To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 5 –
Cabaret Voltaire is opened by
German performance poet
Hugo Ball and his future wife
Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in
Zürich, Switzerland; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of the
Dada movement in art, poetry and literature.
Tristan Tzara,
Marcel Janco,
Richard Huelsenbeck,
Sophie Taeuber-Arp and
Jean Arp are among those who gather here to discuss art and put on performances expressing their disgust with
World War I and the interests they believe have inspired it.
I, that on my familiar hill
Saw with uncomprehending eyes
A hundred of thy sunsets spill
Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice,
Ere the sun swings his noonday sword
Must say good-bye to all of this; –
By all delights that I shall miss,
Help me to die, O Lord.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have
seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring
the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes it is
true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
December 9 –
Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"),
pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (born
1867),
JapaneseMeiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait will feature on the 1000 yen note
^Ene, Ileana (2001). "Tabel cronologic". In
Perpessicius (ed.). Studii eminesciene. Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. p. 14.
ISBN973-8031-34-6.
^Richardson, Joan (1986). Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923. New York: Beech Tree Books. p. 445.
^
abGarvin, John William, ed. (1916).
Canadian Poets. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
^
abcdefghijklmnopqrLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^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 603
^Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
^"Lord Tweedsmuir", obituary, Daily Telegraph, London, July 9, 2008, retrieved December 9, 2008
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 5 –
Cabaret Voltaire is opened by
German performance poet
Hugo Ball and his future wife
Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in
Zürich, Switzerland; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of the
Dada movement in art, poetry and literature.
Tristan Tzara,
Marcel Janco,
Richard Huelsenbeck,
Sophie Taeuber-Arp and
Jean Arp are among those who gather here to discuss art and put on performances expressing their disgust with
World War I and the interests they believe have inspired it.
I, that on my familiar hill
Saw with uncomprehending eyes
A hundred of thy sunsets spill
Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice,
Ere the sun swings his noonday sword
Must say good-bye to all of this; –
By all delights that I shall miss,
Help me to die, O Lord.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have
seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring
the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes it is
true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
December 9 –
Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"),
pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (born
1867),
JapaneseMeiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait will feature on the 1000 yen note
^Ene, Ileana (2001). "Tabel cronologic". In
Perpessicius (ed.). Studii eminesciene. Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. p. 14.
ISBN973-8031-34-6.
^Richardson, Joan (1986). Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923. New York: Beech Tree Books. p. 445.
^
abGarvin, John William, ed. (1916).
Canadian Poets. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
^
abcdefghijklmnopqrLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^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 603
^Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
^"Lord Tweedsmuir", obituary, Daily Telegraph, London, July 9, 2008, retrieved December 9, 2008