1922 in poetry
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April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- February 2
- Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it. The poem is Joyce's favorite lyric, and he has composed his own musical setting.
- In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at the Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) and completes his Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien).
- April – The Fugitive is established in Nashville, Tennessee, by John Crowe Ransom and other members of the Vanderbilt University English faculty who become known collectively as the Fugitives.
- June – Over a single night at his home in Shaftsbury, Vermont, Robert Frost completes the long poem "New Hampshire" and at sunrise writes "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".[1]
- July – Having issued a 2nd edition of aesthete,[2]sparking controversy over literatura de Sodoma.
- September 22 – Indian Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" ("The Advent of the Delightful Mother"), in support of the Indian independence movement, in the Puja issue of his new biweekly magazine Dhumketu, for which he is arrested by the police of the Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of sedition for much of the following year, undertaking a hunger strike and composing many poems while in prison. His poem "Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, "The Rebel", December 1921) is first collected this year in his first anthology, Agnibeena.
- October 15 – The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land.[3] This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial(dated November 1) and is first published complete with notes in book form by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.
- November – Robert Bridges publishes his essay on free verse: 'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum'.
- December 6 – W. B. Yeats becomes a nominated member of Seanad Éireann in the Irish Free State.
Works published in English
Canada
- William Wilfred Campbell, The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell, W.J. Sykes ed. (London). posthumously published[4]
- William Douw Lighthall, Old Measures (collected verse) (Montreal: A.T. Chapman).[5]
- Marjorie Pickthall, The Woodcarver’s Wife, and Later Poems]. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.[6]
Indian subcontinent in English
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
- Swami Ananda Acharya:
- Christina A. Albers, Ancient Tales of Hindustan[8]
- Pondicherry: Arya Office[9]
- N. M. Chatterjee, Parvati[8]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya:
- The Magic Tree ( Poetry in English ), )
- Perfume of Earth ( Poetry in English ), Madras: printed at Huxley Press[10]
- Joseph Furtado, Lays of Goa and Lyrics of Goan, a souvenir of the exposition of St. Francis Xavier; Bombay: Furtado and Sons[11]
- Puran Singh, At His Feet ( Poetry in English ), Gwalior,[11]
United Kingdom
- Scottish poet writing in the Scots language
- Edmund Blunden, The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War[3]
- Enid Blyton, Child Whispers
- Hilda Conkling, Shoes of the Wind
- A. E. Coppard, Hips and Haws
- John Drinkwater, Preludes 1921–1922[3]
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land[3]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Krindlesdyke[3]
- Thomas Hardy, Late Lyrics and Earlier, with Many Other Verses[3]
- A. E. Housman, Last Poems[3]
- Scottishpoet writing chiefly in dialect
- Hughes Mearns, "Antigonish" (written in 1899, published in 1922)
- Susan Miles, Annotations
- E. Nesbit, Many Voices
- Alfred Noyes, The Watchers of the Sky, Volume i of the "Torch-Bearers Trilogy", followed by The Book of the Earth (1925), The Last Voyage (1930), published as The Torch-Bearers (1937)[3]
- Marjorie Pickthall, The Wood Carver's Wife, including "Marching Men"
- Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, second series
- Isaac Rosenberg, Poems (posthumous)
- Edith Sitwell, Façade, the concert version ('an entertainment'), with music by William Walton, performed January 1922[3]
- Sacheverell Sitwell, The Hundred and One Harlequins, and Other Poems[3]
- J. C. Squire, Poems: Second Series
- Muriel Stuart, Poems
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
United States
- Conrad Aiken, Priapus and the Pool[12]
- John Peale Bishop, with Edmund Wilson, The Undertaker's Garland[12]
- John Dos Passos, A Pushcart at the Curb[12]
- James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry
- Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows
- Franklin Pierce Adams in his New York Worldcolumn; later a popular song
- Louise Pound, American Ballads and Songs[12]
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Under the Tree[12]
- Carl Sandburg, Slabs of the Sunburnt West[12]
- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies[12]
- Gertrude Stein, Geography and Plays
