- 1922 in poetry
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ya1=1923
ya2=1924
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established
* The "Criterion " appears
* William Butler Yeats' "Who goes with Fergus" (first published in 1892 is the songJames 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 onfree verse : 'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum '.Works published
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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 byEdith Sitwell
*William Carlos Williams :
** "Spring and All "
*** "The Red Wheelbarrow "
*W.B. Yeats , "Later Poems"Awards and honors
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Edwin Arlington Robinson won thePulitzer Prize for Poetry for his "Collected Poems" (1921)
*Hawthornden Prize for poetry:Edmund Blunden Births
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March 12 —Jack Kerouac (died 1969), American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of theBeat 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. 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 boxingDeaths
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January 21 —John Kendrick Bangs , 59, American author, satirist, poet and the creator ofBangsian 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 ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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