1911 in poetry

none 1911 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events c. April 8 – English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to live near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, first of the Dymock poetsJeff Cooper Timeline of the Dymock Poets Friends of the Dymock Poets http://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm 2014-07-03 2015-06-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20150621185638/http://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm dead c. August – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from The Louvre museum in Paris and imprisoned for six daysAuster, Paul 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 https://archive.org/details/randomhousebooko00aust December 16 – The Copyright Act in the United Kingdom consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries in each of which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library (London); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); the Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College Dublin; and Cambridge University Library Works published in English thumb|180px|William Butler Yeats, photographed this year by George Charles Beresford Canada J. D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland LyricsGarvin, John William https://archive.org/details/canadianpoets00garvgoog Canadian Poets McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart 1916 2009-06-05 Arthur Stringer, Irish Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley. United Kingdom Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911 G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White HorseCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy Harold Monro, Before Dawn (poems and impressions) Stephen Phillips, The New Inferno Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United KingdomPeter Ackroyd Ackroyd Peter Ezra Pound Thames and Hudson Ltd London 1980 Bibliography 121 Katharine Tynan, New Poems Anna Wickham, Songs of John Oland United States Franklin P. Adams, Tobogganing on ParnassusLudwig Richard M. Clifford A. Nault, Jr Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 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. Preface vi Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom George Sterling, The House of Orchids Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy Other in English Victor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, Australia J. N. Gupta, The Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, (Dutt (1848–1920) is an Indian poet writing in English), published in New York and London this year Works published in other languages France Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, Paris: Deplanche;"Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" https://web.archive.org/web/20090510032910/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=196 2009-05-10 at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009 his first book of poetry (see also "Events" section, above) Paul Claudel: L'Otage, FranceHartley, Anthony The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century Baltimore Penguin Books 1967 Chemin de Croix Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrède Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912"Poet Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments Saint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France"Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-23. May Ziadeh, writing as Isis Copia, Fleurs de rêve, Lebanese-Palestinian poet writing in French 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: Devendranath Sen, Indian, Bengali-language poet: Golap Guccha Sisu Mangal Apurba Naibedya Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic formNatarajan, Nalini Emmanuel Sampath Nelson https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA306 Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India Chapter 11: Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature G. K. Subbarayudu C. Vijayasree 1996 306–328 9780313287787 2009-01-04 (surname: Gurajada) S. G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada languageDas, 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 Tirupati Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales (surname: Tirupathi) Other languages Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony, Greece José María Eguren, Simbólicas,, PeruFitts, Dudley Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn.; London New Directions; The Falcoln Press 1947 603 Georg Heym, Der Krieg and Der ewige Tag, Germany Vicente Huidobro, Ecos del alma, Chile Else Lasker-Schüler, Meine Wunder, Germany Awards and honors United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb Riley Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984), Pakistani poet February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner February 13 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz (died 1984), Indian, Urdu-language poet, teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcaster February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet February 28 – Amir Hamzah (died 1946), Indonesian poet styled a national hero March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poet May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet May 13 – N. V. Krishna Warrier (died 1989), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, critic and scholar who introduces new types of long narrative poems and satires; editor of weekly Mathrubhumi; director of Kerala Bhasa Institute May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary critic June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poet June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist June 28 – Clem Christesen (died 2003), Australian poet, founding editor of Meanjin June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004), Polish poet, prose writer and translator. July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poet August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic and teacher September 3 – Ernst Meister (died 1979), GermanHofmann, Michael Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Macmillan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 September 9 Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet Ale Ahmad Suroor (died 2002), Indian Urdu-language poet October 11 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translatorPaniker Ayyappa https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&q=%22Balijepalli+Lakshmikantham%22&pg=PA411 Modern Malayalam Literature George, K. M. Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology 231–255 Sahitya Akademi 1992 9788172013240 2009-01-10 October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ('Migjeni') (died 1938), Albanian poet and writer October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet October 28 – Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), French November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), Greek November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), Australian December 13 – Kenneth Patchen (died 1972) American poet and novelist Also: Robert Clark (died 2004), Indian-born AustralianRobert Clark Friendly Street Poets http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/clark.htm 2007-05-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20070612061858/http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/clark.htm 2007-06-12 dead Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 15 – Carolina Coronado (born 1820), Spanish Romantic poet, member of Hermandad Lírica February 22 – Frances Harper (born 1825), African-American abolitionist, poet and author April 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835), English civil servant, literary historian and poet May 29 – W. S. Gilbert (born 1836), English comic poet and librettist July 16 – Amelia Denis de Icaza (born 1836), Panamanian romantic poet in Nicaragua August 7 – Elizabeth Akers Allen (born 1832), American author, journalist and poet December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, writing as Graham R. Tomson (born 1860), English poet Also: Jwala Prasad Barq (born 1863), Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translator Eknath Ganesh Bhandare (born 1863), Indian, Marathi-language poet, translator and station-master Abdul Ahad Nadim (born 1840), Indian, Urdu-language poet, writer of "nats" (devotional lyrics addressed to the Prophet) in the traditional variety of the Kashmiri '"Vatsun" See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry Silver Age of Russian Poetry Acmeist poetry movement in Russian poetry Dymock poets Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry Expressionism movement in German poetry Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature Notes Category:20th-century poetry *