Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in The Nation). April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program. June — English poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector. August 17 — English poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meet for the last time, in London, and spend what Sassoon later describes as "the whole of a hot cloudless afternoon together." November 4 — English war poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action, aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Oswestry a week later on Armistice Day. —Closing line of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen December — The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (d. 1889; including The Wreck of the Deutschland, 1875/6) are published by his friend Robert Bridges; few were published in Hopkins's lifetime, so this presents his innovative sprung rhythm and imagery to many readers for the first time.
Works published in English
Canada Marie Joussaye, Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs.Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994. Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Prairie Land and Other Poems. Albert E. S. Smythe intr., Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
India in English The Bengali Writers of English Verse: A Record and an Appreciation, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1918.; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 119 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19. Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, The Feast of Youth, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Baldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom Theodore Douglas Dunn, editor, The Bengali Book of English Verse, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co.; anthology; Indian poetry in English
United Kingdom Marian Allen, The Wind on the Downs Laurence Binyon, The New World: Poems Vera Brittain, Verses of a VAD Rupert Brooke (died on active service 1915), The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Émile Cammaerts, Messines and other Poems, Belgian-born poet writing in English Walter de la Mare, Motley, and Other Poems Baldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom Eleanor Farjeon, Sonnets and Poems Wilfrid Gibson, Whin Oliver St. John Gogarty, The Ship, and Other Poems Helen Hamilton, Napoo! A. P. Herbert, The Bomber Gipsy, and Other Poems Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins C. Morton Horne ("killed in action January 27, 1916"), Songs of the Shrapnel Shell, and Other Verse, Irish poet published simultaneously in the United States and United Kingdom Ford Madox Hueffer, On Heaven, and Poems written on active service Aldous Huxley, The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Rough Rhymes of a Padre D. H. Lawrence, New Poems Bertram Lloyd, ed., Poems Written During the Great War, 1914–1918 Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), War, The Liberator, and Other Pieces, Scottish poet Terence MacSwiney, Battle-cries, Irish poet Susan Miles, Dunch Margaret Postgate, Margaret Postgate's Poems Morley Roberts, War Lyrics Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems Fredegond Shove, Dreams and Journeys Dora Sigerson (died January 6), The Sad Years and Other Poems, Irish poet resident in London Edith Sitwell, Clowns' Houses Sacheverell Sitwell, The People's Palace Geoffrey Bache Smith (died of wounds 1916), A Spring Harvest (edited with preface by J. R. R. Tolkien) J. C. Squire, Poems, First Series Edward Thomas (killed in action April 9), Last Poems Katharine Tynan, Herb o' Grace, poems in war-time Arthur Waley, editor and translator, One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, anthology W. B. Yeats, Nine Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States Conrad Aiken, The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other PoemsLudwig, 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) Sherwood Anderson, Mid-American Chants Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure John Gould Fletcher, The Tree of Life Amy Lowell, Can Grande's Castle Edgar Lee Masters, Toward the Gulf Charles Reznikoff, Rhythms, his first book of poetry, a small volume, self-published Lola Ridge, The Ghetto and Other Poems Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers, Holt, Rinehart and WinstonRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, ed., The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, Wallace Stevens, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" is first published (it will later be included in his first poetry book, Harmonium.Buttel, Robert. The Making of Harmonium. 1967: Princeton University Press, p. 86. See also the LibriVox site for the complete public domain poems of Wallace Stevens.
