Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publicationThe Dial ceases publicationArthur Bourinot, 'Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children.Frederick George Scott, New Poems.Raul De Loyola Furtado (Poetry in English), The Desperrado, London: Chapman and Hall; Indian poet writing in English and published in the United KingdomNagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry (Poetry in English), Allahabad: Indian Press, (second edition Bombay: Hind Kitabs, 1951), poetry anthology Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:Edmund Blunden, Near and FarRobert Bridges, The Testament of BeautyW. H. Davies, Ambition, and Other PoemsCecil Day-Lewis, Transitional PoemT. S. Eliot:Animula"Som de l'escalina" (later to become part III of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Autumn, 1929 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.Aldous Huxley, Arabia Infelix, and Other PoemsD. H. Lawrence, PansiesLouis MacNeice, Blind FireworksCharlotte Mew, The Rambling SailorWilliam Plomer, The Family TreeI. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary JudgementT. H. White, Loved Helen, and Other PoemsW. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:A Packet for Ezra PoundThe Winding StairLéonie Adams, High FalconConrad Aiken, Selected PoemsDjuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A BookLouise Bogan, Dark SummerWitter Bynner, Indian EarthJames Branch Cabell, Sonnets from AntanMalcolm Cowley, Blue JuniataCountee Cullen, The Black ChristEmily Dickinson, Further Poems, 150 recently discovered poems; Little, Brown, & CompanyHilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", Red Roses for BronzeKenneth Fearing, Angel ArmsRobinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other PoemsVachel Lindsay, Every Soul is a CircusEdgar Lee Masters, The Fate of the JuryLola Ridge, FireheadEdwin Arlington Robinson, Cavender's HouseE. B. White, The Lady is ColdEdmund Wilson, Poets, FarewellElinor Wylie, Angels and Earthly CreaturesUrsula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New ZealandVoices from Summerland, the first major anthology of Jamaican poetryW. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:A Packet for Ezra PoundThe Winding StairLouis Aragon, La Grande GaiteJacques Audiberti, L'Empire et la Trappe, the author's first book of poems; winner of the Prix MallarmePaul Éluard, L'Amour la poésieOscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, PoèmesAlphonse Métérié, ''Petit MarocHenri Michaux:Ecuador, poetry and proseMes Proprietés ("My Properties"), may be considered prose poemsPierre Reverdy, Sources du ventIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Jagannathdas Ratnakar, Uddhava Satak, written in Brajabhasa in the Bhramaragit tradition of Krishna Bhakti verse; HindiNirala Suryakant Tripathi, Parimal, Hindi poems influenced by Chayavadi sensibility; includes "Juhi Ki Kali", a well-known poem in Hindi; also includes "Vidhava" and "Badal Rag"Ram Kumar Varma, Cittaur Ki Cita, Hindi-language historical poem on the glory of the Rajputs written in the Chayavadi styleRam Naresh Tripathi, Svapna, Hindi epic poem on women and patriotismRamachandra Shukla, Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas, one of the earliest and most influential histories of Hindi literature; scholarshipUday Shankar Bhatta, Takasila, Hindi epic on the ancient glory of the city of TakshasilaNarayana Panikkar, Kerala Bhasa Sahitya Caritram, literary history in seven volumes, published from this year to 1951; won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature in 1955; scholarshipP. K. Narayana Pillai, Tucattezhuttaccan, a study, in Malayalam of 16th-century poet Ezhuttacchan; criticismUllur Paramesvara Iyer:Pingala, a well known khandakavyaKarnabhusanam, on the episode in the Mahabharata in which Karna gives away his protective kavaca and kundals to Indra, disguised as a brahmanHafiz Jalandhari, Shahnamah-yi Islam, a history of the Islamic Empire in four volumes of verse, published from this year to 1947Mohammad Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara ("The Caravan Bell")Dr. Rafiq Hussain and Amar Nath Jha, Urdu ghazal ki nashv o numa, treatise on the evolution of the Urdu ghazalDevulappali Krishna Shastri, written in Telugu:Pravasamu, very influential in Telugu poetry of its timeUrvasi, very influential in Telugu poetry of its timeDharmeshvari Devi Baruani, Phular Sarai, AssameseL. Kamal Singh, Lei pareng ("Garland"), Manipuri lyrics, many focusing on love for nature and solitude; academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das has called the work a landmark in Manipuri literature with which "modern Manipuri poetry began"Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Alvarkal Kalanilai, literary history of the 12 Alvars, saint poets of the Vaishnava sect, with an evaluation of their works as influenced by various factors; a Tamil-language workJasimuddin, Naksikathar Math, narrative poem in Bengali about a tragic love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl; a companion volume to Rakhali 1930 and Dhankhet 1932R. Narasimhachar, Karnataka Kavi Carite, Volume 3 of a three-volume history of Kannada literature, and written in that language (see also Volume 1, 1907); scholarshipRabinidrath Thakur, Mahuya, primarily live poems in BengaliU. V. Swaminatha Ayyar, Cankattamilum Pirkalattamilum, essays summarizing 10 lectures delivered at Madras University in 1927 on Sangam literature and post-Sangam literatureVakil Ahmed Shah Qureshi, Qissa Sulaiman O Bilqis, sufistic narrative poem in KashmiriRafael Alberti:Cal y canto ("Lime and Song")Sobre los ángeles ("Over the Angels")Pedro Salinas, Seguro Azar (1924–1928) ("Certain Chance")José Moreno Villa, Jacinta la pelirroja ("Jacinta the Redhead")José María Eguren, Poesías, PeruCarlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas, PeruAlfred Desrochers, A l'ombre d'Orford, philosophical verse and poetry influenced by le terroir movement, French language, CanadaPeider Lansel, Il vegl chalamêr, Romansh language, SwitzerlandRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to military academy cadet Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) from 1902 to 1908, published by Kappus and Insel Verlag this year; GermanyAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington RobinsonPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's BodyDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Heiner Müller (died 1995), GermanJanuary 11 – Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academicJanuary 12 – Turner Cassity, AmericanFebruary 16 – Peter Porter (died 2010), Australian-born British poet. Part of what is referred to in Britain as The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.February 28 – John Montague (died 2016), American-born IrishMarch 6 – Günter Kunert, GermanApril 2 – Edward Dorn (died 1999), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poetsMay 16 – Adrienne Rich, American poetJune 2 – Robert Dana (died 2010), American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004-2008June 11 – George Garrett (died 2008), American poet and novelistJuly 15 – Rhoda Bulter (died 1994), Scottish poetJuly 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe, born Ursula Askham Fanthorpe (died 2009), EnglishAugust 5 – Al Alvarez, English poet, writer and critic who also publishes under the name Al AlvarezAugust 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literatureAugust 29 – Thom Gunn (died 2004), English-born poetSeptember 26 – Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educatorOctober 13 – Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translatorOctober 21 – Donald Finkel (died 2008), American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance UrdangOctober 23 – Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman") (died 2006), Bengali poet, columnist and journalistOctober 25 – Peter Rühmkorf (died 2008), German writer and poetOctober 26 – Dane Zajc (died 2005), Slovenian poetOctober 28 – John Hollander, American poet and literary criticNovember 11 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, GermanDecember 9 – Don Maclennan (died 2009), English-born South African poet, critic and academicBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 8 – Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45 (born 1883), British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiersMarch 28 – Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"June 8 – Bliss Carman, 68 (born 1861), Canadian poetJuly 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist 