Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature, including Irish or France.
Events January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before.Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. February 11 – Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana".Editors' Note, The Nation Vol. 120, No. 3110, page 148 (11 February 1925)Mark Van Doren in Prize Poems, 1913-1929 page 19 (NY: Charles Boni, 1930): "The Nation prize ... was always a spectacle to be looked forward to, and the fame which came to certain poems like...Eli Siegel's "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" was an interesting index of the importance attributed by the lay public to poetry."Editors Oswald Garrison Villard, Lewis S. Gannett, Arthur Warner, Joseph Wood Krutch, Freda Kirchwey, and Mark Van Doren, The Nation Vol. 120, No. 3110, page 136 (11 February 1925).Alexander Laing in "The Nation and its Poets," page 212. The Nation, Vol. 201, No. 8 (20 September 1965) February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.Neal T. Jones, editor, A Book of Days for the Literary Year, New York and London: Thames and Hudson (1984), unpaginated, November 21 – First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada. December 28 – Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (b. 1895) writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (), in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad. T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishing house of Faber and Gwyer. An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940.
Works published
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 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: Works", Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011 E. J. Pratt, The Witches' Brew, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography", Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. Charles G. D. Roberts. The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson). Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Seven Poems. private. Seranus, Songs of Love and Labor (Toronto: Author).Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison", Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets , Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
India in English Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems (Poetry in English), Allahabad: The Indian Press 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 M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute (Poetry in English), Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works
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
United States Léonie Adams, Those Not ElectLudwig, 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 John Gould Fletcher, Parables H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Collected Poems of H.D. Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, ParisAckroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121 Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt Eli Siegel, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides
Other in English W. B. Yeats, A Vision, Ireland
Works published in other languages
France Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, , posthumously published (died 1918)Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03. Louis Aragon, Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Antonin Artaud: ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue FrançaiseWeb page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
André Breton, Paul Claudel, Max Jacob, Francis Jammes: , Paris: Éditions SpesWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868–1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. , published each year from 1922 to this year Raymond Radiguet, , published posthumously (author died this year)Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Pierre Reverdy, Jules Supervielle, Charles Vildrac,
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 Jayashankar Prasad, poem on love and beautyDas, 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, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Maithilisharan Gupta, based on the Ram legend Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, , verses on social and political problems
Telugu Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, , a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Sarma, C.R., "Modern Indian Literature, An Anthology: Surveys and Poems", chapter in George, K. M., Modern Indian Literature, p 409, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1994, , , retrieved June 2, 2009 (another source spells the title as ; "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature; a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri") Rayaprolu Subba Rao, , lyrics Visvanatha Satyanarayana, (also rendered ; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and , two works published in the same volume
Other Indian languages Altaf Husain Hali, , 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)Mohan, 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 Dimbeshwar Neog, , Assamese-language Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, , Marathi satirical and humorous poems Rabindranath Thakur, , Bengali, includes love poems Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, , Assamese Syed jalal, , work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali D. T. Tatacharya, , satirical Sanskrit poem Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, , Telugu epic in four cantos
Spanish language Rafael Alberti, ("Sailor on Land"); SpainDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Rafael Méndez Dorich, (Buenos Aires), Peruvian poet published in ArgentinaWeb page titled Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011; also: Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 619 José Gorostiza, ("Songs to Sing on Boats"), Mexico Salvador Novo, ("20 Poems"), Mexico Miguel de Unamuno, ("From Fuerteventura to Paris"), Spain
Other languages Sophus Claussen, , including ("Revolt of the Atoms"), 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"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine Lionel Léveillé, , French language, CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967 Eugenio Montale, ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998,
Awards and honors 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), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima) January 20 – Jamiluddin Aali (died 2015), Indian-born Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet February 20 – Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (died 2023), Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacher February 22 – Gerald Stern (died 2022), American February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic March 13 – Inge Müller (died 1966) East German March 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist and critic associated with the literary group The Movement. March 25 – Theodore Enslin (died 2011), American April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist June 6 – Maxine Kumin (died 2014), American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982 July 4 – Ciril Zlobec (died 2018), Slovene poet and politician August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator