1925 in poetry

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

[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

Robert Bridges, The Tapestry: Poems and New Verse which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
E. E. Cummings:
- & (self-published)
- 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
Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye (France)
W.B. Yeats, A Vision

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 10— Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
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

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

^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X

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