1914 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford.
- March – The Little Review founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance
- July 2 – BLAST, a short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, is founded with the publication of the first of its total of two editions
- The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce
- Jethmal Parsram (1885-1948) and Lalchand Amardinomal Jagatiani (1885-1954) found the Sindhi Sahita Society, a publishing house, in India.[1]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Canada
- Wilfred Campbell, Sagas of Vaster Britain[2]
- Katherine Hale, Grey Knitting[2]
- George A. MacKenzie, In that New World Which is the Old[2]
- Laura E. McCulley, Mary Magdalene and Other Poems, 50 poems; her first book of poetry[2]
- Beatrice Redpath, Drawn Shutters, her first book[2]
- Lloyd Roberts, England Over Seas[2]
- Arthur Stringer, Open Water, free verse, Canada[3]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Laurence Binyon, The Winnowing-Fan, including "For the Fallen"[4]
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Poetical Works[4]
- W. H. Davies, The Bird of Paradise, and Other Poems[4]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Borderlands[4]
- Thomas Hardy, Satires of Circumstance
- John Masefield, Philip the King, and Other Poems[4]
- Marian Osborne, Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Ezra Pound, editor, Des Imagistes: An Anthology, the first anthology of the Imagism movement; published by the Poetry Bookshop in London and issued in America both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical The Glebe for February 1914 (issue #5)
- W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[5]
[edit] United States
- Robert Frost, North of Boston
- Joyce Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems, including "Trees"
- Ezra Pound, editor, Des Imagistes: An Anthology, the first anthology of the Imagism movement; published by the Poetry Bookshop in London and issued in America both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical The Glebe for February 1914 (issue #5)
- Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" in Poetry magazine
- Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
- Wallace Stevens' first major publication (of his poem "Phases") is in the November issue of Poetry[6] The poem was written when Stevens was 35, and he is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. (Many of his canonical works were written well after he turned fifty.) According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, no Western writer since Sophocles has had such a late flowering of artistic genius.
[edit] Other in English
- Christopher Brennan, Poems: 1913, Australia
- W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[7]
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Anna Akhmatova, The Rosary, her second collection, by this time there are thousands of women composing their poems "after Akhmatova"; the book becomes so popular in Russia that a "parlor game based upon the book was even invented. One person would recite a line of poetry and the next person would try to recite the next, until the entire book was recited."[8]
- Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism in (India)[9]
- Ernst Stadler, Der Aufbruch, this German poet's most important volume of verse, regarded as a key work of early Expressionism; he was killed in battle this year.
[edit] Indian
- Narasinghrao, Nupurjhankar (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[9]
[edit] Telugu language
- Kattamanci Ramalinga Reddi, Kavitya Tattva Vicaramu, criticism[1]
- Ramalinga Reddi / Kattamanci Ramalinga Reddi, Kavitya Tattva Vicaramu, book of criticism, called a "very controversial" and "scathing critique of traditional poetry" and also a "pioneering work in modern Telugu criticism"[1]
- Burra Seshagiri Rao, Vimarsadarsamu, book partly about the relationship between poetry and society[1]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 14 – Dudley Randall (died 2000) African American poet and poetry publisher, founding Broadside Press in 1965
- February 7 – David Ignatow (died 1997), American poet
- February 14 – Jan Nisar Akhtar (died 1976) Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms and lyricist for Bollywood
- February 24 – Weldon Kees (missing and presumed dead, 1955), American poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, composer and artist.
- March 31 – Octavio Paz (died 1998) Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990
- May 6 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and writer
- June 26 – Laurie Lee
- July 30 – Tachihara Michizō 立原道造 (died 1939), poet and architect
- October 25 – John Berryman (born John Allyn Smith) (died 1972) American poet considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry
- October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet
- October 30 – James Laughlin (died 1997), American poet and literary book publisher, founder of New Directions Publishers
- Also:
- Punkunnam Damodaran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and playwright[1]
- Devakanta Barua, Indian, Assamese-language poet[1]
- G. V. Krishna Rao (died 1979), Indian, Tegulu-language poet and novelist[1]
- Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri (died 2004), also known as "Fazil Kashmiri", Indian, Kashmiri-language poet (surname: Fazil)[1]
- Kunjabihari Das, Indian, Orissa-language poet, folklorist, travel writer and memoirist[1]
- Laksmidhar Nayak, Indian, Oriya playwright, novelist, poet and labor leader[1]
- Narayan Bezbarua, Indian, Assamese-language poet, novelist and playwright[1]
- Narmada Prasad Khare, Indian, Hindi-language poet and editor[1]
- Yamazaki Hōdai 山崎方代 (died 1985), Showa period tanka poet (family name: Yamazaki)
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 13 – John Philip Bourke (born 1860), Australian
- March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
- July 23 – Charlotte Forten Grimké, 76, African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and teacher
- October 8 – Adelaide Crapsey 26 (born 1878, American poet
- October 10 – Ernst Stadler (born 1883), German poet killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres in the early months of World War I.
- November 3 – Georg Trakl, 27, Austrian poet
- Also:
- Madison Cawein (born 1865), American
- Kerala Varma Valia Koyittampuran, also known as Kerala Varma (born 1845 in poetry), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator who had an equal facility in writing in English and Sanskrit[10]
- K. C. Kesava Pillai (born 1868), Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet[10]
[edit] See also
- List of years in poetry
- Dada
- Dymock poets
- Imagism
- Modernist poetry in English
- Russian Futurism movement in Russian poetry
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
- Expressionism movement in German poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
- Poetry
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 83
- ^ Wallace Stevens (search results), Poetry Magazine.
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 83
- ^ [1]Debka, Jill, "Akhmatova: Biographical/Historical Overview" short biographical sketch of Akhmatova, accessed December 8, 2006
- ^ a b 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, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ a b 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
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