1918 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen (see deaths).
- Poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.
- April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program.
- Basil Bunting spends part of the year in prison as a conscientious objector to World War I.
[edit] Works published
[edit] India in English
- The Bengali Writers of English Verse: A Record and an Appreciation, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink U Co., 1918.; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 119 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[1]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, The Feast of Youth, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House; India, Indian poetry in English[2]
- Baldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Theodore Douglas Dunn, editor, The Bengali Book of English Verse, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co.; anthology; Indian poetry in English[1]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Laurence Binyon, The New World: Poems[3]
- Rupert Brooke, The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke[3]
- Walter de la Mare, Motley, and Other Poems[3]
- Baldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Whin[3]
- Oliver St. John Gogarty, The Ship, and Other Poems* Walter de la Mare, Motley, and Other Poems[3]
- A. P. Herbert, The Bomber Gipsy, and Other Poems[3]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited and with notes by Robert Bridges, a friend; Hopkins had been unpublished during his lifetime (posthumous)[3]
- Aldous Huxley, The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems[3]
- D. H. Lawrence, New Poems[3]
- Morley Roberts, War Lyrics[3]
- Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems[3]
- Dora Sigerson, The Sad Years and Other Poems[3]
- Sacheverell Sitwell, The People's Palace[3]
- J. C. Squire, Poems, First Series[3]
- Edward Thomas, Last Poems[3]
- Arthur Waley, editor and translator, One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (anthology)[3]
- W. B. Yeats, Nine Poems,[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] United States
- Charles Reznikoff, Rhythms, his first book of poetry, a small volume, self-published
- Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers, Holt, Rinehart and Winston[4]
- Wallace Stevens, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" is first published (it will later be included in his first poetry book, Harmonium.[5]
[edit] Other in English
- C. J. Dennis, Australia:
- Digger Smith
- Backblock Ballads and Later Verses
- W. B. Yeats, Nine Poems,[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Jacob Anker-Paulsen, Denmark:
- Europa brænder ("Europe burner")
- Bade-amour: Erotiske billeder fra Kullen ("Bade-amour: Erotic Images from the Kullen")
- Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War, France
- Deva Kanta Barua, Sagar dekhisa, Indian, Assamese]]-language[6]
- Federico García Lorca, Impresiones y paisajes ("Impressions and Landscapes"), Spain
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (The Secrets of Selflessness) published in Persian, his second philosophical poetry book
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 1 – Muriel Spark (dued 2006), Scottish novelist and poet
- February 17 – William Bronk (died 1999), American poet
- April 15 – Louis Coxe, American poet
- April 23 – James Kirkup, English poet, translator and travel writer
- May 10 – Jane Mayhall (died 2009), American poet and novelist.[7]
- July 9 – John Heath-Stubbs (died 2006), English poet and translator
- August 23 – Vinda Karandikar, also known as C. V. Karandikar, Indian, Marathi-language poet, critic and translator[6]
- November 16 – Nicholas Moore (died 1986), English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later dropped out of the literary world
- November 19 – W. S. Graham (died 1986), Scotts poet often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic poets
- December 8 – Hans Børli (died 1989), Norwegian poet, novelist and writer
- December 30 – Al Purdy (died 2000), a popular Canadian poet
- Also:
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (died 1992), Indian, Kannada-language poet often said to be the pioneer of the "navya" (modernist) literary movement in Karnataka[6]
- Indra Dev Bhojvani, also known as "Indur", Indian, Sindhi-language[6]
- Ram Narain Singh Dardi, Indian, Punjabi-language poet who wrote in the Lahndi dialect[6]
- Maheswar Neog, Indian, Assamese-language scholar and poet[6]
- Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉, Japanese Showa and Heisei period novelist and poet (surname: Shimizu)
- Siddayya Puranika, Indian, Kannada-language poet[6]
- Amritdhari Singha, Indian, Maithili-language writer, philosopher and poet[6]
[edit] Deaths
Note two subsections, below. Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 10 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer
- June 26 – Peter Rosegger, 54, Austrian poet
- October 12 – Mary Hannay Foott (born 1846), Australian
- Also:
- A. R. Raja Raja Varma (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valia Koyittampuran[8]
- Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (born 1890), Indian, Marathi-language poet; died in a train accident[6]
- Gobinda Rath (born 1848), Indian, Oriya-language poet and satirist[6]
- Govind Vasudev Kanitkar (born 1854), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator[6]
- Dora Sigerson (born 1866), Irish poet
[edit] Killed in World War I
- January 28 – John McCrae, 35, Canadian poet, author of In Flanders Fields and lieutenant colonel serving as a field surgeon in the war, from pneumonia
- April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, 28, English war poet; killed in Fampoux in the Somme at dawn (there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat); first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926, his remains were identified and reinterred, at Bailleul Road East Cemetery[9][10], Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
- November 4 – Wilfred Owen (born 1893), English war poet is killed in action at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before World War I ends. (See Events)
- See also, Guillaume Apollinaire, below
[edit] Killed in the Great Flu Epidemic
- November 9 – Guillaume Apollinaire, 38, French language poet, writer, and art critic credited with coining the word surrealism. Two years after being wounded in World War I, and still vulnerable from his injury, he died from influenza during the Great Flu Epidemic.
- December 2 – Edmond Rostand, 50, French poet and dramatist, died from influenza during the Great Flu Epidemic
[edit] Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
[edit] See also
- List of years in poetry
- Dada
- Imaginism movement in Russian poetry
- Modernist poetry in English
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
- Poetry
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b c Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Buttel, Robert. The Making of Harmonium. 1967: Princeton University Press, p. 86. See also the LibriVox site for the complete public domain poems of Wallace Stevens.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Mayhall, Poet Who Gained Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 90 New York Times, March 19, 2009, retrieved March 22, 2009
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- ^ Bailleul Road east Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France at ww1cemeteries.com
- ^ CWGC :: Casualty Details at www.cwgc.org
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