Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 2
Who Goes with Fergus? by
W. B. Yeats (first published in
1892) is the song that haunts
James Joyce's autobiographical character
Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it. The poem is Joyce's favorite lyric, and he has composed his own musical setting.
July – Having issued a 2nd edition of
António Botto's poetry collection Canções through his
Portuguese publishing house Olisipo,
Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singing
homosexual love as a true
aesthete,[2] sparking controversy over literatura de Sodoma.
September 22 –
IndianBengali poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" ("The Advent of the Delightful Mother"), in support of the
Indian independence movement, in the Puja issue of his new biweekly magazine Dhumketu, for which he is arrested by the police of the
Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of
sedition for much of the following year, undertaking a
hunger strike and composing many poems while in prison. His poem "
Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, "The Rebel", December 1921) is first collected this year in his first anthology, Agnibeena.
October 15 –
T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land.[3] This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1) and is first published complete with notes in book form by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.
The Magic Tree ( Poetry in English ),
Madras: Shama's Publishing House[10] (another source gives the publisher as: Madras: Theosophical Publishing House[8])
Perfume of Earth ( Poetry in English ),
Madras: printed at Huxley Press[10]
Joseph Furtado, Lays of Goa and Lyrics of Goan, a souvenir of the exposition of St. Francis Xavier; Bombay: Furtado and Sons[11]
Alfred Noyes, The Watchers of the Sky, Volume i of the "Torch-Bearers Trilogy", followed by The Book of the Earth (
1925), The Last Voyage (
1930), published as The Torch-Bearers (
1937)[3]
Anna Blume, Dichtungen, including "
An Anna Blume" ("To Anna Flower" also translated as "To Eve Blossom"); a second, revised edition with nine instead of the original 20 poems, and with the addition of translations of Anna Blume into English, French and Russian; published by Verlag Paul Steegemann, Hanover (first edition
1919, a second edition with the only change being eight more pages of advertising, published in 1920),
Germany
Memoiren Anna Blumes in Bleie, a chronicle and parody of reactions to the original Anna Blume, Dichtungen of
1919
Gabriela Mistral, Desolación ("Despair"), including "Decalogo del artista", New York : Instituto de las Españas;[19]Chilean poet published in the United States
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 –
John Kendrick Bangs, 59,
American author, satirist, poet and the creator of
Bangsian fantasy, a school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife
^
abcAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
^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 589
^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 645
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 2
Who Goes with Fergus? by
W. B. Yeats (first published in
1892) is the song that haunts
James Joyce's autobiographical character
Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it. The poem is Joyce's favorite lyric, and he has composed his own musical setting.
July – Having issued a 2nd edition of
António Botto's poetry collection Canções through his
Portuguese publishing house Olisipo,
Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singing
homosexual love as a true
aesthete,[2] sparking controversy over literatura de Sodoma.
September 22 –
IndianBengali poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" ("The Advent of the Delightful Mother"), in support of the
Indian independence movement, in the Puja issue of his new biweekly magazine Dhumketu, for which he is arrested by the police of the
Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of
sedition for much of the following year, undertaking a
hunger strike and composing many poems while in prison. His poem "
Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, "The Rebel", December 1921) is first collected this year in his first anthology, Agnibeena.
October 15 –
T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land.[3] This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1) and is first published complete with notes in book form by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.
The Magic Tree ( Poetry in English ),
Madras: Shama's Publishing House[10] (another source gives the publisher as: Madras: Theosophical Publishing House[8])
Perfume of Earth ( Poetry in English ),
Madras: printed at Huxley Press[10]
Joseph Furtado, Lays of Goa and Lyrics of Goan, a souvenir of the exposition of St. Francis Xavier; Bombay: Furtado and Sons[11]
Alfred Noyes, The Watchers of the Sky, Volume i of the "Torch-Bearers Trilogy", followed by The Book of the Earth (
1925), The Last Voyage (
1930), published as The Torch-Bearers (
1937)[3]
Anna Blume, Dichtungen, including "
An Anna Blume" ("To Anna Flower" also translated as "To Eve Blossom"); a second, revised edition with nine instead of the original 20 poems, and with the addition of translations of Anna Blume into English, French and Russian; published by Verlag Paul Steegemann, Hanover (first edition
1919, a second edition with the only change being eight more pages of advertising, published in 1920),
Germany
Memoiren Anna Blumes in Bleie, a chronicle and parody of reactions to the original Anna Blume, Dichtungen of
1919
Gabriela Mistral, Desolación ("Despair"), including "Decalogo del artista", New York : Instituto de las Españas;[19]Chilean poet published in the United States
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 –
John Kendrick Bangs, 59,
American author, satirist, poet and the creator of
Bangsian fantasy, a school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife
^
abcAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
^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 589
^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 645