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Events
- Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
- American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.
Works published
- T. S. Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes
- Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
- Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano (Spanish for "Gypsy Ballads")
- Thomas Hardy, Winter Words
- H. S. Milford, editor, Romantic Verse, anthology1
- Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London2
- Carl Sandburg, Good Morning America
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey
- Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
- W.B. Yeats, The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan"
- Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project.
- Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram
Births
- January 1 — Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scot writing poetry, short stories and novels in both English and Scottish Gaelic
- January 10 — Philip Levine, American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- February 14 — Bruce Beaver (died 2004). Australian poet
- March 4 — Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
- April 4 — Maya Angelou, African-American poet
- May 4 — Thomas Kinsella Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
- June 27 — Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher
- September 20 — Donald Hall, American poet and the U.S. Poet Laureate
- September 22 — Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
- November 9 — Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
- date not known:
Deaths
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
- February 5 — David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
- March 18 - Paul van Ostaijen
- March 24 - Charlotte Mew, poet (suicide)
- May 16 - Edmund Gosse, poet and critic
- July 20 — Kostas Karyotakis, Greek
- August 16 - Antonín Sova
- December 16 - Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist
See also
References
- ^ Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p353
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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