—From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New Hampshire Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events In Paris, Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career. E. C. McFarlane and others found the Jamaican Poetry League."Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009. Xu Zhimo founds the Crescent Moon Society in China. December – Persian poet Nima Yooshij publishes the poem Afsaneh, the manifesto of the She'r-e Nimaa'i school of modernist poetry.
Works published in English
Canada Arthur Bourinot, Lyrics from the hills Katherine Hale, ed., Isabella Valancy Crawford Thom MacInnes, Complete PoemsGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), Angels' Shoes E. J. Pratt, Newfoundland Verse, CanadaRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 Duncan Campbell Scott, The Witching of Elspie
Indian in English Ananda Acharya, Usarika ("Dawn-Rhythms")Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 N. M. Chatterjee, India and Other Sonnets, CalcuttaNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Margaret MacNicol, Poems by Indian Women, Calcutta: Association Press, 98 pages; anthologyJoshi, 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. Oriental Blossoms, London: Heath Cranton; anthology Puran Singh, Unsung Beads, on mystical experiences and with social and political themes K. S. Venkataramani, On the Sand-Dune, Madras: Ganesh and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 S. K. De, A history of Sanskrit Poetics, one of the earliest accounts of Sanskrit literary theories in English; scholarshipDas, 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, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
United Kingdom Harold Acton, Aquarium Edmund Blunden, To Nature W. H. Davies, Collected Poems, second series; first series, 1916, see also Collected Poems, 1928; Poems, 1934 Walter De La Mare, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of all Ages (anthology) John Drinkwater, Collected Poems, in three volumes, published 1923–1937 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) first published in the U.K. in book form complete with notes in a limited edition in September 1923 by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames, run by Eliot's Bloomsbury Group friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the type handset by Virginia (completed in July)) Robert Graves, Whipperginny D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United Kingdom in November; first published in the United States in October; English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925) Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, the name used for this book), Annals of the Five Senses Katherine Mansfield, Poems (posthumous), New Zealand author living in Europe John Masefield: Collected Poems King Cole, and Other Poems Alice Meynell, Last Poems (posthumous) Susan Miles, Little Mirrors (probable date) Herbert Read, Mutations of the Phoenix Edith Sitwell, Bucolic Comedies Oriental Blossoms, London: Heath Cranton; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom Osbert Sitwell, Out of the Flame Jean Toomer, Cane William Butler Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan", Ireland and United Kingdom
United States Conrad Aiken, The Pilgrimage of FestusLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Stephen Vincent Benét: King David The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790–1880 Louise Bogan, Body of This Death Witter Bynner, Indian Earth E. E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys Djuna Barnes, A Book, collection of prose and poetry Robert Frost, New Hampshire including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Fire and Ice", "Nothing Gold Can Say" Elsa Gidlow, On A Grey Thread, the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United States in October, published in the United Kingdom in November, English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925) Vachel Lindsay, Going-to-the-Sun Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry Edward Arlington Robinson, Roman Bartholow George Sterling, Selected Poems Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", "Sunday Morning", "Sea Surface Full of Clouds" and "In the Clear Season of Grapes".Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009 Stevens' first book, it is published by Knopf when he is in middle age (44 years old). Its first edition sells only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting that Mark Van Doren has it right when he writes in The Nation this year that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular"Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 4 yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies will be becoming a "multinational conglomerate"Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 11 (Revised edition, 1931) Jean Toomer, Cane, a blend of poetry, fiction and dramatic sketchesFleming, 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, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Amos Wilder, Battle Retrospect, Yale University Press (this year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets) William Carlos Williams: Go Go Spring and All
Other in English Mina Loy, Lunar Baedecker, English-born poet living and published in Paris Shaw Neilson, Ballad and Lyrical Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France Antonin Artaud, Tric-trac du ciel, Paris: Galerie SimonWeb page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. 2009-09-04. Jean Cocteau, Plain-ChantBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Francis Jammes: La Brebis égaréeWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to 1925 Alphonse Métérié, Le Cahier noir Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, De nos oiseauxAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
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:
Telugu language Bahar-e-Gulshan-e-Kashmir, anthology of traditional Kashmiri poetry, mostly the vatsans and ghazals of Mahmood Gami Pendyalu Venkatasubrahmanya Shastri, critical account of the Mahabharata and its interpretation (second edition published in 1933), Telugu-language criticism Penumarti Venkataratnam, Sandhya ragamu, romantic poems; a well-known work in the field of Telugu poetry
Other in India Seemab Akbarabadi, Naistaan, Urdu Bharati, Kuyil Pattu-Kannan Pattu-Parata Arupattaru, consists of three works, including Kuyil Pattu, written in 1912, a long narrative poem of 741 lines, written in the traditional Kalivenpa meter, called "a landmark in the field of modern Tamil poetry" by Sisir Kumar Das; Parati Arupattaru, 66-verse autobiographical work Chandra Kanta Agarwala, Binbaragi, 12 important poems about the past glory of Assam, ancient Assamese ballads strongly influenced the poems; Assamese language G. Sankara Kurup, Sahitya Kantukam, lyrical Malayalam poems modelled on those of Vallathol Narayana Menon, with original themes, context and diction; the author later published three other volumes with the same title Godavarish Mishra, Kisalaya, Oriya-language Imam Baksh Nasikh, Divan-i Nasikh, two volumes, Urdu Jhaverchand Meghani, Veninan Phool (Gujarati-language)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, , retrieved December 10, 2008 Kumaran Asan, Karuna, based on the Buddhist legend of Vasavadatta and Upagupta; the author's last poem and an extremely popular one; celebrates compassion (karuna), Malayalam language Mahananda Sapkota, Manalahari, Nepali language Manishankar Bhatt "Kant", Purvalap, a work with a conspicuous romantic mood and classical diction, considered a landmark of Gujarati poetry, according to Sisir Kumar Das; published on the day the poet died Nagardas Amarjee Pandya, Rukmini-Harana, epic Sanskrit mahakavya on a mythological theme Puran Singh, Khulle Maidan, blank verse, Punjabi language Sarasvatibhai Bhide, editor, Abhinavakavyamala, Volume 5, Marathi-language anthology of modern women poets Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol ("literally, "weird and random"), nonsense verse, Sisir Kumar Das has called it "one of the landmarks in the history of Bengali literature for children" Yatindranath Sengupta, Maricika, known for their innovative rhythm and imagery in Bengali poetry, very different from the followers of Rabindranath Tagore
Spain Juan Ramón Jiménez: Belleza ("Beauty")Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 15, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Poesía ("Poetry") Pedro Salinas, Presagios ("Presages")
Other languages Otto Gelsted, Reklameskibet ("The Show Boat"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Enrique González Rojo, Sr., El puerto y otros poemas, Mexico Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Payam-i-Mashriq (Message from the East), philosophical poetry in Persian Vladislav Khodasevich, Heavy Lyre, Russian poet published in Germany Hendrik Marsman, Verzen, Netherlands Vladimir Mayakovsky, About That, Soviet Russia Pablo Neruda, Crepusculario ("Book of Twilights"), Chile