1926 in poetry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| List of years in poetry (table) |
|---|
| … 1916 . 1917 . 1918 . 1919 . 1920 . 1921 . 1922 … 1923 1924 1925 -1926- 1927 1928 1929 … 1930 . 1931 . 1932 . 1933 . 1934 . 1935 . 1936 … In literature: 1923 1924 1925 -1926- 1927 1928 1929 |
| Related time period or subjects |
| … 1923 . 1924 . 1925 - 1926 - 1927 . 1928 . 1929 … … 1890s . 1900s . 1910s -1920s- 1930s . 1940s . 1950s |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Contents |
[edit] Events
- The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
- Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes
[edit] Works published
[edit] India in English
- Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems[1]
- Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism[2]
- The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom[3]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Edmund Blunden, English Poems[4]
- W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song[4]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle[4]
- Penny Wheep[4]
- Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead[4]
- Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
- Vita Sackville-West, The Land[4]
- Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems[4]
- Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
- The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[3]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan[4]
[edit] United States
- Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy[5]
- Hart Crane, White Buildings[5]
- Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row[6]
- E. E. Cummings, is 5[5]
- John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam[5]
- Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues,[7]
- Vachel Lindsay:
- Amy Lowell, East Wind[5]
- Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
- Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem[5]
- John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems[5]
- Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope[5]
- Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems[5]
- Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon[5]
- Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems[5]
- Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others
[edit] Other in English
- W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology[8]
- William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published, Canada[9]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems, Canada[9]
- Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
[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:
- Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language[10]
- Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das called it a "veru useful and important ork for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)[10]
- Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor[10]
- S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil[10]
[edit] Other languages
- Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Og kilderne springer, Denmark
[edit] Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
- February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
- March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
- May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
- May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
- June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
- June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
- June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and author
- June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
- June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
- July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
- August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali
- September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
- November 23 – Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
- November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
- December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States
- December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
- Also:
- Russell Atkins, African American
- Marya Fiamengo
- Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
- Francis Edward Sparshott
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
- May 30 – Perceval Gibbon Welsh poet, author and journalist
- July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- August 1 – Israel Zangwill, English poet
- November 17 – George Sterling (born 1869, American
- December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, German poet, from leukemia
- Also:
- Charles Montagu Doughty, (born 1843), English poet, writer, and traveller
- Eva Selena Gore-Booth
- Francis Joseph Sherman
[edit] See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
[edit] Notes
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Fleming, 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, ISBN 9780345423276, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b c d Das, 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, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
|
|||||
|
|||||||||||