- John Hall Wheelock, The Black Panther[12]
- William Carlos Williams, Spring and All, including "The Red Wheelbarrow"
- Yvor Winters, The Magpie's Shadow[12]
Other
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
Works published in other languages
France
- Paul Claudel, Poèmes de guerre (1914-1916)
- Francis Jammes, Livres des quatrains, published each year from this year to 1925[13]
- Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, La Confession de Lemuel[14]
- Alphonse Métérié, Le Livre des soeurs[15]
- Pierre Reverdy, Cravates de chanvre[14]
- Philippe Soupault, Westwego[14]
- Paul Valéry, Charmes[16]
Germany
- Germany
- Kurt Schwitters:
- Anna Blume, Dichtungen, including "Germany
- Memoiren Anna Blumes in Bleie, a chronicle and parody of reactions to the original Anna Blume, Dichtungen of 1919
- Anna Blume, Dichtungen, including "
Spanish language
- Peru[17]
- Mexico
- Gerardo Diego, Manual de espumas ("Manual of Foam"), Spain[18]
- Chileanpoet published in the United States
- Peru[20]
- Pablo de Rokha: Los gemidos
Other languages
- Soviet Union
- Brazil
- Denmark[21]
- Mohammad Yamin, Tanah Air ("Motherland"), Indonesia, modern Malay language
Awards and honors
- Hawthornden Prize for poetry: Edmund Blunden
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (first award): Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected Poems (1921)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 22 – Vernon Scannell, born John Vernon Bain (died 2007), English poet, author and professional boxer
- February 25 – Leland Bardwell (died 2016), Indian-born Irish poet and novelist
- March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini (murdered 1975), Italian film director, novelist and Friulian language poet
- March 12 – Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation school of poetry
- April 4 – Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Irish poet and scholar
- April 16 – Kingsley Amis (died 1995), English novelist and poet
- June 9 – aviator and poet
- June 30
- Amulya Barua (died 1946; first published posthumously in 1964), Indian, Assamese-language
- Miron Białoszewski (died 1983), Polish poet and playwright
- July 6 – Carilda Oliver Labra (died 2018), Cuban
- July 17 – Movement
- July 26 – Chairil Anwar (died 1949), Indonesian poet of the "1945 Generation"
- August 9 – Philip Larkin (died 1985), English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
- August 26 – Elizabeth Brewster (died 2012), Canadian poet and academic
- September 12 – Jackson Mac Low (died 2004), American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
- November 13 – Gujarati-language poet, writer and editor
- November 24 – Greeknovelist, poet and translator
- November 25 – tanka poet with a turbulent life
- December 3 – Eli Mandel (died 1992), Canadian poet and literary academic
- Also –
- Australian
- Kurdish
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs, 59, American author, satirist, poet and the creator of Bangsian fantasy, a school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife
- February 2 – Zahida Khatun Sherwani, writing as Zay Khay Sheen (born 1894), Indian Urdu language woman poet
- February 3 – John Butler Yeats (born 1839), Irish painter and poet, father of W. B. Yeats
- April 19 - Marjorie Pickthall (born 1883), English-born Canadian writer.[22]
- May 13 – Scottishscholar, poet and author
- June 28 – Russian Futuristpoet and writer
- July 4 – Laura Rosamond White, 77 (born 1844), American poet, author, and editor
- July 8 – Mori Ōgai 森 鷗外 / 森 鴎外 (born 1862), Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet
- August 2 – M. A. Bayfield, 70 (born 1852), English classical scholar and writer on poetry
- September 2 – Henry Lawson, 55, Australian writer and poet
- September 10 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 82 (born 1840), British poet and writer
- November 27 – Alice Meynell, 75 (born 1847), née Thompson, English writer, editor, critic and suffragist, remembered mainly as a poet
- December 4 – poet and playwright
See also
Notes
- New Hampshire (1923).
- ^ "António Botto e o Ideal Esthetico em Portugal". Comtemporânea: Grande Revista Mensal (3). Lisbon: 121–126. July 1922.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ "William Douw Lighthall," RootsWeb, Ancestry.com, Web, Apr.29, 2011.
- ^ "Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011
- ^ a b Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. 2009-08-02.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
- ^ ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
- ^ 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
- ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Bibliography", Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010
- ^ 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 645
- ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). "Danish Poetry". The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications. p. 272.
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