1928 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• January 16 –
  Mellstock") in Dorset.^[2] Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891 (Macmillan), in fact largely dictated by Hardy.^[3]
• 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").
• Futurist
  poets in the 1920s-1930s
• Objectivist poets
  group.
• The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.^[4]

Works published in English

Canada

• Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan.^[5]
• Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson).^[6]
• Arthur Stringer
  , A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

India, in English

• V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English^[7]
• Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler^[8]
• Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.^[9]

United Kingdom

• Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946^[10]
• 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^[10]
• W. H. Davies, Collected Poems^[10]
• 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.^[11]
  • Ariel poems series.^[12]
• H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798–1837: 1798–1837, Clarendon Press, anthology^[13]
• Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous)
• D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems^[10]
• John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse^[10]
• Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death^[10]
• Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey^[10]
• A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse^[10]
• Humbert Wolfe:
  • The Silver Cat, and Other Poems^[10]
• This Blind Rose^[10]
• 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)^[10]

United States

• W. H. Auden, Poems^[14]
• Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body^[14]
• E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree^[14]
• John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock^[14]
• Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
• Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill^[14]
• Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems^[14]
• William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth^[14]
• Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish^[14]
• Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem^[14]
• Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow^[14]
• Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun^[14]
• Ezra Pound:
  • Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London,^[15] American poet living in Europe
  • A Draft of the Cantos 17–27^[14]
• Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927^[14]
• Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America^[14]
• Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems,^[14] including "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
• Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press
• Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath^[14]
• 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

• 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)^[10]

Works published in other languages

France

• René Char, Les Cloches sur le coeur^[16]
• Léon-Paul Fargue:
  • Banalité^[17]
  • Vulturne^[17]
• Francis Jammes, Diane^[18]
• Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces^[19]
• Alphonse Métérié, Nocturnes^[16]
• Benjamin Péret, Le grand jeu^[17]
• Pierre Reverdy, La Balle au bond^[17]
• Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Indicateur des chemins de coeur^[17]

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",^[20] Shri Yesu Vijayam (also spelled "Sriyesuvijayam"),^[20] long poem about the life of Jesus, India, Malayalam language;^[21] a poem on a Christian theme; called the first major contribution to Indian literature by a Christian poet^[20]
• Nalini Bala Devi, Sandhiyar Sur, Assamese^[20]
• Kashmiri language, derived from Urdu tales^[20]
• Telugu^[20]
• Kashmiri^[20]

Spain

• Vicente Aleixandre, Ambito ("Milieu"), the author's first book of poems^[22]
• 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)^[22]

Other in Spanish

• Peru^[23]
• Mexico
• Peru^[24]

• Nérée Beauchemin, Patrie intime, French language, Canada^[25]
• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Hazon Ehad Ha-Legionot ("A Vision of One of the Legions"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
• Aaro Hellaakoski, Jääpeili, Finland
• Germany^[26]
• Federico García Lorca, Romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads"), Spain
• 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^[27]
• Takahashi Shinkichi, Takahashi Shinkichi shishu ("Poetical Works by Takahashi Shinkichi"), Tokyo: Nanso Shoin, Japan (Surname: Takahashi)^[28]
• 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 –
  Scottish poet and fiction writer in both English and Scottish Gaelic
• January 8 – Gaston Miron (died 1996), Canadian poet and author
• 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 (died 2015, American poet
• February 14 – Bruce Beaver (died 2004), Australian poet
• February 25 –
  Persian
  poet
• March 1 – Conrad Hilberry (died 2017), American poet
• March 4 –
  Angry Young Men
  " of the 1950s
• March 13 –
  Australian
  poet
• March 18 – Dave Etter (died 2015), American poet
• March 28 –
  Vayalar Rama Varma (died 1975), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter^[21]
• April 4 – Maya Angelou (died 2014), African-American poet
• April 7 – Gael Turnbull (died 2004), Scottish poet
• April 26 –
  Austrian poet^[29]
• May 4 – Thomas Kinsella (died 2021), 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^[30]
• June 24 –
  beat generation
• 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
  • U.S. Poet Laureate
• September 22
  • Irving Feldman, American poet and educator
  • Édouard Glissant (died 2011), French-Martiniquan poet and writer.^[31]
• October 17 – Rosemary Tonks (died 2014), English poet and novelist
• 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 –
  Norwegian
  novelist and poet
• December 10 –
  Slovak poet and academic^[32]
• 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 –
  Belgian
  poet
• March 24 – Charlotte Mew (born 1869), English poet, from suicide
• May 16 – Edmund Gosse (born 1849), English poet and critic
• July 20 –
  Greek
  poet
• August 16 –
  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