1928 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others.
- November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More").
- Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s
- American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group.
- The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.[1]
Works published in English
- Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan.[2]
- Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson).[3]
- Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
- V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English[4]
- Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler[5]
- Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.[6]
- Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946[7]
- Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there[7]
- W. H. Davies, Collected Poems[7]
- T. S. Eliot:
- "Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.[8]
- A Song for Simeon printed in September by Faber & Gwyer as part of its Ariel poems series.[9]
- H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798-1837: 1798-1837, Clarndon Press, anthology[10]
- Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
- D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems[7]
- John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse[7]
- Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death[7]
- Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey[7]
- A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse[7]
- Humbert Wolfe:
- The Silver Cat, and Other Poems[7]
- This Blind Rose[7]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom):
- The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
- The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)[7]
- W. H. Auden, Poems[11]
- Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body[11]
- E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree[11]
- John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock[11]
- Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
- Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill[11]
- Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems[11]
- William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth[11]
- Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish[11]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem[11]
- Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow[11]
- Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun[11]
- Ezra Pound:
- Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London,[12] American poet living in Europe
- A Draft of the Cantos 17–27[11]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927[11]
- Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America[11]
- Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems,[11] including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
- Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
- Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath[11]
- Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project
Other in English
- John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
- Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South Africa
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish
- The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)[7]
Works published in other languages
- René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeur[13]
- Léon-Paul Fargue:
- Francis Jammes, Diane[15]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces[16]
- Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes[13]
- Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu[14]
- Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond[14]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur[14]
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Cherian Mappila, also known as "Cheriyan Mappila",[17] Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"),[17] long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language;[18] a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet[17]
- Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese[17]
- Peer Ghulam Mohammad Hanafi, Bagh-O Bahar, tales in verse in the Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales[17]
- Sri Sri, Prabhava, Telugu[17]
- Vakil Ghulam Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Pani Gulzar, Kashmiri[17]
Spanish language
- Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poems[19]
- Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads")
- Jorge Guillén, Cántico, first edition, with 75 poems in five sections (enlarged edition, with 125 poems, 1936)[19]
Other in Spanish
- Martín Adan, La case de cartón, a novel in verse, Peru[20]
- Nellie Campobello, Yo, Mexico
- José Varallanos, El hombre del Ande que asesinó su esperanza, Peru[21]
Other languages
- Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime; French language;, Canada[22]
- Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
- Stefan George, Das neue Reich ("The New Reich"); German[23]
- Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), second edition, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo (first published in 1925; third edition, 1931), Lanciano: Carabba; Italy[24]
- Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)[25]
- J. Slauerhoff, Eldorado, Dutch
Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson wins his third Pulitzer Prize for Poetry this decade, this time for Tristram
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith (died 1998), Scottish poet and fiction writer in both English and Scottish Gaelic
- January 10 – Philip Levine (died 2015), American poet, educator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- January 29 – Gene Frumkin (died 2007), American poet
- February 2 – Cynthia Macdonald, American poet
- February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004), Australian poet
- March 1 – Conrad Hilberry (died 2017), American poet
- March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English poet and writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s
- March 13 – R. F. Brissenden (Bob Brissenden, died 1991), Australian poet
- March 18 – Dave Etter (died 2015), American poet
- March 28 – Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter[18]
- April 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poet
- April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
- April 26 – Hertha Kräftner (died 1951), Austrian poet[26]
- May 4 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher
- May 11 – Luo Fu (or Lo Fu, pen name of Mo Luofu; died 2018), Chinese-language Taiwanese poet, writer and translator[27]
- June 27 – Peter Davison (died 2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor and publisher
- July 4 – Ted Joans (died 2003) African-American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter
- September 20
- Alberto de Lacerda (died 2007), Mozambique-born Portuguese poet
- Donald Hall, American poet and U.S. Poet Laureate
- September 22
- Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
- Édouard Glissant (died 2011), French-Martiniquan poet and writer.[28]
- October 28 – Yu Guangzhong (余光中) (died 2017), Chinese writer, poet, educator and critic
- November 9 – Anne Sexton (died 1974), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967
- December 3 – Karin Bang (died 2017), Norwegian novelist and poet
- December 10 – Milan Rufus (died 2009), Slovak poet and academic[29]
- December 15 – William Dickey (died 1994), American poet
- December 23 – Anthony Cronin (died 2016), Irish poet
- Also:
- Carol Bergé (died 2006), American poet
- Rasa Chughtai (died 2018), Indian-born Pakistani poet
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 11 – Thomas Hardy (born 1840), English novelist and poet
- February 5 – David McKee Wright (born 1869), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia
- February 19 – Ina Coolbrith (born 1841), American poet, writer and librarian
- March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen (born 1896), Belgian poet
- March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
- May 16 – Edmund Gosse (born 1849), English poet and critic
- July 20 – Kostas Karyotakis (born 1896), Greek poet
- August 16 – Antonín Sova (born 1864), Czech poet and librarian
- September 17 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (born 1885), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
- December 16 – Elinor Wylie (born 1885), American poet and novelist
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- New Objectivity in German literature and art
- Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry
Notes
- ^ In The Week-end Book – Oxford English Dictionary.
- ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ^ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, "The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo", in Naik, M. K., Perspectives in Indian Poetry in English, p 17, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications (1984), retrieved August 10, 2010
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition) pp. 39-40, 218, 219, 223 (Harcourt Brace & World 1969)
- ^ Eliot, T. S. "A Song for Simeon" in Ariel 16. (London: Faber and Faber, 1928); Gallup, Donald. T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969). "A11. A Song for Simeon" is listed as "A.11"
- ^ Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p353; also Google Books page
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c d e 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 0-394-52197-8
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ^ a b c d e f g Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 42, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 589
- ^ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 635
- ^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-12554-6
- ^ International League of Antiquarian Booksellers website, search results for this name, retrieved January 1, 2009
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu" Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ "Martinican poet Edouard Glissant dies at age 83". The Washington Post. 2011-02-03.
- ^ "Poet Milan Rufus Dies in Bratislava" Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, article, January 11, website of TASR (News Agency of the Slovak Republic), retrieved same day