1927 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Swami Ananda Acharya:
- Sara and other poems ( Poetry in English ), Roros, Norway: Odegards Trykkeri 106 pages[4]
- Arctic Swallows ( Poetry in English ) [5]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Collected Plays and Poems, 44 sonnets,[6] Madras: printed at Hogarth Press;[7]
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler ( Poetry in English ) ,[6]
- Peroze P. Meherjee, Poems in Prose ( Poetry in English ), London: Luzac and Co., posthumously published (died 1925)[8]
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology ( Poetry in English ) , published in the United Kingdom .[9]
- James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, published in Paris
- W.B. Yeats:
- October Blast, including "Among School Children", published in the United Kingdom
- Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction[10]
- G. K. Chesterton, Collected Poems[10]
- W. H. Davies, A Poet's Calendar[10]
- T. S. Eliot:
- "The Journey of the Magi"[10]
- "Salutation" (later to become part II of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in December in Saturday Review of Literature. It was also published in January, 1928 in Eliot's own Criterion magazine.
- Gwendoline Goodwin, editor, An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, London: John Murray; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[9]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1914–26[10]
- A.A. Milne, Now We are Six[10]
- Edith Sitwell, Rustic Elegies[10]
- Osbert Sitwell, England Reclaimed[10]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- W.B. Yeats:
- October Blast, including "Among School Children", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction[10]
- Sherwood Anderson, A New Testament[11]
- Countee Cullen, Copper Sun[12]
- Donald Davidson, The Tall Men[11]
- Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew[13]
- Robinson Jeffers, The Women at Point Sur[11]
- James Weldon Johnson:
- God's Trombones[11]
- God's Promises
- Amy Lowell, Ballads for Sale[11]
- John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, a book on the composition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (scholarship)
- Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel,[11] presented fictionally as a collection of vers libre poems typed by a former-poet-turned-cockroach who jumps on the keys of a typewriter
- Charles Reznikoff, Five Groups of Verse self-published in 375 copies and containing material from his earlier "Uriel Accosta: A Play" and A Fourth Group of Verse (1921)
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Julie; ou, La Rose, posthumously published (died 1918)[14]
- Jean Cocteau, Opéra, Oeuvres poétiques[15]
- Robert Desnos, La liberté ou l'amour! ("Liberty or Love!")
- Henri Michaux,Qui je fus("Who I Was"), Paris: N.R.D.[16]
- Charles Vildrac, Prolongements, France
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:
Other Indian languages
- Rafael Alberti, El alba del alheli (1925–1926) ("The Dawn of the Wallflower")[17]
- Luis Cernuda, Perfil del aire ("Profile of Air", which later appeared as Primeras poesías ["First Poems"] in the author's complete works, La realidad y el deseo ["Reality and Desire"])[17]
- Federico García Lorca, Canciones ("Songs")
- Miguel de Unamuno, Romancero del destierro ("Ballads of Exile")[17]
Other languages
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Klemtende hjærte. Udvalgte digte fra ti aar og nye, Denmark
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet, translator, academic, and artist
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
- April 8 – Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- June 7 – Martin Carter (died 1997), Guyanese poet
- June 26 – Robert Kroetsch (died 2011), Canadian poet and novelist
- July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet, former chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- August 7 – Larry Eigner (died 1996), American poet early in his career was associated with the Black Mountain poets; later was recognized as precursor to other poetic movements, ie., Language poetry
- September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- October 16 – Günter Grass, German author and poet
- October 19 – Edwin Brock (died 1997), English poet
- October 20 – Oskar Pastior (died 2006), Romanian-born German poet and translator
- December 3 – James Wright, (died 1980), American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
- ^ "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011.
- ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ^ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ^ Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02.
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 9780345423276, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Michaux, Henri, edited by David Ball, Henri Michaux: Anthology 1927-1984 Selected, Translated and Presented by David Ball, Introduction by David Ball, p xxii, Footnote 4, University of California Press, 1997, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
- ^ a b c 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
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