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Overview of the events of 1918 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).
James Joyce in 1918
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
—Closing line of "Anthem for Doomed Youth " by Wilfred Owen
Works published in English [ edit ]
The Bengali Writers of English Verse: A Record and an Appreciation , Calcutta: Thacker, Spink U Co., 1918.; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 119 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English , published in the United Kingdom[4]
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya , The Feast of Youth , Madras: Theosophical Publishing House; India , Indian poetry in English [5]
Baldoon Dhingra , Symphony of Love , Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English , published in the United Kingdom [5]
Theodore Douglas Dunn , editor, The Bengali Book of English Verse , Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co.; anthology; Indian poetry in English [4]
Marian Allen , The Wind on the Downs
Laurence Binyon , The New World: Poems [6]
Vera Brittain , Verses of a VAD
Rupert Brooke (died on active service 1915), The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke [6]
Émile Cammaerts , Messines and other Poems , Belgian-born poet writing in English
Walter de la Mare , Motley, and Other Poems [6]
Baldoon Dhingra , Symphony of Love , Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English , published in the United Kingdom[5]
Eleanor Farjeon , Sonnets and Poems
Wilfrid Gibson , Whin [6]
Oliver St. John Gogarty , The Ship, and Other Poems
Helen Hamilton, Napoo!
A. P. Herbert , The Bomber Gipsy, and Other Poems [6]
Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins [6]
C. Morton Horne ("killed in action January 27, 1916"), Songs of the Shrapnel Shell, and Other Verse , Irish poet published simultaneously in the United States and United Kingdom
Ford Madox Hueffer , On Heaven, and Poems written on active service
Aldous Huxley , The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems [6]
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy , Rough Rhymes of a Padre
D. H. Lawrence , New Poems [6]
Bertram Lloyd , ed., Poems Written During the Great War, 1914–1918 [7]
Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), War, The Liberator, and Other Pieces Scottish poet
Terence MacSwiney , Battle-cries , Irish poet
Susan Miles , Dunch
Margaret Postgate , Margaret Postgate's Poems
Morley Roberts , War Lyrics [6]
Siegfried Sassoon , Counter-Attack and Other Poems [6]
Fredegond Shove , Dreams and Journeys
Dora Sigerson (died January 6), The Sad Years and Other Poems ,[6] Irish poet resident in London
Edith Sitwell , Clowns' Houses
Sacheverell Sitwell , The People's Palace [6]
Geoffrey Bache Smith (died of wounds 1916), A Spring Harvest (edited with preface by J. R. R. Tolkien )
J. C. Squire , Poems, First Series [6]
Edward Thomas (killed in action April 9), Last Poems [6]
Katharine Tynan , Herb o' Grace, poems in war-time
Arthur Waley , editor and translator, One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems , anthology[6]
W. B. Yeats , Nine Poems ,[6] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Conrad Aiken , The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems [8]
Sherwood Anderson , Mid-American Chants [8]
Stephen Vincent Benét , Young Adventure [8]
John Gould Fletcher , The Tree of Life [8]
Amy Lowell , Can Grande's Castle [8]
Edgar Lee Masters , Toward the Gulf [8]
Charles Reznikoff , Rhythms , his first book of poetry, a small volume, self-published
Lola Ridge , The Ghetto and Other Poems [8]
Carl Sandburg , Cornhuskers , Holt, Rinehart and Winston[9]
Wallace Stevens , "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle " is first published (it will later be included in his first poetry book, Harmonium [10]
Other in English [ edit ]
Works published in other languages [ edit ]
Guillaume Apollinaire , pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Calligrammes France [11]
Jean Cocteau , Le Cap de Bonne Espérance , about the author's experience as a trapeze artist, written in vers brisés [12]
Henri de Régnier, 1914–1916: poésies
Max Jacob , Le Cornet à Dès [13]
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz , also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Adramandoni [14]
Pierre Reverdy ,
Les Ardoises du toit [14]
Les Jockeys camouflés [14]
Tristan Tzara , pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Vingt-cinq poèmes [14]
Kurd Adler, Wiederkehr: Gedichte
Wilhelm Runge, Das Denken träumt
Spanish language [ edit ]
Gerardo Diego , El romancero de la novia ("The Bride's Ballads"), Spain [15]
Federico García Lorca , Impressiones y paisajes ("Impressions and Landscapes"), Spain
César Vallejo , Los heraldos negros ("The Black Heralds" [16] Peru [17]
Other languages [ edit ]
Deva Kanta Barua , Sagar dekhisa , Indian , Assamese language [18]
Aleksandr Blok , The Twelve Russian : Двенадцать, Dvenadtsat ), a controversial long poem, one of the first poetic responses to Russia's 1917 October Revolution
António Botto , Cantigas de Saudade , Portugal
Miloš Crnjanski , Лирика Итаке ("Lyrics of Ithaca"), Serbian Cyrillic
Aaro Hellaakoski , Nimettömiä lauluja Finland
Sh-Y. Imber, ed. Inter arma: a zamlung lirik (Inter Arma : a collection of lyrics), Galician Yiddish , Austria [19]
Sir Muhammad Iqbal , Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (The Secrets of Selflessness Persian , his second philosophical poetry book
Augusta Peaux , Gedichten , Netherlands
Pavlo Tychyna , Clarinets of the Sun , Ukraine
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 1 – Muriel Spark (died 2006 ), Scottish novelist and poet
February 17 – William Bronk (died 1999 ), American poet
April 15 – Louis Coxe (died 1993 ), American poet
April 23 – James Kirkup (died 2009 ), English poet, translator and travel writer
May 10 – Jane Mayhall (died 2009 ), American poet and novelist [20]
May 21 – Gopal Prasad Rimal (died 1973 ), Indian , Nepali -language poet and playwright[18]
July 9 – John Heath-Stubbs (died 2006 ), English poet and translator
August 23 – Vinda Karandikar , also known as C. V. Karandikar (died 2010 ), Indian , Marathi -language poet, critic and translator[18]
August 31 – Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉 (died 2008 ), Japanese Shōwa and Heisei period novelist and poet (surname: Shimizu)
