1911 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1911 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).
Events
Works published in English
William Butler Yeats , photographed this year by George Charles Beresford Rupert Brooke , Poems 1911 G. K. Chesterton , The Ballad of the White Horse [ 4] Elizabeth Daryush , Charitesse [ 4] E. V. Knox , The Brazen Lyre [ 4] Patrick MacGill , Songs of a Navvy [ 4] John Masefield , The Everlasting Mercy Harold Monro , Before Dawn (poems and impressions) Stephen Phillips , The New Inferno [ 4] Ezra Pound , Canzoni , London; American author published in the United Kingdom[ 5] Katharine Tynan , New Poems [ 4] Anna Wickham , Songs of John Oland
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Guillaume Apollinaire , pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée , Paris: Deplanche;[ 7] [ 2] Paul Claudel :
Léon-Paul Fargue , Tancrède [ 8] Francis Jammes , Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912 [ 9] Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz , also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments [ 2] Saint-John Perse , Éloges , Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France [ 10] May Ziadeh , writing as Isis Copia, Fleurs de rêve , Lebanese-Palestinian poet writing in FrenchIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Devendranath Sen , Indian , Bengali -language poet:
Gurajada Appa Rao , Lavanaraju Kala , Telugu -language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form[ 12] S. G. Narasimhachar , Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith , Indian , Kannada language[ 11] Tirupati Venkata Kavulu , Pandavodyoga Vijayam , Telugu -language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha [ 12]
Other languages
Constantine P. Cavafy , Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony , Greece José María Eguren , Simbólicas, , Peru [ 13] Georg Heym , Der Krieg and Der ewige Tag , Germany Vicente Huidobro , Ecos del alma , Chile Else Lasker-Schüler , Meine Wunder , Germany
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960 ), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984 ), Pakistani poet
February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992 ), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979 ), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
February 13 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz (died 1984 ), Indian , Urdu -language poet, teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcaster[ 11]
February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984 ), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
February 28 – Amir Hamzah (died 1946 ), Indonesian poet styled a national hero
March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976 ), Australian
April 7 – Hervé Bazin , full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966 ), French novelist and poet
May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003 ), American poet
May 13 – N. V. Krishna Warrier (died 1989 ), Indian , Malayalam -language poet, critic and scholar who introduces new types of long narrative poems and satires; editor of weekly Mathrubhumi ; director of Kerala Bhasa Institute[ 11]
May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970 ), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985 ), American poet and literary critic
June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001 ), New Zealand poet
June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999 ), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
June 28 – Clem Christesen (died 2003 ), Australian poet, founding editor of Meanjin
June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004 ), Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988 ), Indian , Gujarati -language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic[ 11]
July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968 ), writer, artist, illustrator and poet
August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985 ), American poet, literary critic and teacher
September 3 – Ernst Meister (died 1979 ), German [ 14]
September 9
October 11 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948 ), Indian , Malayalam -language poet and translator[ 15]
October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ('Migjeni') (died 1938 ), Albanian poet and writer
October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996 ), Scottish poet
October 28 – Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975 ), French
November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996 ), Greek
November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985 ), Indian , Malayalam -language poet
November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990 ), Australian
December 13 – Kenneth Patchen (died 1972 ) American poet and novelist
Also:
Robert Clark (died 2004 ), Indian-born Australian [ 16] Sreedhara Menon , Vailoppillil (died 1985 ), Indian , Malayalam-language poet[ 11] Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993 ), Indian , Hindi -language poet, essayist and artist[ 11] Tenneti Suri (died in 1959 ), Indian , Telugu -language poet, novelist, translator and journalist[ 11]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Carolina Coronado (born 1820 ), Spanish Romantic poet, member of Hermandad Lírica
February 22 – Frances Harper (born 1825 ), African-American abolitionist , poet and author
April 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835 ), English civil servant, literary historian and poet
May 29 – W. S. Gilbert (born 1836 ), English comic poet and librettist
July 16 – Amelia Denis de Icaza (born 1836), Panamanian romantic poet in Nicaragua
August 7 – Elizabeth Akers Allen (born 1832 ), American author, journalist and poet
December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson , writing as Graham R. Tomson (born 1860 ), English poet
Also:
See also
Notes
^ Cooper, Jeff. "Timeline of the Dymock Poets" . Friends of the Dymock Poets. Retrieved 2014-07-03 . ^ a b c Auster, Paul, ed. (1982). The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets ISBN 0-394-52197-8 ^ Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). Canadian Poets . Retrieved 2009-06-05 . ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ a b Ackroyd, Peter (1980). "Bibliography". Ezra Pound . London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. p. 121.^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Jr, Clifford A. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 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. ^ "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" Archived 2009-05-10 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009^ a b Hartley, Anthony, ed. (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4 : The Twentieth Century . Baltimore: Penguin Books. ^ "Poet Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)" , at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.^ "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-23.^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2 Sahitya Akademi , ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9 , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
^ a b Subbarayudu, G. K.; Vijayasree, C. (1996). "Chapter 11: Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" . In Natarajan, Nalini; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (eds.). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India . pp. 306–328. ISBN 9780313287787 . Retrieved 2009-01-04 . ^ Fitts, Dudley, ed. (1947). Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea . Norfolk, Conn.; London: New Directions; The Falcoln Press. p. 603. ^ Hofmann, Michael, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology . Macmillan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ^ Paniker, Ayyappa (1992). "Modern Malayalam Literature" . In George, K. M. (ed.). Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology . Sahitya Akademi. pp. 231–255. ISBN 9788172013240 . Retrieved 2009-01-10 . ^ "Robert Clark" . Friendly Street Poets . Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2007-05-15 .
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