1929 in poetry

none 1929 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events April 29 – In the course of a domestic argument in London between poets and writers Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Geoffrey Phibbs and Graves's wife Nancy Nicholson, Riding and Graves jump from windows, she sustaining life-threatening injuries.Jean Moorcroft Wilson Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That London Bloomsbury 2018 352–364 9781472929143 Jean Moorcroft Wilson Later this year, Graves and Riding go to live together in Mallorca. Graves's autobiography Good-Bye to All That is published this year, also. The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication. The Dial ceases publication. Works published in English Canada Arthur Bourinot, Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children.August 2022 Frederick George Scott, New Poems."Frederick George Scott https://web.archive.org/web/20120501025903/http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm 2012-05-01 ," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011. India, in English Raul De Loyola Furtado (Poetry in English), The Desperrado, London: Chapman and Hall; Indian poet writing in English and published in the United KingdomNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry (Poetry in English), Allahabad: Indian Press, (second edition Bombay: Hind Kitabs, 1951), poetry anthologyJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth 2009-08-30 , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19. United Kingdom Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024521/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm 2006-03-06 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 Edmund Blunden, Near and FarCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty W. H. Davies, Ambition, and Other Poems Cecil Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem T. S. Eliot: Animula "Som de l'escalina" (later to become part III of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Autumn, 1929 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition) pp. 39-40, 218, 219, 223 (Harcourt Brace & World 1969) Aldous Huxley, Arabia Infelix, and Other Poems D. H. Lawrence, Pansies Louis MacNeice, Blind Fireworks Charlotte Mew, The Rambling Sailor William Plomer, The Family Tree I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement T. H. White, Loved Helen, and Other Poems W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: A Packet for Ezra Pound The Winding Stair United States Léonie Adams, High FalconLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A Book Louise Bogan, Dark Summer James Branch Cabell, Sonnets from Antan Malcolm Cowley, Blue Juniata Countee Cullen, The Black Christ Emily Dickinson, Further Poems, 150 recently discovered poems; Little, Brown, & Company Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", Red Roses for Bronze Kenneth Fearing, Angel Arms Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other Poems Vachel Lindsay, Every Soul is a Circus Edgar Lee Masters, The Fate of the Jury Lola Ridge, Firehead Edwin Arlington Robinson, Cavender's House E. B. White, The Lady is Cold Edmund Wilson, Poets, Farewell Elinor Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures Other in English Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain: Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New Zealand Voices from Summerland, the first major anthology of Jamaican poetry"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, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: A Packet for Ezra Pound The Winding Stair Works published in other languages France Louis Aragon, La Grande GaiteAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8 Jacques Audiberti, L'Empire et la Trappe, the author's first book of poems; winner of the Prix MallarmeBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Paul Éluard, L'Amour la poésie Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Poèmes Alphonse Métérié, ''Petit Maroc Henri Michaux: Ecuador, poetry and prose Mes Proprietés ("My Properties"), may be considered prose poemsClasse, Olive, editor, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English, "Henri Michaux" article, p 945, Volume 2, publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009 Pierre Reverdy, Sources du vent J. Slauerhoff, Fleurs de Marécage, Dutch poet writing in French, published in Belgium 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: Hindi Jagannathdas Ratnakar, Uddhava Satak, written in Brajabhasa in the Bhramaragit tradition of Krishna Bhakti verse; HindiDas, 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, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Nirala Suryakant Tripathi, Parimal, Hindi poems influenced by Chayavadi sensibility; includes "Juhi Ki Kali", a well-known poem in Hindi; also includes "Vidhava" and "Badal Rag" Ram Kumar Varma, Cittaur Ki Cita, Hindi-language historical poem on the glory of the Rajputs written in the Chayavadi style Ram Naresh Tripathi, Svapna, Hindi epic poem on women and patriotism Ramachandra Shukla, Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas, one of the earliest and most influential histories of Hindi literature; scholarship Uday Shankar Bhatta, Takasila, Hindi epic on the ancient glory of the city of Takshasila Malayalam Narayana Panikkar, Kerala Bhasa Sahitya Caritram, literary history in seven volumes, published from this year to 1951; won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature in 1955; scholarship P. K. Narayana Pillai, Tucattezhuttaccan, a study, in Malayalam of 16th-century poet Ezhuttacchan; criticism Ullur Paramesvara Iyer: Pingala, a well known sa khandakavya Karnabhusanam, on the episode in the Mahabharata in which Karna gives away his protective sa kavaca and sa kundals to Indra, disguised as a brahman Urdu Hafiz Jalandhari, Shahnamah-yi Islam, a history of the Islamic Empire in four volumes of verse, published from this year to 1947 Mohammad Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara ("The Caravan