1914 in poetry

• January 1 – The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce
• January 18 – A party held in honor of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Thomas Sturge Moore, Victor Plarr, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint and Frederic Manning; peacock is on the menu^[1][2]
• January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford
• March 4 (dated February) – Publication of the first issue of New Numbers, a quarterly collection of work by the Dymock poets in England edited by Lascelles Abercrombie with Wilfrid Gibson; the only other issues are published on May 15 (dated April), about the beginning of October (dated August) and on February 27, 1915 (dated December 1914)^[3]
• March – The Little Review founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance
• April 3 – American poet Robert Frost moves to the rural English location of Dymock where he joins with the Dymock poets^[3]
• April 20 – American poet Ezra Pound marries English artist Dorothy Shakespear at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London
• June 5 – Rupert Brooke returns to England at Plymouth after a year's tour of North America and Tahiti^[4] and on June 23 joins with the Dymock poets and helps with New Numbers^[3]
• June 24 – Edward Thomas makes the English railway journey which inspires his poem "Adlestrop" en route to meet Robert Frost, who encourages him to begin writing poetry^[5]
• July 2 – BLAST, a short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, is founded with the publication of the first of its total of two editions, edited by Wyndham Lewis
• August – The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace.
• September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium. At this time Tolkien is an Oxford undergraduate staying at Phoenix Farm, Gedling near Nottingham.^[6][7]
• September 22 – T. S. Eliot (at this time in England to study) meets Ezra Pound for the first time, in London
• December – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", enlists in the French Army to fight in World War I and becomes a French citizen^[8] after an August attempt at enlistment has been rejected
• December 3 – Edward Thomas, previously known as a writer of descriptive prose, writes his first mature poem, "Up in the Wind"^[3][4]
• December 23 – Rupert Brooke begins writing his sonnet "The Soldier" while on military training^[4]
• Jethmal Parsram and Lalchand Amardinomal Jagatiani, both aged around 29, found the Sindhi Sahita Society, a publishing house, in India^[9]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 14 – Dudley Randall (died 2000) African American poet and poetry publisher, founding Broadside Press in 1965
• January 17 – William Stafford (died 1993), American poet
• February 7 – David Ignatow (died 1997), American poet
• February 14 – Jan Nisar Akhtar (died 1976) Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms and lyricist for Bollywood
• February 22 – Henry Reed (died 1986), English poet
• February 24 – Weldon Kees (missing, presumed dead 1955), American poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, composer and artist
• February 25 – John Arlott (died 1991), English cricket commentator and poet
• March 31 – Octavio Paz (died 1998) Mexican writer, poet and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990
• May 3 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (died 2018), French poet, novelist, broadcaster and journalist
• May 6 – Randall Jarrell (died 1965), American poet and writer
• June 2 - George Hitchcock (died 2010), American poet, editor and publisher of Kayak magazine and books (1964–1984)
• June 26 – Laurie Lee (died 1997), English memoirist and poet
• September 1 – Jean Burden (died 2008), American poet, editor, essayist and pet-care writer
• September 5 – Nicanor Parra (died 2018), Chilean poet and physicist
• September 29 – D. J. Opperman (died 1985), South African Afrikaans poet
• July 30 – Tachihara Michizō 立原道造 (died 1939), Japanese poet and architect
• October 25 – John Berryman (born John Allyn Smith) (died 1972) American poet considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry
• October 27 – Dylan Thomas (died 1953), Welsh poet
• October 30 – James Laughlin (died 1997), American poet and literary book publisher, founder of New Directions Publishers
• November 1 – Yamazaki Hōdai 山崎方代 (died 1985), Japanese Shōwa period tanka poet (family name: Yamazaki)
• December 3 – Alaíde Foppa, (disappeared, presumed killed 1980), Spanish-born Latin American poet, scholar and activist^[21]
• Also:
  • Punkunnam Damodaran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and playwright^[9]
  • Devakanta Barua, Indian, Assamese-language poet^[9]
  • G. V. Krishna Rao (died 1979), Indian, Telugu-language poet and novelist^[9]
  • Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri (died 2004), also known as "Fazil Kashmiri", Indian, Kashmiri-language poet (surname: Fazil)^[9]
  • Kunjabihari Das, Indian, Orissa-language poet, folklorist, travel writer and memoirist^[9]
  • Laksmidhar Nayak, Indian, Oriya playwright, novelist, poet and labor leader^[9]
  • Narayan Bezbarua, Indian, Assamese-language poet, novelist and playwright^[9]
  • Narmada Prasad Khare, Indian, Hindi-language poet and editor^[9]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 13 – John Philip Bourke, 56 (born 1860), Australian poet
• March 17 – Hiraide ShÅ« 平出修, 35 (born 1878), Japanese late Meiji period novelist, poet and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
• March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, 83 (born 1830), French Occitan language writer and poet
• June 3 – Danske Dandridge, 59 (born 1854), American poet
• July 6 – Delmira Agustini, 27 (born 1886), Uruguayan poet, murdered
• July 23 – Charlotte Forten Grimké, 76 (born 1837), African-American anti-slavery activist, poet and teacher
• September 2 – K. C. Kesava Pillai, 46 (born 1868), Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet^[22]
• September 4 – Charles Péguy, 41 (born 1873), French poet and essayist, killed in action near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, in the early months of World War I
• September 8 – Hans Leybold, 22 (born 1892), German Expressionist poet, suicide while on active service in Belgium
• September 22 – Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, also known as Kerala Varma, 69 (born 1845 in poetry), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator who had an equal facility in writing in English and Sanskrit, automobile accident^[22]
• September 25 – Alfred Lichtenstein, 25 (born 1889), German Expressionist writer, killed in action in France
• October 8 – Adelaide Crapsey, 26 (born 1878), American poet, tuberculous meningitis
• October 10 – Ernst Stadler, 31 (born 1883), German poet, killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres
• November 3 – Georg Trakl, 27 (born 1887), Austrian poet, suicide
• December 8 – Madison Cawein, 49 (born 1865), American poet
• December 19 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin, 83 (born 1831), American poet and religious writer

• List of years in poetry
• Dada
• Dymock poets
• Imagism
• Modernist poetry in English
• Russian Futurism movement in Russian poetry
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
• Expressionism movement in German poetry
• Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
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