1922 in poetry - Citizendia

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1 Events
2 Works published
3 Awards and honors
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 See also

Events

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established
The Criterion appears
William Butler Yeats' Who goes with Fergus (first published in 1892 is the song James Joyce has his character Stephen Daedalus sing to his mother as she lies dying in the novel Ulysses, published this year (the poem was Joyce's favorite lyric)
November: Robert Bridges publishes his essay on free verse: 'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum'. This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order Events Two paintings by E E Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists Events Ezra Pound moves from London to Paris where he moved among a circle of artists musicians and writers who were revolutionising modern art Events Jorge Luis Borges, writer and poet returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe Events In Paris Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career Events October 10 &mdash Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. Events T S Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer leaves Lloyds bank The year 1919 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1920 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1921 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1922 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1925 in literature involved some significant events and new books Decades and years Decades and years Decades and years A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the " Mauve Decade" because William Henry Perkin 's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that The 1910s decade ran from January 1 1910 through December 31 1919 The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author Events William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, ( 23 October 1844 &ndash 21 April 1930) was an Free verse is a term describing various styles of Poetry that are written without using strict meter or Rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry ' Humdrum and Harum-Scarum A Lecture on Free Verse' is an essay by the poet Robert Bridges, first published in November 1922 in both the North American Review

Works published

Epigraph & dedication, T. S. Eliot's Waste Land

1922 portrait, Anna Akhmatova

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Rainer Marie Rilke completes both the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus

Anna Akhmatova, Anno Domini MCMXXI
Mário de Andrade, Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City)
Hilda Conkling, Shoes of the Wind
Thomas Hardy, Late Lyrics and Earlier
James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry
Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows
Hughes Mearns, "Antigonish" (written in 1899, published in 1922)
Marjorie Pickthall, The Wood Carver's Wife, including "Marching Men"
Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, second series
Carl Sandburg, Slabs of the Sunburnt West
César Vallejo, Trilce
Sir William Walton's composition, Façade, a musical setting of 21 poems by Edith Sitwell
William Carlos Williams:
- Spring and All
  - "The Red Wheelbarrow"
W.B. Yeats, Later Poems

Awards and honors

Edwin Arlington Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems (1921)
Hawthornden Prize for poetry: Edmund Blunden

Births

March 12 — Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation school of poetry
April 16 — Kingsley Amis, English writer and poet
July 17 — Donald Davie, English poet and critic who belonged to the Movement
August 9 — Philip Larkin (died 1985), English poet, novelist and jazz critic
August 26 — Elizabeth Brewster, Canadian poet and academic
September 12 — Jackson Mac Low, (died 2004) American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
December 3 — Eli Mandel (died 1992) was a Canadian poet and literary academic
date not known:
- Aris Alexandrou, Greek
- John Bruce
- Douglas Grant Lochhead
- A. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. The Waste Land ( 1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T Anna Akhmatova (А́нна Ахма́това real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко ( — March 5 1966 was the Pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. The Waste Land ( 1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T Rainer Maria Rilke (also Rainer Maria von Rilke (4 December 1875 &ndash 29 December 1926 is considered one of the German language 's greatest 20th century Poets The Duino Elegies ( German Duineser Elegien) are a set of ten elegies written in German by the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke from The Sonnets to Orpheus are a cycle of Sonnets written by German-language Poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 &ndash 1926 in 1922 Anna Akhmatova (А́нна Ахма́това real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко ( — March 5 1966 was the Pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko For the Angolan politician and writer see Mário Pinto de Andrade. Paulicéia Desvairada is a collection of poems by Mário de Andrade, published in 1922 Hilda Conkling (1910 &ndash 1986 was an American Poet. She was the daughter of Grace Hazard Conkling, a poet in her own right and Assistant Professor Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 was an English novelist Short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement though he saw James Weldon Johnson ( June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American author politician diplomat critic journalist poet anthologist Claude McKay ( September 15, 1889 May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican Writer and Poet. William Hughes Mearns (1875-1965 better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American Educator and Poet. " Antigonish " is a Quatrain by American educator and Poet Hughes Mearns. Poems of Today was a series of Anthologies of Poetry, almost all Anglo-Irish produced by the English Association. The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Carl August Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 &ndash July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor best known for his Poetry César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza ( March 16 1892 &ndash April 15 1938) was a Peruvian Poet. Sir William Turner Walton, OM ( March 29, 1902 &ndash March 8, 1983) was a British Composer and Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE ( 7 September, 1887 &ndash 9 December, 1964) was a British Poet and critic William Carlos Williams ( 17 September 1883 &ndash 4 March 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism William Carlos Williams 's Spring and All is a volume published in 1923 by Robert McAlmon 's Contact Publishing Co William Carlos Williams ' 1923 poem The Red Wheelbarrow exemplifies the Imagist -influenced philosophy of “no ideas but in things” Edwin Arlington Robinson ( December 22, 1869 &ndash April 6, 1935) was an American Poet, who won three Pulitzer The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author The Hawthornden Prize is a British Literary award. It was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender, a contemporary patron of the letters and named after Edmund Charles Blunden, MC ( November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974) was an English poet author and critic Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Jack Kerouac ( March 12 1922 &ndash October 21 1969) was an American Novelist, Writer, Poet, and The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE ( April 16, 1922 &ndash October 22, 1995) was an English Novelist, The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Donald Alfred Davie ( July 17, 1922 – September 18, 1995) was an English Movement poet and literary critic The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day This article is about a specific literary movement - for other literary movements see List of literary movements The Movement was a term Events 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 was an English Poet, Novelist and Jazz The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Elizabeth Winifred Brewster (born 26 August 1922) is a Canadian poet and academic Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Jackson Mac Low ( September 12, 1922 &ndash December 8, 2004) was an American Poet, Performance artist, Composer Events April 1 &mdash Foetrycom Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Eli Mandel ( 3 December 1922 - 3 September 1992) was a Canadian Poet and literary academic Events The Forward Book of Poetry an annual anthology of best British poems is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written Aris Alexandrou (Greek Άρης Αλεξάνδρου) ( 1922 - 2 July 1978) was a Greek literature refers to those writings autochthonic to the areas of Greek influence typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects throughout the John Bruce can refer to John Bruce (Canada (1837&ndash1893 first president of the Métis provisional government during the Red River Rebellion L. Hendricks (Jamaica)
- Sidney Arthur
- Kilworth Keyes
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
- Vernon Scannell, British poet, author and at one time a professional boxer who has written novels about boxing

Deaths

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 3 — John Butler Yeats, poet
September 2 — Henry Lawson, 55, Australian writer and poet
September 10 — Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 62, British poet and writer
November 27 — Alice Meynell, 75, née Thompson, English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet
date not known:
- Josephine Peabody
- Marjorie Pickthall
- Walter Alexander Raleigh

Contents

Events

Works published

Awards and honors

Births

Deaths

See also