1922 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
Years in literature:	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
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Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925

[edit] Events

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established
The Criterion appears
William Butler Yeats' Who goes with Fergus (first published in 1892 is the song James Joyce has his character Stephen Daedalus sing to his mother as she lies dying in the novel Ulysses, published this year (the poem was Joyce's favorite lyric)
November: Robert Bridges publishes his essay on free verse: 'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum'.

Epigraph and dedication to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Anna Akhmatova, Anno Domini MCMXXI
Mário de Andrade, Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City)
Hilda Conkling, Shoes of the Wind
Thomas Hardy, Late Lyrics and Earlier
James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry
Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows
Marjorie Pickthall, The Wood Carver's Wife, including "Marching Men"
Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, second series
Carl Sandburg, Slabs of the Sunburnt West
César Vallejo, Trilce
Sir William Walton's composition, Façade, a musical setting of 21 poems by Edith Sitwell
W.B. Yeats, Later Poems

March 12 — Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation school of poetry
April 16 — Kingsley Amis, English writer and poet
July 17 — Donald Davie, English poet and critic who belonged to the Movement
August 9 — Philip Larkin (died 1985), English poet, novelist and jazz critic
August 26 — Elizabeth Brewster, Canadian poet and academic
September 12 — Jackson Mac Low, (died 2004) American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
December 3 — Eli Mandel (died 1992) was a Canadian poet and literary academic
date not known:
- Aris Alexandrou, Greek
- John Bruce
- Douglas Grant Lochhead
- A. L. Hendricks (Jamaica)
- Sidney Arthur
- Kilworth Keyes
- John Gillespie Magee Jr.
- Vernon Scannell, British poet, author and at one time a professional boxer who has written novels about boxing

January 21 — John Kendrick Bangs, 59, American author, satirist, poet and the creator of Bangsian fantasy, a school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife
February 3 — John Butler Yeats, poet
September 2 — Henry Lawson, 55, Australian writer and poet
September 10 — Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 62, British poet and writer
November 27 — Alice Meynell, 75, née Thompson, English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet
date not known:
- Josephine Peabody
- Marjorie Pickthall
- Walter Alexander Raleigh