1924 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 |
| Years in literature: | 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 |
| 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: | 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily (he will return to settle in Rapallo in January 1925.[1]
[edit] Works published
- Edwin James Brady, The Land of the Sun
- Hilda Conkling, Silverhorn
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Heliodora and Other Poems
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), the first philosophical poetry book he wrote and published in Urdu rather than Persian (translated into English by M.A.K. Khalil in 1996)
- John Masefield, Sard Harker
- A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, for children
- Marianne Moore, Observations
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
- April 2 — Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand poet
- May 12 — Claribel Alegria Nicaraguan native and novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
- June 29 — Cid Corman (died 2004), American poet, translator and editor
- August 28 — Janet Frame (died 2004) New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
- October 29 — Zbigniew Herbert (died 1998) Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
- December 24 — Nissim Ezekiel (died 2004), Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English
- Yehuda Amichai (died 2000) Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
- Elizabeth Bartlett
- Edgar Bowers
- Dennis Brutus, South African poet
- Jane Cooper
- David Ferry
- Edward Field
- Michael Hamburger
- John Haines
- Lisel Mueller, American poet
[edit] Deaths
- May 4 — Edith Nesbit, 65, English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
- July 19 — Kingsley Fairbridge, 39, South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
- date not known:
- William Herbert Carruth
- Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X
