The Beloved Adventure''
* Charles Williams, ''The Silver Stair''
* Elinor Wylie, ''Incidental Numbers''

Other in English

* Adam Lindsay Gordon, ''The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon'', Australia
* Claude McKay of Jamaica, publishes the first collections of English-language, Creole dialect poetry:
** ''Songs of Jamaica'', Kingston, Jamaica
** ''Constab Ballads'', London, England

Works published in other languages

France

* Paul Claudel, ''L'Annonce faite à Marie''Hartley, Anthony, editor, ''The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century'', Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
* Jean Cocteau, ''La Danse de Sophocle'' Brée, Germaine, ''Twentieth-Century French Literature'', translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
* Léon-Paul Fargue, ''Poemes, suivi de Pour la musique''Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982
* Francis Jammes, ''Les Géorgiques chrétiennes'' ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from (1911 to this year)Web page title
"POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)"
at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009
* Pierre Jean Jouve, ''Présences''
* Max Jacob, ''Les Oeuvres Burlesques et Mystiques de Frère Matorel''
* René Maran, ''La Vie Intérieure'', Guyanese writer
* Charles Péguy, ''Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu''
* Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, ''Eloges''
* Victor Segalen, ''Stèles'', an edition of 81 copies (see also ''Stèles, Peintures, Équipée'' 1955, and ''Stelae'' 1969, a translation into English by Nathaniel Tarn)

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:

Telugu language

* Gurajada Appa Rao (surname: Gurajada), narrative poems written in a four-line, stanzaic form, new for Telugu poetry:
** ''Kanyaka''Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors
''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India''
Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree' ', pp 306–328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 2008
** ''Purnima''

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

* Akshay Kumar Baral, ''Esa'', Indian, Bengali-language
* Maithilisharan Gupta, "Bharat Bharati" ("The Voice of India"), Hindi poem glorifying the nation's past, deploring its contemporary social and political condition and calling for good relations between Hindus and Muslims at a time when animosity between the two groups was risingNatarajan, Nalini, and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson
''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India''
Westport, Connecticut, United States: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,
, , retrieved via Google Books on June 17, 2009
* Sumatiben Mehta, ''Hridayjharnan'', a poem conveying her anguish during an extended illness (posthumous), written in the Gujarati languageMohan, Sarala Jag
Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"
(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

Other

* Anna Akhmatova, ''Vecher'' ("Evening"), her first collection, Russia
* Gottfried Benn, '' Morgue und andere Gedichte'' ("Morgue and other Poems") (Berlin), Germany
* David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov, ''A Slap in the Face of Public Taste'' (Пощёчина общественному вкусу), Russian Futurist anthology
* Takuboku Ishikawa, ''Kanashiki gangu'' ("Sad Toys") published posthumously, Japan
* Antonio Machado, ''Campos de Castilla'' ("Fields of Castile"), first edition (revised edition 1917); SpainDebicki, Andrew P.
''Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond''
p 11, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
* Patrick Pearse, ''Mise Éire'' ("I am Ireland"), Ireland

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 1 – Nikiforos Vrettakos (died 1991 in poetry, 1991), Modern Greek poetry, Greek
* February 11 – Roy Fuller (died 1991 in poetry, 1991), English poetry, English poet and novelist
* February 27 – Lawrence Durrell (died 1990 in poetry, 1990), Indian-born English poetry, English novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer
* May 3 – May Sarton (died 1995 in poetry, 1995), American poet, novelist and memoirist
* May 8 – George Woodcock (died 1995 in poetry, 1995), Canadian poetry, Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent Anarchism, anarchist
* May 25 – Meeraji (died 1949 in poetry, 1949), Indian, Urdu poetry, Urdu-language
* June 12 – Roland Robinson (poet), Roland Robinson (died 1992 in poetry, 1992), Australian poetry, Australian
* June 13 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (died 1943 in poetry, 1943), Canadian poetry, Canadian poet, considered "Quebec's first truly modern poet"
* June 16 – Enoch Powell (died 1998 in poetry, 1998), English poetry, English Member of Parliament (UK), MP from 1950 to 1987, classical scholar and poet
* June 29 – John Gawsworth, born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (died 1970 in poetry, 1970), English poetry, English poet and anthologist
* July 14 – Northrop Frye (died 1991 in poetry, 1991), Canadian poetry, Canadian critic
* July 26 – Niall Sheridan (died 1998 in poetry, 1998), Irish poet, fiction writer and broadcaster
* August 29 – Kenneth Allott (died 1973 in poetry, 1973) Welsh-born English poetry, Anglo- Irish poet and academic
* September 10 – William Everson (poet), William Everson, also known as "Brother Antoninus" (died 1994 in poetry, 1994), American poet, author, literary critic and small-press printer
* September 12 – J. F. Hendry (died 1986 in poetry, 1986), Scottish poetry, Scottish poet later living in Canada
* September 13 – F. T. Prince (died 2003 in poetry, 2003) South African–English poetry, British poet and academic
* September 16 – John Jefferson Bray (died 1995 in poetry, 1995), Australian poetry, Australian
* September 24 – Ian Serraillier (died 1994 in poetry, 1994), English poetry, English children's writer
* November 5 – Paul Dehn (died 1976 in poetry, 1976), English poetry, English screenwriter and poet
* November 12 – Donagh MacDonagh (died 1968 in poetry, 1968), Irish poet, playwright and judge
* December 9 – Denis Glover (died 1980 in poetry, 1980), New Zealand poetry, New Zealand poet and publisher
* December 11 – Micky Burn (died 2010 in poetry, 2010), English poetry, English writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poet
* Also:
**Ali Jafri, Indian, Urdu poetry, Urdu-language poet
** P. R. Kaikini, Indian, writing Indian poetry in English
** Nityananda Mahapatra, Indian, Oriya poetry, Oriya-language novelist, short-story writer, poet and politician
** Prahlad Parekh (died 1962 in poetry, 1962), Indian, Gujarati-language
** Bharati Sarabhai, Indian Indian poetry in English, English- and Gujarati-language playwright, including verse drama
** Konduru Viraraghavacaryulu, Indian, Telugu literature, Telugu-language poet, novelist and scholar

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 16 – Georg Heym (born 1887 in poetry, 1887), German poetry, German poet
* April 13 – Takuboku Ishikawa 石川 啄木 (born 1886 in poetry, 1886), Japanese poetry, Japanese poet (surname: Ishikawa)
* November 28 – Lorentzos Mavilis (born 1860 in poetry, 1860), Modern Greek poetry, Greek
* December 18 – Will Carleton (born 1845 in poetry, 1845), American poet

See also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry
* Acmeist poetry movement in Russian poetry
* Dymock poets
* Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
* Expressionism movement in German poetry
* Russian Futurism
* Silver Age of Russian Poetry
* Young Poland (Polish: ''Młoda Polska'') modernist period in Polish arts and literature

Notes

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