Bell") Dr. Rafiq Hussain and Amar Nath Jha, Urdu ghazal ki nashv o numa, treatise on the evolution of the Urdu ghazal Other Indian languages Devulappali Krishna Shastri, written in Telugu: Pravasamu, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time Urvasi, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time Dharmeshvari Devi Baruani, Phular Sarai, Assamese L. Kamal Singh, Lei pareng ("Garland"), Manipuri lyrics, many focusing on love for nature and solitude; academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das has called the work a landmark in Manipuri literature with which "modern Manipuri poetry began" Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Alvarkal Kalanilai, literary history of the 12 Alvars, saint poets of the Vaishnava sect, with an evaluation of their works as influenced by various factors; a Tamil-language work Jasimuddin, Naksikathar Math, narrative poem in Bengali about a tragic love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl; a companion volume to Rakhali 1930 and Dhankhet 1932 R. Narasimhachar, Karnataka Kavi Carite, Volume 3 of a three-volume history of Kannada literature, and written in that language (see also Volume 1, 1907); scholarship Rabinidrath Thakur, Mahuya, primarily live poems in Bengali U. V. Swaminatha Ayyar, Cankattamilum Pirkalattamilum, essays summarizing 10 lectures delivered at Madras University in 1927 on Sangam literature and post-Sangam literature Vakil Ahmed Shah Qureshi, Qissa Sulaiman O Bilqis, sufistic narrative poem in Kashmiri Zeb-un-Nissa (died 1702), Diwan-i-Makhfi, written in Persian Spanish language Spain Rafael Alberti: Cal y canto ("Lime and Song")Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Sobre los ángeles ("Over the Angels") Pedro Salinas, Seguro Azar (1924–1928) ("Certain Chance") José Moreno Villa, Jacinta la pelirroja ("Jacinta the Redhead") Latin America José María Eguren, Poesías, PeruFitts, 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 603 Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas, PeruFitts, 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 627 Other languages Alfred Desrochers, A l'ombre d'Orford, philosophical verse and poetry influenced by le terroir movement, French language, CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967 Halina Konopacka, Któregoś dnia (Some Day), Poland Mikhail Kuzmin, The Trout Breaks the Ice, Russian language, Soviet Union Peider Lansel, rm Il vegl chalamêr, Romansh language, Switzerland Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to military academy cadet Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) from 1902 to 1908, published by Kappus and Insel Verlag this year; Germany Awards and honors United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 9 – Heiner Müller (died 1995), German January 11 – Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic January 12 – Turner Cassity, American February 16 – Peter Porter (died 2010), Australian-born British poet, member of The Group, recipient of Medal of the Order of Australia February 28 – John Montague (died 2016), American-born Irish March 6 – Günter Kunert (died 2019), German April 2 – Edward Dorn (died 1999), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets May 16 – Adrienne Rich (died 2012), American poet June 2 – Robert Dana (died 2010), American, poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004 to 2008Daniel, Rob, "Ex-Iowa Poet Laureate Robert Dana dies", Iowa City Press Citizen, February 9, 2010. June 11 – George Garrett (died 2008), American poet and novelist July 13 – Teresa Bogusławska (died 1945), Polish poet and resistance worker July 15 – Rhoda Bulter (died 1994), Scottish poet July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe (died 2009), born Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English August 5 – Al Alvarez (died 2019), English poet, writer, editor and critic August 11 – Geeta Parikh (died 2012), Gujarati August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature (died 2026) August 29 – Thom Gunn (died 2004), English-born poet September 26 – Ned O'Gorman (died 2014), American poet and educator October 13 – Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator October 21 – Donald Finkel (died 2008), American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance UrdangFox, Margalit, "Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead", obituary, The New York Times, November 20, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008. October 23 – Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman") (died 2006), Bengali poet, columnist and journalist October 25 – Peter Rühmkorf (died 2008), German writer and poet October 26 – Dane Zajc (died 2005), Slovenian poet October 28 – John Hollander (died 2013), American poet and literary critic November 11 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger (died 2022), German poet and essayistHofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. December 9 – Don Maclennan (died 2009), English-born South African poet, critic and academicLoewe, Mike, "Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79", article, February 12, 2009, Independent Online website of the Independent newspaper, article "was originally published on page 9 of Cape Argus on February 12, 2009", according to the Web page, retrieved February 13, 2009. Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 27 – Libbie C. Riley Baer (born 1849), American patriotic poet March 8 – Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45 (born 1883), British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers March 28 – Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful" June 8 – Bliss Carman, 68 (born 1861), Canadian poet July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet and dramatist October – Arno Holz, 66 (born 1863), German Naturalist poet and dramatist November 3 – Olav Aukrust, 46 (born 1883), Norwegian poet and teacher See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry New Objectivity in German literature and art Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *