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1926 poetry literature
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Events
The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes
Works published
Canada
William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.
Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (Québec: Dussault & Proulx)."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
Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),Naik, 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
The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; 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.
Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticismMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
United Kingdom
Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
Edmund Blunden, English PoemsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song
Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Scots language poet:⁵
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Penny Wheep
Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead
Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
Vita Sackville-West, The Land
Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Humbert Wolfe:
Humoresque
News of the Devil
W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan
United States
Hart Crane, White BuildingsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & RowRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3
E. E. Cummings, is 5
John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam
Langston Hughes, The Weary BluesFleming, 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
Vachel Lindsay:
Going to the Stars
The Candle in the Cabin
Amy Lowell, East Wind
Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem
John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems
Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems
Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon
Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems
Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others
Other in English
W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France
Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by SurrealismBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
Dessous d'une vie
Capitale de la douleurAuster, 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 ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; FranceWeb page titled "Poet Francis Jammes (1868-1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
Pierre Jean Jouve:
Mystérieuses Noces
Nouvelles Noces
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later become India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-languageDas, 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
Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)
Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor
S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil
Spanish language
Peru
Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, AntipoemasFitts, 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 595
Alejandro Peralta, AndeFitts, 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
Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra
Other in Spanish
Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); SpainDebicki, 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
Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico
Other languages
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet[Japanese-American Internee Data File], 1942–1946 https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=2003&mtch=1&tf=F&q=Albert+Saijo&bc=,sl,fd&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=72156 https://web.archive.org/web/20141213024405/http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=2003&mtch=1&tf=F&q=Albert+Saijo&bc=,sl,fd&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=72156 dead December 13, 2014 July 19, 2013 National Archives and Records Administration 1988–89
February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
February 25 – Russell Atkins (died 2024), African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
June 5 – David Wagoner (died 2021), American poet and novelist
June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist
November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
December 23 – Robert Bly (died 2021), American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia
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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