1912 in poetry
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The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine—may the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! To this end the editors hope to keep free from entangling alliances with any single class or school. They desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written. Nor will the magazine promise to limit its editorial comments to one set of opinions. |
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[edit] Imagist poets
- 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:[1]
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In the spring or early summer of 1912, 'H.D.' [Hilda Doolittle], Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following:
- 1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective.
- 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
- 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.
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- 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 life
- October — Pound submits to Poetry: A Magazine of Verse three poems each by Doolittle and Aldington under the label Imagiste. Aldington's poems were printed in the November issue, and H.D.'s appeared in the January 1913 issue. The March 1913 issue of Poetry also contained Pound's A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history meant that Imagism, although London-based, had its first readership in the United States.
[edit] Works published in English
- Robert Bridges, Poetical Works Excluding the Eight Dramas[8]
- Walter de la Mare, The Listeners, and Other Poems[8]
- John Drinkwater, Poems of Love and Earth[8]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Fires[8]
- T. E. Hulme, The Complete Poetical Works, five poems[8]
- Rudyard Kipling, Collected Verse[8]
- Edward Marsh (ed.), Georgian Poetry 1911-12, the first Georgian Poetry anthology
- Claude 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 Kingdom[9]
- Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain[10]
- Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Ripostes, London[11]
- Translator, The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, London[11]
- Isaac Rosenberg, Night and Day[8]
- Dora Sigerson, New Poems[8]
- James Stephens, The Hill of Vision[8]
- Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain
- Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems
- Robinson Jeffers, Flagons and Apples[12]
- William Ellery Leonard, The Vaunt of Man[12]
- Vachel Lindsay, Rhymes to be Traded for Bread[12]
- Amy Lowell, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass[12]
- Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
- John Hall Wheelock, The Beloved Adventure[12]
- Charles Williams, The Silver Stair[8]
- Elinor Wylie, Incidental Numbers[12]
[edit] Other in English
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Paul Claudel, L'Annonce faite à Marie[13]
- Jean Cocteau, La Danse de Sophocle[14]
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Poemes, suivi de Pour la musique[15]
- Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from (1911 to this year)[16]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Présences[14]
- Max Jacob, Les Oeuvres Burlesques et Mystiques de Frère Matorel[15]
- Charles Péguy, Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu[13]
- Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Eloges
- Victor Segalen, Stèles, an edition of 81 copies (see also Stèles, Peintures, Équipée 1955, and Stelae 1969, a translation into English by Nathaniel Tarn)[15]
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:
[edit] Other languages of the Indian subcontinent
- Akshay Kumar Baral, Esa, Indian, Bengali-language
- Maithilisharan 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 rising[18]
- Sumatiben Mehta, Hridayjharnan, a poem conveying her anguish during an extended illness (posthumous), written in the Gujarati language[19]
- Anna Akhmatova, Evening, her first collection, Soviet Union
- Gottfried Benn, Morgue und andere Gedichte ("Morgue and other Poems") (Berlin), Germany
- Takuboku Ishikawa, Kanashiki gangu ("Sad Toys") published posthumously, Japan
- Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla ("Fields of Castile"), first edition (revised edition 1917); Spain[20]
- Patrick Pearse, Mise Éire ("I am Ireland"), Ireland
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Nikiforos Vrettakos (died 1991), Greek
- February 11 – Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (died 1991)
- February 27 – Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (died 1990)
- May 3 – May Sarton, American (died 1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
- May 8 – George Woodcock (died 1995), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
- June 12 – Roland Robinson (died 1992), Australian[21]
- June 13 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (died 1943), Canadian poet, considered "Quebec's first truly modern poet"
- June 16 – John Enoch Powell, Poet and MP from 1950 to 1987.
- July 14 – Northrop Frye, Canadian critic
- September 10 – William Everson (also known as "Brother Antoninus") (died 1994), American poet, author, literary critic, and small-press printer
- September 12 – J. F. Hendry, Scots poet who lived in Canada later in life
- September 13 – F. T. Prince (died 2003) South African–British poet and academic
- September 16 – John Jefferson Bray (died 1995), Australian
- December 9 – Denis Glover (died 1980) New Zealand poet and publisher
- December 11 – Micky Burn (died 2010), English writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poet[22]
- Also:
- Kenneth Allott (died 1973) Anglo-Irish poet and academic
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz (died 1984), Indian, Urdu-language poet, teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcaster[23]
- Ali Jafri, Indian, Urdu-language poet[23]
- P. R. Kaikini, Indian, writing Indian poetry in English[23]
- Nityananda Mahapatra, Indian, Oriya-language novelist, short-story writer, poet and politician[23]
- Miraji (died 1949), Indian, Urdu-language[23]
- Prahlad Parekh (died 1962),, Indian, Gujarati-language [23]
- Bharati Sarabhai, Indian English- and Gujarati-language playwright, including verse drama[23]
- Konduru Viraraghavacaryulu, Indian, Tegulu-language poet, novelist and scholar[23]
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
[edit] See also
- ^ Pound, Ezra, "A Retrospect" (Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1954)
- ^ Mary Jane Edwards, "Drummond, William Henry," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Web, Apr. 15, 2011.
- ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
- ^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867–1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Brenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p 62, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521587129, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ a b c d Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b c d e f Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ a b Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ^ a b Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009
- ^ a b Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree' ', pp 306–328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 2008
- ^ Natarajan, Nalini, and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut, United States: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0313287783, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved via Google Books on June 17, 2009
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 11, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ "Robinson, Roland (1912–1992)". Australia Dancing. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. http://www.australiadancing.org/apps/ad?action=ViewSubject&id=101&resourceType=Ephemera. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
- ^ Davison, Phil, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/captain-micky-burn-soldier-who-led-the-commandos-in-the-operation-chariot-raid-on-saint-nazaire-in-1942-2072090.html "Captain Micky Burn: Soldier who led the commandos in the 'Operation Chariot' raid on Saint Nazaire in 1942", obituary, The Independent, September 7, 2010, retrieved October 20, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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
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