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Events

• March – Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better." ^[1]
• December 15 – The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
• Ezra Pound presents H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), fellow American poet, with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.

Works published in English

Canada

• Wilfred Campbell, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell ^[2]
• James Capon, Roberts and the Influences of His Time, critical work on Charles G. D. Roberts ^[2]
• Isabella Valancy Crawford, The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, John W. Garvin ed., posthumously published ^[2]
• William Henry Drummond, The Voyageur and other Poems ^[2]
• Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton:
  • Acadian Ballads, and De Soto's Last Dream ^[2]
  • Poems of the Christian Year ^[2]
• Duncan Campbell Scott, New World Lyrics and Ballads, including "The Forsaken", Canada ^[3]

United Kingdom

• Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihew
• Robert Bridges, Demeter ^[4]
• Joseph Campbell, The Garden of Bees ^[4]
• W. H. Davies, The Soul's Destroyer, and Other Poems
• Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson ^[4]
• R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom ^[5]
• Violet Jacob, Verses, Scottish poet
• Frederic Manning, The Vigil of Brunhild, verse drama based on Norse mythology
• Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne ^[4]
• Arthur Symons, A Book of Twenty Songs ^[4]
• Katharine Tynan, Innocencies ^[4]
• Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" (posthumous)

United States

• Madison Cawein, Vale of Tempe ^[6]
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow ^[6]
• Trumbull Stickney, Poems ^[6]
• John Hall Wheelock, with Van Wyck Brooks, Verses by Two Undergraduates ^[6]

Other in English

• R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom ^[5]
• Francis Jammes, Tristesses, France ^[7]
• Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain ^[8] (text available online)
• Violet Teague - Night Fall in the Ti-Tree , Australian Artist's book containing poetry

Works published in other languages

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, Vilasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati) ^[9]
• Brij Raj, Vagdevi, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brij Bhasha ^[10]
• Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, ' 'Vasantotsav' ', Gujarati language, India ^[9]

Other languages and such

• Paul Claudel, France
  • Poèmes de la Sexagésime
  • "Vers d'Exil", poems published in L'Ermitage magazine ^[11]
• Gjergj Fishta, Lahuta e Malcís ("The Highland Lute"), begins publication, Albania
• Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch), Germany
• Octavian Goga - Poezii

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 3 – Padraic Fallon (died 1974), Irish
• January 6 – Idris Davies (died 1956), Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in English
• January 10 – R. A. K. Mason (died 1971), New Zealander
• February 15 (February 2 O.S.) – Musa Cälil (executed 1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
• March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson (died 1985), American
• March 9:
  • Peter Quennell (died 1993), English
  • Rex Warner (died 1986), Irish
• March 13 – Brian Howard (suicide 1958), English poet, writer and "bright young thing"
• March 18 – Alfred Bailey (died 1997), Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian and academic administrator
• March 21 – Phyllis McGinley (died 1978), American
• April 10 – Norma Davis (died 1945), Australian ^[12]
• April 17 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat (died 1936), Peruvian poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927)
• April 22 – Robert Choquette (died 1991) Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
• April 24 – Robert Penn Warren (died 1989), American poet, critic, novelist and academic
• May 15 – Annadashankar Roy (died 2002), Bengali poet
• June 8 – Brian Coffey (died 1995), Irish poet and publisher
• June 25 – Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖 (died 1997), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's book author
• July 29 – Stanley Kunitz (died 2006), American poet
• August 28 – Len Fox (died 2004), Australian writer, social activist and painter
• November 4 – Xavier Abril (died 1990), Peruvian poet and critic
• November 10 – Kurt Eggers (killed in action 1943), German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
• November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Frye (died 2004), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
• December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth (died 1982), American poet
• December 31 – Frank Marshall Davis (died 1987), American poet
• Also:
  • Winifred Maitland Shaw, Australian
  • Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (died 1941), Palestinian, Arab-language

Deaths

• July 1 – John Hay, 66 (born 1838), American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
• September 18 – George MacDonald, 80 (born 1824), Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
• October 13 – Violet Fane (Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb), 62 (born 1843), English
• October 28 – Alphonse Allais, 51 (died 1905), French humorist
• December 29 – Victor Daley, 47 (born 1858), Irish-born Australian

See also

• Poetry portal

• 20th century in poetry
• 20th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• French literature of the 20th century
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry

Notes

1. "Vachel Lindsay" essay, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, editors, Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1973, page 257, which cites Ruggles, Eleanor, The West-Going Heart, A Life of Vachel Lindsay (New York, 1959), page 97.
2. Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
3. Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
4. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
5. Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
6. Ludwig, 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)
7. Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, ISBN   978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
8. Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN   978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
9. 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   978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
10. 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   978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
11. "Premiers vers". Société Paul Claudel. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
12. "Davis, Norma Lochlenah (1905–1945)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2007-05-15.