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1925 poetry literature
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Events
January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before.Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 0-521-64920-X
February 11 – Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana".Editors' Note, The Nation Vol. 120, No. 3110, page 148 (11 February 1925)Mark Van Doren in Prize Poems, 1913-1929 page 19 (NY: Charles Boni, 1930): "The Nation prize ... was always a spectacle to be looked forward to, and the fame which came to certain poems like...Eli Siegel's "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" was an interesting index of the importance attributed by the lay public to poetry."Editors Oswald Garrison Villard, Lewis S. Gannett, Arthur Warner, Joseph Wood Krutch, Freda Kirchwey, and Mark Van Doren, The Nation Vol. 120, No. 3110, page 136 (11 February 1925).Alexander Laing in "The Nation and its Poets," page 212. The Nation, Vol. 201, No. 8 (20 September 1965)
February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.Neal T. Jones, editor, A Book of Days for the Literary Year, New York and London: Thames and Hudson (1984), unpaginated, 0-500-01332-2
November 21 – First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
December 28 – Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (b. 1895) writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (ru До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья), in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad.
T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishing house of Faber and Gwyer.
An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940.
Works published
Canada
Arthur Bourinot, Pattering Feet: A book of childhood verses.August 2022
Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Duncan Campbell Scott ed. Posthumously published—not to be confused with Lampman's 1895 book of the same name.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Marjorie Pickthall:
Little Songs (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)
The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)."Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works", Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011
E. J. Pratt, The Witches' Brew, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography", Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
Charles G. D. Roberts. The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Seven Poems. private.
Seranus, Songs of Love and Labor (Toronto: Author).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.
India in English
Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems (Poetry in English), Allahabad: The Indian Press 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
M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute (Poetry in English), Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works
United Kingdom
Edmund Blunden, Masks of TimeCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6
Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years
Robert Bridges:
New Verse Written in 1921 which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
The Tapestry: Poems
W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet
Cecil Day-Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems
T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
'Gawain Poet' (14th century), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon
Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose
Graham Greene, Babbling April
Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw
Edwin Muir, First Poems
Edith Sitwell, Troy Park
Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier
Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess
W. B. Yeats, A Vision
United States
Léonie Adams, Those Not ElectLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams
Stephen Vincent Benét, Tiger Joy
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
Color
E. E. Cummings:
& (self-published)
XLI Poems
Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock
John Gould Fletcher, Parables
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Collected Poems of H.D.
Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden
Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion
William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives
Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth
Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, ParisAckroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt
Eli Siegel, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana"
Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides
Other in English
W. B. Yeats, A Vision, Ireland
Works published in other languages
France
Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, fr Le cortege priapique, posthumously published (died 1918)Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03.
Louis Aragon, fr Le Mouvement perpétuelAuster, 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
Antonin Artaud:
fr L'ombilic des limbes ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue FrançaiseWeb page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
fr Le Pese-nerfs
André Breton, fr Clair de terre
Paul Claudel, fr Feuilles de saints
Max Jacob, fr Les Penitants en maillots roses
Francis Jammes:
fr Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions SpesWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868–1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
fr Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this year
Raymond Radiguet, fr Les Joues en feu, published posthumously (author died this year)Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Pierre Reverdy, fr Grande Nature
Jules Supervielle, fr Gravitations
Charles Vildrac, fr Poèmes de l'Abbaye
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:
Hindi
Jayashankar Prasad, hi Asu, Chayavadi poem on love and beautyDas, 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
Maithilisharan Gupta, hi Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legend
Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, hi Achuta, verses on social and political problems
Telugu
Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, te Krishna Paksham, a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature
Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, te Yenki PataluSarma, C.R., "Modern Indian Literature, An Anthology: Surveys and Poems", chapter in George, K. M., Modern Indian Literature, p 409, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1994, 81-7201-324-8, 978-81-7201-324-0, retrieved June 2, 2009 (another source spells the title as te Enki patalu; "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature; a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri")
Rayaprolu Subba Rao, te Jada Kucculu, lyrics
Visvanatha Satyanarayana, te Kinnerasani patalu (also rendered te Kinnera Sani Patalu; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and te Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volume
Other Indian languages
Altaf Husain Hali, ur Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, gu Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)Mohan, 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
Dimbeshwar Neog, as Thupitra, Assamese-language
Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, mr Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems
Rabindranath Thakur, bn Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, as Kamal Kali, Assamese
Syed jalal, ur Mahakmah-yi Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, Hali Ki inshapardazi par, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali
D. T. Tatacharya, sa Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, te Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos
Spanish language
Rafael Alberti, es Marinero en tierra ("Sailor on Land"); 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
Rafael Méndez Dorich, es Sensacionario (Buenos Aires), Peruvian poet published in ArgentinaWeb page titled "Rafael Méndez Dorich," Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011; also: Fitts, 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 619
José Gorostiza, es Canciones para cantar en las barcas ("Songs to Sing on Boats"), Mexico
Salvador Novo, es XX Poemas ("20 Poems"), Mexico
Miguel de Unamuno, es De Fuerteventura a París ("From Fuerteventura to Paris"), Spain
Other languages
Sophus Claussen, da Heroica, including da Atomernes Oprør ("Revolt of the Atoms"), DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Uri Zvi Greenberg, he Eymah Gedolah Ve-Yareah ("A Great Fear and the Moon"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
Lionel Léveillé, fr Chante, rossignol, chante, French language, CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
Eugenio Montale, it Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; 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
Awards and honors
Dial Award: E.E. Cummings
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
January 20 – Jamiluddin Aali ur جمیل الدین عالی (died 2015), Indian-born Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar
February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
February 20 – Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (died 2023), Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacher
February 22 – Gerald Stern (died 2022), American
February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
March 13 – Inge Müller (died 1966) East German
March 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
March 25 – Theodore Enslin (died 2011), American
April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
June 6 – Maxine Kumin (died 2014), American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982
July 4 – Ciril Zlobec (died 2018), Slovene poet and politician
August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
August 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet and philologist"Famous Azerbaijani poet Bahtiyar Vahabzade died" https://web.archive.org/web/20090215202122/http://news-en.trend.az/culture/1424433.html 2009-02-15 , article, February 13, 2009, Trend News Agency website, retrieved same day
September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004August 23, 2011 https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/samuel-menashe.html Poet Samuel Menashe has died - latimes.com Latimesblogs.latimes.com 2011-08-24
October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
November 15 – Heinz Piontek (died 2003), GermanHofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
November 27 – Munier Choudhury (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 10 – Carolyn Kizer (died 2014), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
December 12 – Laurence Lerner (died 2016), South African-born poet and academic
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄, pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886), Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen)
February 22 – Nina Salaman, 47 (born 1877), English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry; cancer
May 12 – Amy Lowell, 51 (born 1874), American poet of the imagist school; posthumously wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, 54 (born 1870), French poet
June 17 – A. C. Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
June 27 – A. D. Godley, 69, Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, 81 (born 1844) German poet and librettist
October 27 – Darrell Figgis, 43 (born 1882), Irish poet and nationalist; suicide
December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian 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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