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1928 poetry literature
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Events
January 16 – English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; pallbearers at the ceremony include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw.Threefold Tribute To Thomas Hardy Liverpool Echo 1928-01-16 12 At the same time, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset.Charles Angell Bradford Bradford Charles Angell Heart Burial 1933 Allen & Unwin London 978-1-162-77181-6 246 Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891 (Macmillan), in fact largely dictated by Hardy.Gittings Robert Robert Gittings Young Thomas Hardy 1978 Penguin Books 15–17
September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others.
November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More").
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.
The only surviving fragment of Erinna's Greek poem The Distaff (probably first half of the 4th century BCE) is found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.West Martin Litchfield 1977 Erinna Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH 25 95–119 20181346
The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.In The Week-end Book – Oxford English Dictionary.
Works published in English
Canada
Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" https://web.archive.org/web/20120905023413/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works 2012-09-05 , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson).Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets https://web.archive.org/web/20110106061322/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/hidden_rooms/susan_frances_harrison.htm 2011-01-06 , Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
India, in English
V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, 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
Joseph Furtado, A Goan FiddlerK. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, "The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo", in Naik, M. K., Perspectives in Indian Poetry in English, p 17, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications (1984), retrieved August 10, 2010
Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
United Kingdom
Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there
W. H. Davies, Collected Poems
T. S. Eliot:
"Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 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)
A Song for Simeon printed in September by Faber & Gwyer as part of its Ariel poems series.Eliot, T. S. "A Song for Simeon" in Ariel 16. (London: Faber and Faber, 1928); Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969). "A11. A Song for Simeon" is listed as "A.11"
H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798–1837: 1798–1837, Clarendon Press, anthologyPreminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p. 353; also Google Books page
Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems
John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse
Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death
Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey
A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse
Humbert Wolfe:
The Silver Cat, and Other Poems
This Blind Rose
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):
The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
United States
W. H. Auden, PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree
John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock
Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill
Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems
William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth
Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem
Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow
Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun
Ezra Pound:
Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London,Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p. 121 American poet living in Europe
A Draft of the Cantos 17–27
Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927
Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America
Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath
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
Other in English
John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South Africa
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
Works published in other languages
France
René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeurBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Léon-Paul Fargue:
BanalitéAuster, 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
Vulturne
Francis Jammes, DianeWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
Pierre Jean Jouve, Les NocesHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes
Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu
Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond
Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur
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:
Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila",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, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"), long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language;Paniker, 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 a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet
Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese
Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales
Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu
Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri
Spanish language
Spain
Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poemsDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 42, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads")
Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)
Other in Spanish
Martín Adan, La case de cartón, a novel in verse, 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 589
Nellie Campobello, Yo, Mexico
José Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, 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 635
Other languages
Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime, French language, CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp. 651–654, Oxford University Press, 1967
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Hazon Ehad Ha-Legionot ("A Vision of One of the Legions"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
Stefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"), Germany"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
Federico García Lorca, Romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads"), Spain
Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), second edition, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo (first published in 1925; third edition, 1931), Lanciano: Carabba, ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6
Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)International League of Antiquarian Booksellers website, search results for this name, retrieved January 1, 2009
J. Slauerhoff, Eldorado, Dutch
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scottish poet and fiction writer in both English and Scottish Gaelic
January 8 – Gaston Miron (died 1996), Canadian poet and author
January 10 – Philip Levine (died 2015), American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
January 29 – Gene Frumkin (died 2007), American poet
February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald (died 2015, American poet
February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004), Australian poet
February 25 – Hushang Ebtehaj (H. E. Sayeh) (died 2022), Persian poet
March 1 – Conrad Hilberry (died 2017), American poet
March 4 – Alan Sillitoe (died 2010), English poet and writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
March 13 – Bob Brissenden (died 1991), Australian poet
March 18 – Dave Etter (died 2015), American poet
March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
April 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poet
April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
April 26 – Hertha Kräftner (died 1951), Austrian poetHofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
May 4 – Thomas Kinsella (died 2021), Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
May 11 – Luo Fu (or Lo Fu, pen name of Mo Luofu; died 2018), Chinese-language Taiwanese poet, writer and translatorBalcom, John, "Lo Fu" https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 2011-01-01 , article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
June 24 – ruth weiss (died 2020), German-born American poet of the Beat Generation
June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor and publisher
July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African-American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
September 20
Alberto de Lacerda (died 2007), Mozambique-born Portuguese poet
Donald Hall (died 2018), American poet and U.S. Poet Laureate
September 22
Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
Édouard Glissant (died 2011), French-Martiniquan poet and writer.The Washington Post 2011-02-03 Martinican poet Edouard Glissant dies at age 83 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020302663.htmlJune 2021 medicmedic
October 17 – Rosemary Tonks (died 2014), English poet and novelist
October 28 – Yu Guangzhong (余光中) (died 2017), Chinese writer, poet, educator and critic
November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
December 3 – Karin Bang (died 2017), Norwegian novelist and poet
December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic"Poet Milan Rufus Dies in Bratislava" https://web.archive.org/web/20120217143034/http://www.tasr.sk/30.axd?k=20090111TBB00403 2012-02-17 , article, January 11, website of TASR (News Agency of the Slovak Republic), retrieved same day
December 15 – William Dickey (died 1994), American poet
December 23 – Anthony Cronin (died 2016), Irish poet
Also:
Carol Bergé (died 2006), American poet
Rasa Chughtai (died 2018), Indian-born Pakistani poet
Deaths
thumb|250px|Burial place of Thomas Hardy's heart
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 11 – Thomas Hardy (born 1840), English novelist and poet
February 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
February 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarian
March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen (born 1896), Belgian poet
March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
May 16 – Edmund Gosse (born 1849), English poet and critic
July 20 – Kostas Karyotakis (born 1896), Greek poet
August 16 – Antonín Sova (born 1864), Czech poet and librarian
September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
December 16 – Elinor Wylie (born 1885), American poet and novelist
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
New Objectivity in German literature and art
Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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