Other in English C. J. Dennis, Australia: Digger Smith Backblock Ballads and Later Verses Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet writing in English published in Portugal Antinous 35 Sonnets W. B. Yeats, Nine Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Calligrammes, FranceWeb page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03. Jean Cocteau, Le Cap de Bonne Espérance, about the author's experience as a trapeze artist, written in vers brisésBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Henri de Régnier, 1914–1916: poésies Max Jacob, Le Cornet à DèsHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967 Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, AdramandoniAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Pierre Reverdy, Les Ardoises du toit Les Jockeys camouflés Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Vingt-cinq poèmes
Germany Kurd Adler, Wiederkehr: Gedichte Wilhelm Runge, Das Denken träumt
Spanish language Gerardo Diego, El romancero de la novia ("The Bride's Ballads"), SpainDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 35, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Federico García Lorca, Impressiones y paisajes ("Impressions and Landscapes"), Spain César Vallejo, Los heraldos negros ("The Black Heralds" Web page titled "César Vallejo" at the website of the Academy of American Poets, retrieved August 28, 2011) the author's first book is "a bitter interpretation of provincial life" which "represented a break with symbolism and had a profound effect upon contemporary poetry in PeruFitts, 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 645.
Other languages Deva Kanta Barua, Sagar dekhisa, Indian, Assamese languageDas, 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 Aleksandr Blok, The Twelve (Russian: Двенадцать, Dvenadtsat), a controversial long poem, one of the first poetic responses to Russia's 1917 October Revolution António Botto, Cantigas de Saudade, Portugal Miloš Crnjanski, Лирика Итаке ("Lyrics of Ithaca"), Serbian Cyrillic Aaro Hellaakoski, Nimettömiä lauluja, Finland Shmuel Yankev Imber, ed. Inter arma: a zamlung lirik (Inter Arma: a collection of lyrics), Yiddish, Austria Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (The Secrets of Selflessness) published in Persian, his second philosophical poetry book Augusta Peaux, Gedichten, Netherlands Pavlo Tychyna, Clarinets of the Sun , Ukraine
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 1 – Muriel Spark (died 2006), Scottish novelist and poet February 17 – William Bronk (died 1999), American poet April 15 – Louis Coxe (died 1993), American poet April 23 – James Kirkup (died 2009), English poet, translator and travel writer May 10 – Jane Mayhall (died 2009), American poet and novelistMayhall, Poet Who Gained Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 90 New York Times, March 19, 2009, retrieved March 22, 2009 May 21 – Gopal Prasad Rimal (died 1973), Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwright July 9 – John Heath-Stubbs (died 2006), English poet and translator August 23 – Vinda Karandikar, also known as C. V. Karandikar (died 2010), Indian, Marathi-language poet, critic and translator August 31 – Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉 (died 2008), Japanese Shōwa and Heisei period novelist and poet (surname: Shimizu) September 30 – Gevorg Emin Գևորգ Էմին (died 1998), ArmenianKurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003 November 14 – Valentin Iremonger (died 1991), Irish poet and diplomat November 16 – Nicholas Moore (died 1986), English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later drops out of the literary world November 18 – İlhan Berk (died 2008), Turkish poet November 19 – W. S. Graham (died 1986), Scottish poet often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic poets December 8 – Hans Børli (died 1989), Norwegian poet, novelist and writer December 30 – Al Purdy (died 2000), popular Canadian poet Date unknown Abd an-Nabi Abd al-Qadir Mursal, Sudanese poet and politician (died 1962) M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (died 1992), Indian, Kannada-language poet often said to be the pioneer of the "navya" (modernist) literary movement in Karnataka Indra Dev Bhojvani, also known as "Indur", Indian, Sindhi-language Ram Narain Singh Dardi, Indian, Punjabi-language poet who wrote in the Lahndi dialect Siddayya Puranika, Indian, Kannada-language poet Amritdhari Singha, Indian, Maithili-language writer, philosopher and poet
Deaths
Note two subsections, below. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Wilfred Campbell (born c.1860), Canadian poet January 6 – Dora Sigerson (born 1866), Irish poet June 10 – Arrigo Boito (born 1842), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer June 26 – Peter Rosegger (born 1843), Austrian poet September 18 – Saul Adadi (born 1850), Libyan Sephardi Jewish hakham, rosh yeshiva and writer of piyyutim September 21 — Emily Julian McManus (born 1865), Canadian poet, author, and educator