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March - The Poetry Review, edited by Harold Monro, supersedes the Poetical Gazette as the journal of the Poetry Society, just renamed from the Poetry Recital Society.April 14–15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic: The ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. This leads to a flood of poems, including Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain".Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore and others. Yeats writes the preface to the English translation of Tagore's GitanjaliHarriet Munroe founds Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); this year she describes its policy this way:Three poets meet and work out the principles of Imagist poetry. The most prominent of the poets, Ezra Pound, later writes about the formulation in 1954:At a meeting with Doolittle and Aldington in the British Museum tea room, Pound appends the signature H.D. Imagiste to Doolittle's poetry, creating a label that was to stick to the poet for most of her writing lifeOctober — Pound submits to Poetry: A Magazine of Verse three poems each by Doolittle and Aldington under the label Imagiste. Aldington's poems are printed in the November issue, and H.D.'s appear in the January 1913 issue. The March 1913 issue of Poetry also contains Pound's A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that Imagism, although London-based, has its first readership in the United States.William Henry Drummond, The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. posthumous.Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Flint and Feather, with an introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton, an English criticSeranus, In Northern Skies and Other PoemsRobert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, CanadaSarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time, London; Indian poet writing in English, published in the United KingdomBharati Sarabhai, The Well of the People, Calcutta: Visva-BharatiRabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Indian poet writing in English, published in the United KingdomRobert Bridges, Poetical Works Excluding the Eight DramasWalter de la Mare, The Listeners, and Other PoemsJohn Drinkwater, Poems of Love and EarthWilfrid Gibson, FiresT. E. Hulme, The Complete Poetical Works, five poemsRudyard Kipling, Collected VerseEdward Marsh (ed.), Georgian Poetry 1911-12, the first Georgian Poetry anthologyClaude McKay, Constab Ballads; along with Songs of Jamaica (published in Jamaica), constitute the first published collections of English-language, Creole dialect poetry; Jamaican poet published in the United KingdomSarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, Indian poet writing in English, published in BritainEzra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:Ripostes, LondonTranslator, The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, LondonIsaac Rosenberg, Night and DayDora Sigerson, New PoemsJames Stephens, The Hill of VisionRabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Indian poet writing in English, published in BritainFlorence Earle Coates (1850–1927), The Unconquered Air, and Other PoemsRobinson Jeffers, Flagons and ApplesWilliam Ellery Leonard, The Vaunt of ManVachel Lindsay, Rhymes to be Traded for BreadAmy Lowell, A Dome of Many-Coloured GlassEdna St. Vincent Millay, "Renascence"Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:Ripostes, LondonTranslator, The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, LondonJohn Hall Wheelock, The Beloved AdventureCharles Williams, The Silver StairElinor Wylie, Incidental NumbersAdam Lindsay Gordon, The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, AustraliaClaude McKay of Jamaica, publishes the first collections of English-language, Creole dialect poetry:Songs of Jamaica, Kingston, JamaicaConstab Ballads, London, EnglandPaul Claudel, L'Annonce faite à MarieJean Cocteau, La Danse de SophocleLéon-Paul Fargue, Poemes, suivi de Pour la musiqueFrancis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from (1911 to this year)Pierre Jean Jouve, PrésencesMax Jacob, Les Oeuvres Burlesques et Mystiques de Frère MatorelRené Maran, La Vie Intérieure, Guyanese writerCharles Péguy, Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertuSaint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, ElogesVictor Segalen, Stèles, an edition of 81 copies (see also Stèles, Peintures, Équipée 1955, and Stelae 1969, a translation into English by Nathaniel Tarn)Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Gurajada Appa Rao (surname: Gurajada), narrative poems written in a four-line, stanzaic form, new for Telugu poetry:KanyakaPurnimaAkshay Kumar Baral, Esa, Indian, Bengali-languageMaithilisharan Gupta, "Bharat Bharati" ("The Voice of India"), Hindi poem glorifying the nation's past, deploring its contemporary social and political condition and calling for good relations between Hindus and Muslims at a time when animosity between the two groups was risingSumatiben Mehta, Hridayjharnan, a poem conveying her anguish during an extended illness (posthumous), written in the Gujarati languageAnna Akhmatova, Vecher ("Evening"), her first collection, RussiaGottfried Benn, Morgue und andere Gedichte ("Morgue and other Poems") (Berlin), GermanyDavid Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (Пощёчина общественному вкусу), Russian Futurist anthologyTakuboku Ishikawa, Kanashiki gangu ("Sad Toys") published posthumously, JapanAntonio Machado, Campos de Castilla ("Fields of Castile"), first edition (revised edition 1917); SpainPatrick Pearse, Mise Éire ("I am Ireland"), IrelandDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Nikiforos Vrettakos (died 1991), GreekFebruary 11 – Roy Fuller (died 1991), English poet and novelistFebruary 27 – Lawrence Durrell (died 1990), Indian-born English novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writerMay 3 – May Sarton (died 1995), American poet, novelist and memoiristMay 8 – George Woodcock (died 1995), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchistMay 25 – Meeraji (died 1949), Indian, Urdu-languageJune 12 – Roland Robinson (died 1992), AustralianJune 13 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (died 1943), Canadian poet, considered "Quebec's first truly modern poet"June 16 – Enoch Powell (died 1998), English MP from 1950 to 1987, classical scholar and poetJune 29 – John Gawsworth, born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (died 1970), English poet and anthologistJuly 14 – Northrop Frye (died 1991), Canadian criticAugust 29 – Kenneth Allott (died 1973) Welsh-born Anglo-Irish poet and academicSeptember 10 – William Everson, also known as "Brother Antoninus" (died 1994), American poet, author, literary critic and small-press printerSeptember 12 – J. F. Hendry (died 1986), Scottish poet later living in CanadaSeptember 13 – F. T. Prince (died 2003) South African–British poet and academicSeptember 16 – John Jefferson Bray (died 1995), AustralianNovember 12 – Donagh MacDonagh (died 1968), Irish poet, playwright and judgeDecember 9 – Denis Glover (died 1980), New Zealand poet and publisherDecember 11 – Micky Burn (died 2010), English writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poetAlso:Ali Jafri, Indian, Urdu-language poetP. R. Kaikini, Indian, writing Indian poetry in EnglishNityananda Mahapatra, Indian, Oriya-language novelist, short-story writer, poet and politicianPrahlad Parekh (died 1962), Indian, Gujarati-language Bharati Sarabhai, Indian English- and Gujarati-language playwright, including verse dramaKonduru Viraraghavacaryulu, Indian, Tegulu-language poet, novelist and scholarBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 16 – Georg Heym (born 1887), German poetApril 13 – Takuboku Ishikawa 石川 啄木 (born 1886), Japanese poet (surname: Ishikawa)November 28 – Lorentzos Mavilis (born 1860), GreekDecember 18 – Will Carleton (born 1845), American poet 