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January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London. American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet there.September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out.Ezra Pound travels to London to meet W. B. Yeats, whom he considers "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from that year until 1916, the two men winter in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet.January and March – Three poems of Hilda Doolittle appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March 1913 issue of the magazine also contained Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that this London-based movement has its first readership in the United States.The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication in June but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owns it; Rebecca West edits it at first, then Ezra Pound takes over as editor; it succeeds The Freewoman and will be succeeded by The Egoist.Founding of The Glebe a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues.Ezra Pound, having heard about The Glebe from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos, sends Kreymborg the manuscript of Des Imagistes in the summer and this famous first anthology of Imagism is published as the fifth issue of The Glebe.Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name "Generation of '98" this year, referring to the novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War (1898) and alluding to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat in that war. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.Wallace Stevens and his wife, Elsie, rent a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph Weinman, who makes a bust of Elsie, whose image later is used on the artist's 1916-1945 Mercury dime design.November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel prize in literature.December 15 – Ezra Pound (in London) writes to James Joyce (in Trieste) requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist.Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring his work to literary prominence.Tom MacInnes, The Rhymes of a RounderMarjorie Pickthall, The Drift of PinionsVarna Sheard, The Miracle and Other PoemsAlbert D. Watson, Love and the Universe, the Immortals and Other PoemsLaurence Binyon, AuguriesJoseph Campbell, IrishryW. H. Davies, FoliageWalter de la Mare, Peacock Pie: a book of rhymesJohn Drinkwater, Cromwell, and Other PoemsRadclyffe Hall, Songs of Three Counties, and Other PoemsD. H. Lawrence, Love Poems and OthersRichard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems, English poet living at this time in the United StatesJohn Masefield, DauberAlfred Noyes, Tales of the Mermaid TavernGeorge William Russell ("Æ"), Collected Poems (expanded editions published in 1919, 1926 and 1935)Siegfried Sassoon, The Daffodil MurdererDora Sigerson, Madge Linsey, and Other PoemsJ. C. Squire, The Three Hills, and Other PoemsRabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in EnglishKatharine Tynan, Irish Poems, Irish poet published in the United KingdomWilliam Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United KingdomW. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United KingdomWitter Bynner, TigerRobert Frost, A Boy's WillPaul Laurence Dunbar, Complete Poems, published posthumouslyJohn Gould Fletcher:Fire and WineFool's GoldThe Book of NatureThe Dominant CityVisions of the EveningJoyce Kilmer, "Trees" first appears in the August issue of Poetry magazine, it was later included in Trees and Other Poems 1914Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, English poet living at this time in the United StatesVachel Lindsay, General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other PoemsJohn Hall Wheelock, Love and LiberationWilliam Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom.Arthur Henry Adams, Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams, AustraliaRabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in EnglishKatharine Tynan, Irish Poems Irish poet published in the United KingdomW. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United KingdomE. W. Cole, editor, Backblock Ballads and other Verses, front cover illustration by David Low; including a "Glossary: for the use of the thoroughly genteel", four sections of "The Sentimental Bloke" and "The Austral-aise", both by C. J. Dennis, Australian anthologyGuillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913, edited by Tristan Tzara; FranceBlaise Cendrars, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France ("Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France"), a collaborative artists' book with near abstract pochoir print by Sonia Delaunay-TerkFrancis Jammes, Feuilles dans le ventPierre Jean Jouve, ParlerValéry Larbaud, Les Poésies de A. O. BarnaboothCharles