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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Awards and honors 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Notes 7 See also

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

Works published

• 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, Paris^[2]
• J.R.R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye (France)
• W.B. Yeats, A Vision

Awards and honors

• Dial Award: E.E. Cummings
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice

Births

• February 8 — Francis Webb (died 1973) 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 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
• August 1 — Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
• 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
  • Heinz Piontek (died 2003), German^[3]
  • Gerald Stern, American poet

Deaths

• 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

Notes

1. ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X
2. ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
3. ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry