1926 in poetry
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Events
- The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
- Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes
Works published
Canada
- William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.[1]
- Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.[2]
- E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan.[3]
- Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
- Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.[1]
- Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (Québec: Dussault & Proulx).[4]
India in English
- Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),[5]
- The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism[7]
United Kingdom
- Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
- Edmund Blunden, English Poems[8]
- W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song[8]
- Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle[8]
- Penny Wheep[8]
- Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead[8]
- Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
- Vita Sackville-West, The Land[8]
- Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems[8]
- Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
- The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan[8]
United States
- Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy[9]
- Hart Crane, White Buildings[9]
- Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row[10]
- E. E. Cummings, is 5[9]
- John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam[9]
- Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues[11]
- Vachel Lindsay:
- Amy Lowell, East Wind[9]
- Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
- Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem[9]
- John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems[9]
- Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope[9]
- Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems[9]
- Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon[9]
- Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems[9]
- Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others
Other in English
- W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology[12]
- Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France
- Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism[13]
- Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
- Dessous d'une vie[13]
- Capitale de la douleur[14] ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influenced Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
- Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France[15]
- Pierre Jean Jouve:
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:
- Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language[16]
- Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das called it a "veru useful and important ork for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)[16]
- Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor[16]
- S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil[16]
Other in Spanish
- Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); Spain[19]
- Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
- Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
- Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico
Other languages
- Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
- Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
- February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet[20]
- February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
- February 25 – Russell Atkins, African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
- March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
- March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
- April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
- May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
- May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
- May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
- June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
- June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
- June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
- June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
- June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
- July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
- July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
- July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
- August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
- September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
- November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
- November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist
- November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
- November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
- December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
- December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
- January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
- April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
- May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
- June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
- July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
- October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
- November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
- December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia
See also
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
Notes
- Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- "Frederick George Scott Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
- Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- 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.
- 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
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
- Fleming, 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, ISBN 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
- 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
- Fitts, 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 595
- Fitts, 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 635
- Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- "[Japanese-American Internee Data File], 1942–1946". National Archives and Records Administration. 1988–89. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
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