September 30 – Gevorg Emin Գևորգ Էմին (died 1998 ), Armenian [21]
November 14 – Valentin Iremonger (died 1991 ), Irish poet and diplomat
November 16 – Nicholas Moore (died 1986 ), English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later drops out of the literary world
November 18 – İlhan Berk (died 2008 ), Turkish poet
November 19 – W. S. Graham (died 1986 ), Scottish poet often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic poets
December 8 – Hans Børli (died 1989 ), Norwegian poet, novelist and writer
December 30 – Al Purdy (died 2000 ), popular Canadian poet
Also:
M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (died 1992 ), Indian , Kannada -language poet often said to be the pioneer of the "navya" (modernist) literary movement in Karnataka [18]
Indra Dev Bhojvani , also known as "Indur", Indian , Sindhi -language[18]
Ram Narain Singh Dardi , Indian , Punjabi -language poet who wrote in the Lahndi dialect[18]
Siddayya Puranika , Indian , Kannada -language poet[18]
Amritdhari Singha , Indian , Maithili -language writer, philosopher and poet[18]
John McCrae 's grave at Wimereux cemetery
Note two subsections, below. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Wilfred Campbell (born c.1860 ), Canadian poet
January 6 – Dora Sigerson (born 1866 ), Irish poet
June 10 – Arrigo Boito (born 1842 ), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer
June 26 – Peter Rosegger (born 1843 ), Austrian poet
September 18 – Saul Adadi (born 1850 ), Libyan Sephardi Jewish hakham , rosh yeshiva and writer of piyyutim
September 21 — Emily Julian McManus (born 1865 ), Canadian poet, author, and educator
October 12 – Mary Hannay Foott (born 1846 ), Australian poet
c. November (probable date) – Arthur Cravan (born 1887 ), Swiss -born Francophone literary editor, poet and boxer, presumed lost at sea[22]
December 23 – Thérèse Schwartze (born 1851 ), Dutch portrait painter and poet
Also:
A. R. Raja Raja Varma (born 1863 ), Indian , Malayalam -language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran [23]
Balakavi , pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (born 1890 ), Indian , Marathi -language poet; died in a train accident[18]
Gobinda Rath (born 1848 ), Indian , Oriya -language poet and satirist[18]
Govind Vasudev Kanitkar (born 1854 ), Indian , Marathi -language poet and translator[18]
Killed in World War I [ edit ]
Sgt. Joyce Kilmer , American poet and a member of the 69th Volunteer Infantry Unit
January 28 – John McCrae (born 1872 ), Canadian poet, author of "In Flanders Fields " and lieutenant colonel serving as a field surgeon in the war, from pneumonia
April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg (born 1890 ), English war poet , killed in Fampoux in the Somme at dawn (there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat); first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926 , his remains are identified and reinterred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery[24] [25] Pas de Calais , France
July 30 – Joyce Kilmer (born 1886 ), American , killed in Second Battle of the Marne in France after volunteering to join Major William "Wild Bill" Donovan 's First Battalion to lead the day's attack; while scouting, Kilmer is shot in the head near the village of Seringes; posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre
November 4 – Wilfred Owen (born 1893 ), English war poet, killed in action in France (see Events above )
John Munro (Iain Rothach) (born 1889 ), Scottish Gaelic poet, killed serving with the Seaforth Highlanders
See also Guillaume Apollinaire below
Awards and honors [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
^ Sassoon, Siegfried (1945). Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920 . London: Faber. pp. 71–84.
^ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald , Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
^ a b 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.
^ a b c Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English ISBN 0-391-03286-0 , ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6 ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Varty, Anne (2017-01-02). "Women's Poetry in First World War Anthologies and Two Collections of 1916". Women's Writing . 24 1 ): 37–52. doi :10.1080/09699082.2016.1233772 . ISSN 0969-9082 .
^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("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." — from the Preface, p vi)
^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, ed., The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry , W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
^ Buttel, Robert. The Making of Harmonium. 1967: Princeton University Press, p. 86. See also the LibriVox site for the complete public domain poems of Wallace Stevens.[1 ] Archived 2010-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03.
^ Brée, Germaine , Twentieth-Century French Literature , translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century , Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
^ a b c d 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
^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3 , retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
^ Web page titled "César Vallejo" at the website of the Academy of American Poets, retrieved August 28, 2011
^ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 645.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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
^ Fogel, Joshua (2014-06-11). "Shmuel-Yankev (Samuel Jacob) Imber" . Yiddish Leksikon . Retrieved 2019-12-16 .
^ Mayhall, Poet Who Gained Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 90 New York Times , March 19, 2009, retrieved March 22, 2009
^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature , New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003
^ Dictionnaire des Littératures de langue Francaise . Vol. 1. Paris: Bordas. 1987. p. 603.
^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology , pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
^ Bailleul Road east Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France Archived 2008-08-30 at the Wayback Machine at ww1cemeteries.com
^ CWGC :: Casualty Details at www.cwgc.org
^ Lebarbenchon, Roger Jean (1988). La Grève de Lecq . ISBN 2-905385-13-8 .
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