1925 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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]
- February 21–The first issue of The New Yorker is published.[2]
- An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940
- November 21 – first issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets. First organ of feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
Works published
- Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Allahabad: The Indian Press [8]
- M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute ( Poetry in English ), Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works [8]
- Edmund Blunden, Masks of Time[9]
- Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years[9]
- Robert Bridges:
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet[9]
- C. Day Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems[9]
- T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
- Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose[9]
- Graham Greene, Babbling April[9]
- Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime[9]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw[9]
- Edwin Muir, First Poems[9]
- Edith Sitwell, Troy Park[9]
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier[9]
- J.R.R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess[9]
- W.B. Yeats, A Vision[9]
- Leonie Adams, Those Not Elect[10]
- Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams[10]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, Tiger Joy[10]
- Countee Cullen:
- On These I Stand, Harper & Row[11]
- Color[10]
- E. E. Cummings:
- Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock[10]
- Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), Collected Poems of H.D.
- John Gould Fletcher, Parables[10]
- Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden[10]
- Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion[10]
- William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives[10]
- Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth[10]
- Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, Paris[12]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt[10]
- Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides[10]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le cortege priapique, posthumously published (died 1918)[13]
- Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpétuel[14]
- Antonin Artaud:
- L'ombilic des limbes ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise[15]
- Le Pese-nerfs[15]
- André Breton, Clair de terre[14]
- Paul Claudel, Feuilles de saints
- Max Jacob, Les Penitants en maillots roses[14]
- Francis Jammes:
- Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions Spes[16]
- Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this year[16]
- Raymond Radiguet, Les Joues en feu, published posthumously (author died this year)[17]
- Pierre Reverdy, Grande Nature[14]
- Jules Supervielle, Gravitations[14]
- Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Jayashankar Prasad, Asu, Chayavadi poem on love and beauty[18]
- Maithilisharan Gupta, Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legend[18]
- Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, Achuta, verses on social and political problems[18]
- Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krsna Paksamu, very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature[18]
- Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Yenki Patalu[19] (another source spells the title as Enki patalu;[18] "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature;[19] a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava[18] "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri")[19]
- Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Jada Kucculu, lyrics
- Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Kinnerasani patalu (also rendered Kinnera Sani Patalu; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volume[18]
Other Indian languages
- Altaf Husain Hali, Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors[18]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)[20]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-language[18]
- Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems[18]
- Rabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
- Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, Assamese[18]
- Syed jalal, Mahakmah-yi Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, Hali Ki inshapardazi par, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali[18]
- D. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem[18]
- Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos[18]
Spanish language
Other languages
- Sophus Claussen, Heroica, including "Atomernes Opror" ("Revolt of the Atoms"), Denmark[23]
- Lionel Léveillé, Chante, rossignol, chante; French language;, Canada[24]
- Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; Italy[25]
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 14 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫. pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
- February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
- February 22 – Gerald Stern, American
- 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 13 – Inge Muller (died 1966) East German
- 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
- June 6 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author; appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982
- August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
- August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
- August 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet, philologist[26]
- September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet and the first poet to receive "The Neglected Masters Award", given by the The Poetry Foundation of America, which he received in 2004.[27]
- October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
- 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
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
- February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄, pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886), Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen)
- May 12 – Amy Lowell (born 1874), 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"
- November 27 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
- December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet
- date not known — Alfred Denis Godley
See also
Notes
- ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X
- ^ Neal T. Jones, editor, A Book of Days for the Literary Year, New York and London: Thames and Hudson (1984), unpaginated, ISBN 0500013322
- ^ Carole Gerson, "Arthur Stanley Bourinot Biography," Encyclopedia of Literature, 7466, JRank.org, Web, Apr. 20, 2011.
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ "Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ^ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
- ^ a b Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b c d e Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ a b Web page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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 Sarma, C.R., "Modern Indian Literature, An Anthology: Surveys and Poems", chapter in George, K. M., Modern Indian Literature, p 409, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1994, ISBN 8172013248, ISBN 9788172013240, retrieved June 2, 2009
- ^ 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 Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Rafael Méndez Dorich," Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011; also: Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 619
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0374125546
- ^ "Famous Azerbaijani poet Bahtiyar Vahabzade died", article, February 13, 2009, Trend News Agency website, retrieved same day
- ^ August 23, 2011 . "Poet Samuel Menashe has died - latimes.com". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/samuel-menashe.html. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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