1917 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in New Youth magazine titled ""A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasized eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points).
- Wilfred Owen, a soldier in World War I, writes Dulce et Decorum Est (published posthumously in 1921). The work's horrifying imagery later made it one of the most popular condemnations of war ever written.
- Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart Military Hospital in Edinburgh, where he meets Wilfred Owen.
- July — last issue of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, founded by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915 and publishing poetry and other writing, as well as visual art; contributors included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, and Lola Ridge
- July — with the United States not yet fighting in World War I, Americans John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings and Robert Hillyer volunteer for the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.
- T. S. Eliot takes over as editor of The Egoist, a London literary monthly, when Richard Aldington leaves for the British Army
- The Little Review moves from Chicago to New York City with the help of Ezra Pound
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Australia
- Arthur Henry Adams, Australian Nursery Rimes, Australia
- C. J. Dennis:
- The Glugs of Gosh
- Doreen
- Henry Lawson, "Scots of the Riverina", Australia
[edit] United Kingdom
- Rupert Brooke, Selected Poems[1]
- Richard Church, The Flood of Life[1]
- Walter de la Mare, The Sunken Garden, and Other Poems[1]
- John Drinkwater, Tides[1]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems American poet published in the United Kingdom
- T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations[1]
- Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers[1]
- Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme[1]
- Thomas Hardy:
- John Masefield, Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems[1]
- Alice Meynell, A FAther of Women, and Other Poems[1]
- George William Russell ("AE"), Salutation[1]
- Vita Sackville-West, Poems of East and West[1]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems[1]
- Sir William Watson, The Man Who Saw, and Other Poems Arising Out of the War[1]
- Charles Williams, Poems of Conformity[1]
- William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Colle, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Some Imagist Poets third and final anthology; this effectively marks the end of the Imagist movement
[edit] United States
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems American poet published in the United Kingdom
- William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere
[edit] Other in English
- Sarojini Naidu, The Broken Wing, work of Indian poetry in English[2]
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] 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:
- Balawantrai Thakore, Bhanakar (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[3]
- Ci. Subrahamaniya Bharati, Kannan Pattu, Tamil language[2]
- C. R. Sahasrabuddha, Kakaduta, a parody (a book with the same name by a different author was published in 1940), Sanskrit language[2]
- Daulat Ram, Raja Gopi Cand, long narrative poem in the traditional genre of "Kissa", about the legend of Raja Gopi Chand, Punjabi language[2]
- Duvvuri Rami Reddi, Nalajaramma agnipravesamu, Telugu language[2]
- Hiteshwar Bar Barua, Desdimona Kavya, narrative poem inspired by Shakespeare's ' 'Othello' ', Assamese language[2]
- Hiteshwar Barua, Angila, Assamese language[2]
- Vallathol, Sahityamanjari, Part I, Malayam language[2]
[edit] Other
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Faunedans, Denmark
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Robert Lowell, American
- April 19 – Johannes Bobrowski (died 1965), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
- October 12 – James McAuley (dies 1976), Australian poet
- December 30 – Yun Dong-ju, (died 1945), Korean poet (surname: Yoon; also spelled "Yoon Dong-joo" and "Yun Tong-ju")
- Also:
- Samuel W. Allen, African American
- Margaret T. G. Burroughs African American
- Judson Crews, American
- Takis Sinopoulos, Greek
- Rainer Brambach (died 1983), German[4]
- Abdus Sattar Ranjoor Kashmiri (died 1990), Indian, Kashmiri-language[2]
- Gopal Prasad Rimal (died 1973), Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwright[2]
- Kamakshi Prasad Chattopadhyay (died 1976), Indian, Bengali-language poet and fiction writer[2]
- P. N. Pushp, Indian, Kashmiri-language[2]
- Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez (died 2009), journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller (surname: Rodriguez Velez)[5]
- Sampath (poet), pen name of Raghavacharya Sankhavaram, Indian, Telugu poet[2]
- Themis (poet), Indian poet in the Aurobindoean School[2]
[edit] Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 9 – Edward Thomas, poet and prose writer
- May 25 – Maksim Bahdanovič, 25, Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic, of tuberculosis.
- July 31 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet
- Also:
- Madhavanuj, pen name of Kashinath Hari Modak (born 1871), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator; a physician[2]
- Ismail Merathi (born 1844), Indian [2]
[edit] Killed in World War I
- July 31 – Francis Ledwidge, 25 (born 1887), Irish war poet sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds"; killed in action near Ypres, Belgium
- September 28 – T. E. Hulme, 30 (born 1883), influential English poetry critic
- date not known – R. E. Vernède, war poet
[edit] Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, a Danish poet and novelist, shares the award with fellow Dane Henrik Pontoppidan
[edit] See also
- List of years in poetry
- Dada
- Imagism
- Modernist poetry in English
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
- Expressionism movement in German poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
- Poetry
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ 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, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ "Panamanian writer Rodriguez Velez dies", article, January 11, 2009, United Press International website; also "Panama Writer Mario Augusto Rodriguez Dies", January 11, Latin American Herald Tribune, both retrieved same day
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