1927 in poetry

none 1927 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events thumb|right|150px|Hermann Hesse, photographed this year June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship. July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Works published Canada Alfred Bailey, Songs of the Saguenay and other poems."Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011. Wilson MacDonald, An Ode On The Diamond Jubilee Of Confederation. Toronto: W. MacDonald.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. E. J. Pratt, The Iron Door: An Ode, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time. (Toronto: Ryerson). India in English Swami Ananda Acharya: Sara and other poems (Poetry in English), Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pagesWeb page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era" https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryIndiv 2009-08-30 , compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. 2009-08-02. Arctic Swallows (Poetry in English)Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnetsDas, 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 Madras: printed at Hogarth PressVinayak 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 Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler (Poetry in English) Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose (Poetry in English), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)Vinayak 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 Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology (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. Ireland James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris W. B. Yeats: October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction United Kingdom G. K. Chesterton, Collected PoemsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Joe Corrie, The Image o' God and Other Poems, Scottish poet W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar T. S. Eliot Journey of the Magi "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) is published in December in Saturday Review of Literature; also published in January 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26 Teresa Hooley, Songs of All Seasons Violet Jacob, The Northern Lights and other poems, Scottish poet A. A. Milne, Now We are Six William Plomer, Notes for Poems Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed Iris Tree, The Traveller and other Poems Humbert Wolfe Cursory Rhymes Requiem W. B. Yeats October Blast, including "Among School Children", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction United States Sherwood Anderson, A New TestamentLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Countee Cullen, Copper SunFleming, 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, 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Donald Davidson, The Tall Men Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the JewRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3 Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur James Weldon Johnson: God's Trombones God's Promises Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship) Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter Alice Dunbar Nelson, Caroling Dusk - a collection of African-American poets Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921) Other in English Shaw Neilson, New Poems, Sydney, Bookfellow, Australia Works published in other languages France Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03. Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiquesBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!") Henri Michaux, Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.Michaux, Henri, edited by David Ball, Henri Michaux: Anthology 1927-1984 Selected, Translated and Presented by David Ball, Introduction by David Ball, p xxii, Footnote 4, University of California Press, 1997, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009 Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France 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: Bengali Jibanananda Das, Jhara Palak, the author's first book of poems; Bengali Mohitlal Majumdar, Bismarani, Bengali Yatindranath Sengupta, Marusikha, Bengali Other Indian languages Bhai Vir Singh, Bijalian De Har, short poems, mostly lyrical and didactic, Punjabi Muhammad Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam ("Persian Psalms") including the poems "Gulshan-i Raz-i Jadid" ("New Garden of Secrets") and "Bandagi Nama" ("Book of Slavery"), India Yaganab Changezi and Mirza Yas (writing under the pen name "Husain"), Ayat-i Vijdani, Urdu Keshavlal Dhruv, ed., Pandarma Shatakna Prachin Gurjar Kavyo, compilation of 15th-century Gujarati poems Ratnahas, Harishchandrakhyan, translated by Keshavlal Dhruv Spanish language Peru Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas ("5 Meters of Poems")Web page titled "5 METROS DE POEMAS / 5 METERS OF POEMS BY CARLOS OQUENDO DE AMAT" Bomblog website, retrieved May 11, 2013 Spain Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")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 Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesías ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"]) Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs") Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile") Other languages Chen Xiaocui, Cuilou Yincao, China Vladislav Khodasevich, European Night, Russian poet published in Germany Hendrik Marsman, Paradise Regained, Netherlands Awards and honors Newdigate Prize: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 8 – Charles Tomlinson (died 2015), English poet, translator, academic and artist February 1 – Galway Kinnell (died 2014), American poet February 16 – Pearse Hutchinson (died 2012), Scottish-born Irish poet, broadcaster and translator April 7 – Giampiero Neri, born Giampietro Pontiggia (died 2023), Italian poet April 8 Judson Jerome (died 1991), American poet Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster April 12 – Don Coles (died 2017), Canadian poet June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet June 8 – George Lamming (died 2022), Barbadian poet June 20 – Simin Behbahani (died 2014), Persian poet June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist July 9 – David Diop (died 1960), French Senegalese poet July 22 – John Tripp (died 1986), Anglo-Welsh poet in whose memory the annual John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award is presented July 28 – John Ashbery (died 2017), American poet, chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry August 6 – Richard Murphy, Irish-born poet August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet, early in his career associated with the Black Mountain poets; later recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, e.g., Language poetry August 15 – Patrick Galvin (died 2011), Irish poet and dramatist September 7 – Molly Holden (died 1981), English poet September 20 – Elisabet Hermodsson (died 2017), Swedish poet and artist September 30 – W. S. Merwin (died 2019), American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry October 16 – Günter Grass (died 2015), German author and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician December 3 – James Wright (died 1980), American poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, سلیمان نظیف (born 1870), Turkish poet and politician, pneumonia April 6 – Florence Earle Coates (born 1850), American poet, dies in Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez (born 1857), Colombian poet July 5 – Lesbia Harford (born 1892), Australian poet July 7 – Charles Mair (born 1838), Canadian poet September 14 – Hugo Ball (born 1886), German Dada author and poet September 15 – Herman Gorter (born 1864), Dutch poet and socialist October 8 – Ricardo Güiraldes (born 1886), Argentine-born novelist and poet October 26 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (born 1898), Japanese poet (surname: Yagi) See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry New Objectivity in German literature and art Generation of '27 in Spanish poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *