1926 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

The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Works published

Canada

William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.^[1]
Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.^[2]
E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan.^[3]
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.^[1]
Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (QuÃ©bec: Dussault & Proulx).^[4]

India in English

Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),^[5]
The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom^[6]
Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism^[7]

United Kingdom

Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
Edmund Blunden, English Poems^[8]
W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song^[8]
Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Scots language poet:âµ
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle^[8]
- Penny Wheep^[8]
Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead^[8]
Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
Vita Sackville-West, The Land^[8]
Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems^[8]
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom^[6]
Humbert Wolfe:
- Humoresque^[8]
- News of the Devil^[8]
W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan^[8]

United States

Hart Crane, White Buildings^[9]
Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row^[10]
E. E. Cummings, is 5^[9]
John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam^[9]
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues^[11]
Vachel Lindsay:
- Going to the Stars^[9]
- The Candle in the Cabin^[9]
Amy Lowell, East Wind^[9]
Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem^[9]
John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems^[9]
Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope^[9]
Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems^[9]
Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon^[9]
Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems^[9]
Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Other in English

W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology^[12]
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France

Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism^[13]
Paul Ãluard, pen name of Paul-EugÃ¨ne Grindel:
- Dessous d'une vie^[13]
- Capitale de la douleur^[14] ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une Ã©trange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
Francis Jammes, Ma France poÃ©tique, Paris: Mercure de France; France^[15]
Pierre Jean Jouve:
- MystÃ©rieuses Noces^[13]
- Nouvelles Noces^[13]

Indian subcontinent

Including all of the British colonies that later become India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language^[16]
Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)^[16]
Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor^[16]
S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil^[16]

Spanish language

Peru

Enrique Bustamante y BalliviÃ¡n, Antipoemas^[17]
Alejandro Peralta, Ande^[18]
Enrique PeÃ±a Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra^[18]

Other in Spanish

Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); Spain^[19]
GermÃ¡n List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Oda a Salvador DalÃ ("Ode to Salvador DalÃ"), Spain
Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico

Other languages

Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
Tin UjeviÄ, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock

Births

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

January 5 â W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
February 4 â Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet^[20]
February 18 â A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
February 25 â Russell Atkins (died 2024), African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
March 3 â James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
March 22 â Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
April 18 â Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
May 4 â Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
May 21 â Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 26 â Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
June 3 â Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
June 5 â David Wagoner (died 2021), American poet and novelist
June 25 â Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
June 27 â Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
June 29 â James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
July 7 â Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
July 17 â Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
July 18 â Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
August 15 â Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
September 1 â James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
November 5 â John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
November 23 â Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
November 24 â Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
December 23 â Robert Bly (died 2021), American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
December 26 â Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

Deaths

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

January 10 â Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
January 20 â Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
April 7 â Ozaki HÅsai å°¾å´ æ¾å pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and TaishÅ period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
May 30 â Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
June 15 â Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
July 19 â Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
August 1 â Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
October 9 â Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
November 17 â George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
December 29 â Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia

Notes

[1]
Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
[2]
Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
[3]
"Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
[4]
"Frederick George Scott Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
[5]
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
[6]
Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
[7]
Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
[8]
Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
[9]
Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602â1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
[10]
Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
[11]
Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
[12]
Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
[13]
BrÃ©e, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
[14]
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
[15]
Web page titled "Poet Francis Jammes (1868-1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
[16]
Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911â1956", 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
[17]
Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/AntologÃa de la PoesÃa Americana ContemporÃ¡nea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 595
[18]
Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/AntologÃa de la PoesÃa Americana ContemporÃ¡nea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 635
[19]
Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
[20]
"[Japanese-American Internee Data File], 1942â1946". National Archives and Records Administration. 1988â89. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2013.