1911 in poetry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| List of years in poetry (table) |
|---|
| … 1901 . 1902 . 1903 . 1904 . 1905 . 1906 . 1907 … 1908 1909 1910 -1911- 1912 1913 1914 … 1915 . 1916 . 1917 . 1918 . 1919 . 1920 . 1921 … In literature: 1908 1909 1910 -1911- 1912 1913 1914 |
| Related time period or subjects |
| … 1908 . 1909 . 1910 - 1911 - 1912 . 1913 . 1914 … … 1880s . 1890s . 1900s -1910s- 1920s . 1930s . 1940s |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.
[edit] Works published
[edit] Indian subcontinent
Including 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:
- J. N. Gupta, The Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, (Dutt [ 1848–1920] was an Indian poet who wrote in English), published in New York and London this year
- Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form[2] (surname: Gurajada)
- S. G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada language[1]
- Tirupathi Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales[2] (surname: Tirupathi)
[edit] United Kingdom
- Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911
- G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse[3]
- Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse[3]
- E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre[3]
- Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy[3]
- John Masefield, Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers (for children)[3]
- Setephen Phillips, The New Inferno[3]
- Katharine Tynan, New Poems[3]
[edit] Other
- Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony
- Victor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, Australia
- J. D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland Lyrics[4]
- Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London[5]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb Riley
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 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 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
- March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian
- May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet
- 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 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[1]
- 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 9 – Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet
- October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet
- 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:
- C. B. Christesen (died 2003), Australian
- Robert Clark, Australian[6]
- Ernst Meister (died 1979), German[7]
- Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[1]
- Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator[8]
- Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist[1]
- Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist[1]
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835), English civil servant, literary historian and poet
- August 7 – Elizabeth Chase Allen (born 1832), American author, journalist and poet
- Also:
- Jwala Prasad Barq (born 1863), Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translator[1]
- Eknath Ganesh Bhandare (born 1863), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator and a station-master[1]
- Abdul Ahad Nadim (born 1840), Indian, Urdu-language poet who wrote "nats" (devotional lyrics addressed to the Prophet) in the traditional variety of the Kashmiri '"Vatsun"[1]
- Frances Watkins
[edit] See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Acmeist poetry movement in Russian poetry
- Dymock poets
- Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
- Expressionism movement in German poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ a b Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree, pp 306-328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 20089
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ "Robert Clark". Friendly Street Poets. http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/clark.htm. Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- ^ 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
|
|||||
|
|||||||||||
