— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year
— Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March issue also contains Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that this London-based movement has its first readership in the United States. January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912). American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet here.Jones, Neal T., ed., A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson (1984), unpaginated, . June – The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication, but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owns it; Rebecca West edits it at first, then Ezra Pound takes over as editor; it succeeds The Freewoman and will be succeeded by The Egoist. June 2 – English Poet Laureate Alfred Austin dies, succeeded by Robert Bridges on July 17. September – Founding of The Glebe, an American literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues. Ezra Pound, having heard about the magazine from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos,Bochner, Jay, 'The Glebe' in American Literary Magazines: The Twentieth Century, edited by Edward E. Chielens (Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1992) p. 137. sends Kreymborg the manuscript of Des Imagistes in the summerKenner, Hugh, The Pound Era, 1971. Faber and Faber, 1972. paperback. p. 158. and this famous first anthology of Imagism is published as the fifth issue of The Glebe (February 1914).Churchill, Suzanne, 'Making Space for Others: A History of a Modernist Little Magazine' in Journal of Modern Literature, Volume: 22. Issue: 1. 1998 p. 52. September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out.Collected in Responsibilities, and Other Poems (1916). November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. December 15 – Ezra Pound (in London) writes to James Joyce (in Trieste) requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist. Pound arrived in London by September to meet W. B. Yeats, whom he considers "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from this November until 1916, the two men winter in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet. Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name "Generation of '98" this year, referring to the novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War (1898) and alluding to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat in that war. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.
Wallace Stevens and his wife, Elsie, rent a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph Weinman, who makes a bust of Elsie, whose image is used on the artist's 1916–1945 Mercury dime design. Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring his work to literary prominence.
Works published in English
Canada Tom MacInnes, The Rhymes of a RounderGarvin, John William, ed., Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009 Marjorie Pickthall, The Drift of Pinions Varna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems Albert D. Watson, Love and the Universe, the Immortals and Other Poems
United Kingdom Laurence Binyon, Auguries Joseph Campbell, Irishry W. H. Davies, Foliage Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes John Drinkwater, Cromwell, and Other Poems Radclyffe Hall, Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems D. H. Lawrence, Love Poems and Others Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems, English poet living at this time in the United States Winifred Mary Letts, Songs from Leinster, English-born poet resident in Ireland John Masefield, Dauber Alfred Noyes, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern Cecil Roberts, Phyllistrata George William Russell ("Æ"), Collected Poems (expanded editions published in 1919, 1926 and 1935) Siegfried Sassoon, The Daffodil Murderer Dora Sigerson, Madge Linsey, and Other Poems J. C. Squire, The Three Hills, and Other Poems Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in EnglishDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911–1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States Witter Bynner, TigerLudwig, 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) Robert Frost, A Boy's Will Paul Laurence Dunbar, Complete Poems, published posthumously John Gould Fletcher: Fire and Wine Fool's Gold The Book of Nature The Dominant City Visions of the Evening Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" first appears in the August issue of Poetry magazine, it was later included in Trees and Other Poems 1914 Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, English poet living at this time in the United States Vachel Lindsay, General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems John Hall Wheelock, Love and Liberation William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom.
Other in English Arthur Henry Adams, Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams, Australia Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in English Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems Irish poet published in the United Kingdom W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom E. W. Cole, editor, Backblock Ballads and other Verses, front cover illustration by David Low; including a "Glossary: for the use of the thoroughly genteel", four sections of "The Sentimental Bloke" and "The Austral-aise", both by C. J. Dennis, Australian anthology
Works published in other languages
France
Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Alcools: Poemes 1898–1913, edited by Tristan Tzara; FranceWeb page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03. Blaise Cendrars, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France ("Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France"), a collaborative artists' book with near abstract pochoir print by Sonia Delaunay-Terk Francis Jammes, Feuilles dans le ventWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868–1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009 Pierre Jean Jouve, ParlerBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Valery Larbaud, Les Poésies de A. O. BarnaboothHartley, Anthony, ed., The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967. Charles Péguy, Ève
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:
Assamese language Chandra Kumar Agarwala, Pratima Hiteshwar Bar Barua, Tirotav Atma Balidan Kavya, narrative poem about the sacrifice of Jaymoti Kunwari for the sake of her husband, Gadadhar Singha, ruler of Assam from 1681 to 1696 Lakshminath Bezbarua, Kadam Kali, inspired by the ballads of Assam
Bengali language Adipudi Somanatharavu, translator, Gitanjali Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore translated into Telugu Chittaranjan Das, Sagar Sangit, Bengali language, short verses, intensely religious, later translated into English by Sri Aurobindo Pramatha Chaudhuri, Sanet Pancasat, India, Bengali language
Indian poetry in other languages K. C. Kesava Pillai, Kesaviyam, India, Malayalam language Kilabhai Ghansyam, Meghdut, translation into Gujarati from the original Sanskrit of Meghudutam by Kalidasa Mohammad Abdul Majid, Caman-i-benazir, Urdu language Raja Shyama Kumar Tagore, Jarmani Kavyam, Sanskrit language, a poem on Germany Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, Umakeralam, a mahakavya, a type of Indian epic poem, India, Malayalam languagePaniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., ed., Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009 Vakil Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Om-nama (incorporating Ghazalyat-e-Shastri), Kashmiri language
Other languages Delmira Agustini, Los cálices vacíos, pórtico de Rubén Darío ("Empty chalices"), UruguayWeb page titled "Delmira Agustini" at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011 Stefan George, Der Stern des Bundes ("The Star of the Order"), Germany"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010 Marie Heiberg, Luule ("Poems"), Estonia Emmy Hennings, Äthergedichte ("Ether poems"), Germany Vicente Huidobro, Canciones en la noche ("Songs in the Night"), Chile Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard, Visions gaspésiennes, French language CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651–654, Oxford University Press, 1967 Lionel Léveillé (writing under the pseudonym Englebert Gallèze), La claire fontaine, French language Canada Georg Trakl, Gedichte ("Poems"), Austrian published in Germany Nik Welter, Hochofen, Luxembourg published in Germany Vladimir Mayakovsky, I [Я], Russia
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Norman Rosten (died 1995), American poet, playwright and novelist January 19 – Rex Ingamells (died 1955), Australian February 10 – Charles Henri Ford (died 2002), American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist February 26 – George Barker (died 1991), English poet and author February 28 – Virginia Hamilton Adair, (died 2004), American poet March 4 – Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子 (died 2005), poet who survives the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust and became known for her poems about her city March 16 – Carmelo Arden Quin, (died 2010), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement "Madi""Carmelo Arden Quin, fundador do movimento artístico Madi, morreu aos 97 anos" (in Portuguese), Agence France Presse, as published by Yahoo Noticias, September 27, 2010, retrieved October 20, 2010. March 29 – R. S. Thomas (died 2000), Anglo-Welsh poet May 6 – Douglas Stewart (died 1985), Australian May 8 – Saima Harmaja, (died 1937), Finnish poet June 24 – Vincent Ferrini (died 2007), American writer and poet