1925 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 |
| Years in literature: | 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 |
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[edit] Events
- T.S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank.
- January — Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to stay there permanently after a brief stay the year before.[1]
- An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940
[edit] Works published
- Robert Bridges, The Tapestry: Poems and New Verse which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
- E. E. Cummings, & and XLI Poems
- Hilda Doolittle, Collected Poems of H.D.
- T.S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
- Thomas Hardy, Human Shows
- Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos
- J.R.R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- W.B. Yeats, A Vision
[edit] Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
[edit] Births
- February 8 — Francis Webb, Australian poet
- February 27 — Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
- March 14 — John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
- April 18 — Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
- August 12 — Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
- October 28 — Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scots poet, writer, artist — and gardener
- December 10 — Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
- date not known:
- Philip Booth, American poet
- Theodore Enslim
- Maxine Kumin, American poet and author
- Gerald Stern, American poet
[edit] Deaths
- January 31 — George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
- May 12 — Amy Lowell, 51, American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
- June 17 — Arthur Christopher Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
- December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet
- date not known — Alfred Denis Godley
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X
