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1924 in poetry
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1924 poetry literature
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
October 10 – Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily (he will return to settle in Rapallo in January 1925).Nadel, Ira B. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound xxii Cambridge University Press 1999 0-521-64920-X https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_q6p0
McGill Daily Literary Supplement started at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (ceases publication in 1925; followed by the McGill Fortnightly Review, 1925–1927) by A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leon Edel, and later joined by A. M. Klein and Leo Kennedy. The periodical, which publishes poems and articles on contemporary trends, is the first in Canada to offer consistent commentary on modernist principles in poetry and literature.Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960"July 2026 InternetArchiveBot , article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
Daniel Corkery publishes the study of 18th century Irish poetry, The Hidden Ireland.
Works published
Australia
Arthur Henry Adams, Fifty Nursery Rhymes with Music, Australian
Edwin James Brady, The Land of the Sun
C. J. Dennis, Rose of Spadgers
Kenneth Slessor, Thief of the Moon, Sydney: Hand press of J. T. Kirtley, Australia
India in English
Sri Aurobindo, Love and Death, Madras: Shama's Publishing HouseVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
United Kingdom
Kenneth H. Ashley, Up Hill and Down Dale
Roy Campbell, The Flaming TerrapinCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
T. S. Eliot, Homage to John Dryden (criticism)
From Overseas, verse from the British colonies; the first published anthology to include Caribbean poetry, with works by nine Jamaican poets includedBrenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p 62, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 978-0-521-58712-9, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
Aldous Huxley, Little Mexican, and Other Stories
John Masefield, Sard Harker
Susan Miles, The Hares
A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, for children
Edith Sitwell, The Sleeping Beauty
A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomJoshi, 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.
Humbert Wolfe, Kensington Gardens
W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heliodora and Other PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Hilda Conkling, Silverhorn
William Faulkner, The Marble Faun
Robinson Jeffers, Tamar and Other Poems
William Ellery Leonard, Tutankhamen and After
Archibald MacLeish, The Happy Marriage and Other Poems
Edgar Lee Masters, The New Spoon RiverRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3
Marianne Moore, Observations
James Oppenheim, The Sea
John Crowe Ransom, Chills and Fever
Mark Van Doren, Spring Thunder
Other in English
A. H. Stockwell, editor, Eastern Dreams: a Selection of Verse, London; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
W. B. Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, drama and verse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France
Anthologie des écrivains morts à la guerre
Robert Desnos, Deuil pour deuilBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Francis Jammes, Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to 1925Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, La coupe de cendres ("The Cup of Ashes"), Malagasy poet writing in French
Pierre Reverdy, Les Épaves du cielPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger:
Amitié du prince, Paris: Ronald DavisWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24.
Anabase, Paris: Gallimard (revised edition 1948)
Other languages
Delmira Agustini, Obras completas ("Complete Works"): Volume 1, El rosario de Eros; Volume 2: Los astros del abismo, posthumously published (died 1914), Montevideo, Uruguay: Máximo GarcíaWeb page titled "Delmira Agustini" https://web.archive.org/web/20110902004757/http://www.ale.uji.es/agustini.htm 2011-09-02 at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011
Hugo Ball, 7 schizophrene Sonette, German poet in Switzerland
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Toomas ja Mai, Estonia
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), the first philosophical poetry book the author writes and publishes in Urdu rather than Persian (translated into English by M.A.K. Khalil in 1996)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Soviet Russia
Gabriela Mistral, Ternura: canciones de niños, Madrid: Saturnino CallejaWeb page titled "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Bibliography", Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010
Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), ChileTarn, Nathaniel 1975 Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems Penguin 14
Sergei Yesenin, Land of Scoundrels, Soviet Russia
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 8 – Lisel Mueller (died 2020), American poet
March 2 – Edgar Bowers (died 2000) American poet
March 5 – David Ferry (died 2023), American poet and translator
March 22 – Michael Hamburger (died 2007), British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
April 2 – Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand poet
April 21 – P. Bhaskaran (died 2007), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriterPaniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
May 3 – Yehuda Amichai יהודה עמיחי (died 2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
May 7 – Marjorie Boulton (died 2017), English poet and literary critic writing also in Esperanto
May 12 – Claribel Alegría (died 2018), Nicaraguan novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
June 7 – Edward Field (died 2026), American poet and author
June 29
Cid Corman (died 2004), American poet, translator and editor
John Haines (died 2011), American poet
July 19 – Vassar Miller (died 1998), American poet
August 22 – Ada Jafri (died 2015), Urdu poet
August 28 – Janet Frame (died 2004) New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
September 28 – James Berry (died 2017), Jamaican-born poet
October 9 – Jane Cooper (died 2007), American poet
October 20 – Robert Peters (died 2014), American poet, critic, scholar, playwright and editor
October 29 – Zbigniew Herbert (died 1998), Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
November 25 – Takaaki Yoshimoto 吉本隆明, also known as "Ryūmei Yoshimoto" (died 2012), Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher; father of the writer Banana Yoshimoto and cartoonist Haruno Yoiko (surname: Yoshimoto)
November 28 – Dennis Brutus (died 2009), South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist,June 2021 medicmedic imprisoned in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965;http://www.ru.ac.za/alumni/news/deceased/dennisbrutusJune 2017 InternetArchiveBot yes earns the Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary artsPoetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader Publisher's page includes video of Brutus and a remembrance by Amy Goodman.
December 20 – Friederike Mayröcker (died 2021), Austrian poet
December 21 – Alphonse Allain (died 2022), French Norman language poet
December 24 – Nissim Ezekiel (died 2004), Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English.
Also:
Elizabeth Bartlett (died 2008), English poet
Matthew Mead (died 2009), English poet and editor
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 16 – Kumaran Asan, 50 (born 1873), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
May 4 – Edith Nesbit, 65 (born 1858), English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
July 19 – Kingsley Fairbridge, 39 (born 1885), South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, 66 (born 1858), American editor and writer
December 8 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥, 40 (born 1884), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet (surname: Bochō)
December 15 – William Herbert Carruth, 65 (born 1859), American poet
December 23 – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, 59? (born 1865?), English poet
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
New Objectivity in German literature and art
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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