Péguy, ÈveIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Chandra Kumar Agarwala, PratimaHiteshwar Bar Barua, Tirotav Atma Balidan Kavya, narrative poem about the sacrifice of Jaymoti Kunwari for the sake of her husband, Gadadhar Singha, ruler of Assam from 1681–1696Lakshminath Bezbarua, Kadam Kali, inspired by the ballads of AssamAdipudi Somanatharavu, translator, Gitanjali Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore translated into TeluguChittaranjan Das, Sagar Sangit, Bengali language, short verses, intensely religious, later translated into English by Sri AurobindoPramatha Chaudhuri, Sanet Pancasat, India, Bengali languageK. C. Kesava Pillai, Kesaviyam, India, Malayalam languageKilabhai Ghansyam, Meghdut, translation into Gujarati from the original Sanskrit of Meghudutam by KalidasaMohammad Abdul Majid, Caman-i-benazir, Urdu languageRaja Shyama Kumar Tagore, Jarmani Kavyam, Sanskrit language, a poem on GermanyUlloor S. Parameswara Iyer, Umakeralam, a mahakavya, a type of Indian epic poem, India, Malayalam languageVakil Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Om-nama (incorporating Ghazalyat-e-Shastri), Kashmiri languageDelmira Agustini, Los cálices vacíos, pórtico de Rubén Darío ("Empty chalices"), UruguayStefan George, Der Stern des Bundes ("The Star of the Order"), GermanyMarie Heiberg, Luule ("Poems"), EstoniaBlanche Lamontagne-Beauregard, Visions gaspésiennes, French language CanadaLionel Léveillé (writing under the pseudonym Englebert Gallèze), La claire fontaine, French language CanadaGeorg Trakl, Gedichte ("Poems"), Austrian published in GermanyNik Welter, Hochofen, Luxembourg published in GermanyDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Norman Rosten (died 1995), American poet, playwright and novelistJanuary 19 – Rex Ingamells (died 1955), AustralianFebruary 10 – Charles Henri Ford (died 2002), American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artistFebruary 26 – George Barker (died 1991), English poet and authorFebruary 28 – Virginia Hamilton Adair, (died 2004), American poetMarch 4 – Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子 (died 2005), poet who survives the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust and became known for her poems about her cityMarch 16 – Carmelo Arden Quin, (died 2010), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi”March 29 – R.S. Thomas (died 2000), Anglo- Welsh poetMay 6 – Douglas Stewart (died 1985), AustralianJune 24 – Vincent Ferrini (died 2007), American writer and poetJuly 30 – John Blight (died 1995), AustralianAugust 4 – Robert Hayden (died 1980), American poet, essayist, educator and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of CongressSeptember 16 – Dinesh Das (died 1985), Indian, Bengali-languageSeptember 25 – Seaforth Mackenzie (died 1955), AustralianNovember 10 – Karl Shapiro died 2000), AmericanDecember 7 (November 24 O.S.) – Kersti Merilaas, born Eugenia Moorberg (died 1986), EstonianDecember 8 – Delmore Schwartz (died 1966), American poet and short-story writerDecember 15 – Muriel Rukeyser (died 1980), American poet and political activistDecember 27 – Elizabeth Smart (died 1986), Canadian poet and novelistAlso:Appan M. A., Indian, Malayalam-languageJames Boughton, American poetFlexmore Hudson (died 1988), AustralianV. R. Kant (died 1990), Indian, Marathi-languageBhatt Damodar Kesavaji, pen name Sudhansu (died 1983), Indian, Gujarati-languageDevandas Kishinani, "Azad", Indian, Sindhi-languageAnanta Pattanayak, Indian, Oriya-language Bal Krisna Rav (died 1974), Indian, Hindi-language poet, editor and translator; edited the monthly ' 'Kadambini' 'Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, "Khadim", Indian, Sindhi-language poet and scholarUpendra Thakur, "Mohan" (died 1980), Indian, Oriya-language Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 17 – Joaquin Miller (born 1837), American "Poet of the Sierras"March 7 – Pauline Johnson, also known as "E. Payuline Johnson" and "Tekahionwake" (born 1861), Canadian known for poems and performances celebrating her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings"May 17 – Dwijendralal Ray (born 1863), Indian, Bengali-language poet, playwright and musician known primarily for patriotic plays and songs as well as Hindu devotional lyricsJune 2 – Alfred Austin (born 1835), English Poet Laureate of the United KingdomJuly 30 – Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō (born 1864), Meiji period tanka poet and novelistDecember 1 (November 18 O.S.) – Juhan Liiv (born 1864), EstonianDecember 5 – Ferdinand Dugué (born 1816), French poet and playwrightAlso:Bhuban Chandra Barua pen name "Umesh Chandra Barua", (birth year uncertain, possibly 1890), Indian, Assamese-language poetKunjikuttan Thampuran (born 1865), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Kodungalloor School of poetryAwards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore, partly for GitanjaliRobert Bridges becomes British Poet Laureate 
