1919 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
- Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family.
- The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct
- October — William Butler Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920.[1]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Australia
- Edwin James Brady, The House of the Winds
- John Le Gay Brereton, The Burning Marl, dedicated to "All who have fought nobly"
- C. J. Dennis, Jim of the Hills
- Shaw Neilson, Heart of Spring, Sydney, Bookfellow
[edit] United Kingdom
- Richard Aldington:
- John Drinkwater, Loyalties[2]
- T. S. Eliot, Ara Vos Prec, including "Gerontion" and the poems later published in Poems – 1920; his "Tradition and the Individual Talent" appears in The Egoist
- Ivor Gurney, War's Embers[2]
- Rudyard Kipling, The Years Between[2]
- Ezra Pound, Quia Pauper Amavi[3]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems of Sigfried Sassoon[2]
- Dora Sigerson, Sixteen Dead Men, and Other Ballads of Easter Week (posthumous)[2]
- Osbert Sitwell, Argonaut and Juggernaut[2]
- J. C. Squire, The Birds and Other Poems[2]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- The Wild Swans at Coole, includes poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "Tn Irish Airman Foresees his Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"[2]
- Two Plays for Dancers, including "The Second Coming" and "A Prayer For My Daughter"; (see also, Four Plays for Dancers, published in 1921)[2]
[edit] United States
- John Jay Chapman, Songs and Poems[4]
- Babette Deutsch, Banners[4]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Notes on Thought and Vision written, published posthumously in 1982
- Amy Lowell, Pictures of a Floating World[4]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Starved Rock[4]
- John G. Neihardt, The Song of Three Friends[4]
- Ezra Pound, Quia Pauper Amavi[5]
- John Crowe Ransom, Poems About God[4]
- Charles Reznikoff, Rhythms II, including "The Idiot"
- John Hall Wheelock, Dust and Light[4]
[edit] Other
- Ananda Acharya, Snow Birds, Indian poetry in English[6]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- The Wild Swans at Coole, includes poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "Tn Irish Airman Foresees his Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"[2]
- Two Plays for Dancers, including "The Second Coming" and "A Prayer For My Daughter"; (see also, Four Plays for Dancers, published in 1921)[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:
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Bharatno Tankar (Parsi writing in Gujarati)[7]
- Basavaraju Appa Rao, Selayeti ganamu, Telugu-language[6]
- Duvvuri Rami Reddi, Krsivaludu, has been called the most prominent poem of the Telugu-language romantic movement; depicts peasants and rural life[6]
- Gopala Krishna Pattanayak, Gopalakrsna Padyabali, Oriya-language, vaishnav lyrics, posthumous edition[6]
- Jammuneshwar Khataniyar, Arun, her first collection of poems, Indian, Assamese-language[6]
- Kumaran Asan, Malayalam-language:
- Cintavistayaya Sita ("Sita's Story")[8],[6]
- Prarodanam, elegy on the death of A. R. Rajara Varma, a poet, critic and scholar; similar to Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais but with a distinctly Indian philosophical attitude[6]
- Nilkanth Sharma Dal, Ramayana, Kashmiri-language poem based for the most part on the Ramacarita-Manas of Tulsidas[6]
- Syama Sundara Das, editor, Parmala Raso, Hindi-language epic poem; written in a language mixing Brjibhasa, Kannauji and Bundeli, published by Kashi Nagari Pracharini Sabha[6]
[edit] Spanish language
- Juana de Ibarourou, Tongues of Diamond, Uruguay
- Juan Ramon Jiminez, Stone and Sky, Spain
- Alfonsina Storni, Without Remedy, Argentina
[edit] Other languages
- Khalil Gibran, The Procession, long ode, Arabic[9]
- Max Jacob, La Defense de Tartuffe, France[9]
- Kitahara Kakushu, Heretics, Japan[9]
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Horn og Hov, Denmark
- Kurt Pinthus, editor, Menscheitsdämerung ("“The Twilight of Mankind”)"), anthology of Expressionist poetry, published in Berlin, (German)[10][11]
- Edith Sodergran, Gaudy Observations, Sweden[9]
- Giuseppe Ungaretti, Gay Shiprecks, Italy[9]
[edit] Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Carl F. G. Spitteler, Swiss poet and novelist
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 7 – Robert Duncan (died 1988), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation, and a key player in the San Francisco Renaissance.
- January 9 – William Meredith, American poet
- February 12 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (died 2003), Bengali poet and Marxist[6] (surname: Mukhopadhyay)[9]
- March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born "Lawrence Ferling"), American beat poet, painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
- May 28 – May Swenson, (died 1989, American poet and playwright
- July 19 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek
- September 7 – Louise Bennett-Coverley, aka "Miss Lou" (died 2006), Jamaican folklorist, writer, and poet
- September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet, and researcher.
- November 4 – Patricia Beer (died 1999), English poet and critic
- Also:
- Joan Brossa, Spanish Catalan poet[9]
- Ruth Dallas, New Zealander
- Madeline DeFrees
- Gevorg Emin (Karlen karapetian), Armenian[9]
- M. Govindan (died 1988), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[12]
- Edwin Honig, American
- Emyr Owen Humphreys, Welsh novelist, playwright and poet[9]
- Lance Jeffers (died 1985), African American
- Kuroda Saburu, Japanese (surname: Kuroda)[9]
- Jiri Orten (Czechoslovakia)
- Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (died 1978), Argentine author and poet
- Amrita Pritan, Punjabi poet and novelist; a woman[6]
- Bani Ray, Bengali writer, novelist, poet and critic, a woman[6]
- Binod Chandra Nayak, Oriya-language poet[6]
- Buddhidhari Singha, Maithili-language poet and fiction writer
- G. D. Madgulkar (died 1978), Indian, Marathi-language poet, song writer and short-story writer[6]
- Girija Kumar Mathur (died 1994), Indian, Hindi-language poet[6]
- M. Govindan, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, short-story writer, playwright and essayist[6]
- Syed Abdul Malik, Indain, Assamese-language short-story writer and poet[6]
- Abdurrahman Pazhwak, Afghan poet, novelist and playwright[9]
- Yoshioka Minoru, Japanese (surname: Yoshioka) [9]
[edit] Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Endre Ady, Hungarian[9]
- Akshay Kumar Baral (died 1919), Indian, Bengali-language poet[6]
- Matilda Betham-Edwards (born 1836), English novelist, travel writer, poet, children's book author
- Benjamin Paul Blood
- Wilfred Campbell
- Sarah Morgan Piatt
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Akshay Kumar Baral (born 1860), Indian, Bengali-language poet[6]
- Brij Raj (born 1847, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet[6]
- Ganesh Janardan Agasha (born 1852), Indian, Marathi-language poet and literary critic[6]
- Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (born 1885), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist[6]
- Narayan Vama Tilak, Indian, Marathi-language Christian poet[9]
- Amado Nervo, Mexican[9]
- Ricardo Palma, Peruvian novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and writer of short fiction[9]
- William Michael Rossetti, English poet and essayist[9]
- Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic playwright and poet[9]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 132
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ Weisstein, Ulrich, "Expressionism in Literature", article in the online "Dictionary of the History of Ideas", accessed April 25, 2008
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
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