1914 in poetry

yearbox2
in?=in poetry
in2?=in literature
cp=19th century
c=20th century
cf=21st century

yp1=1911
yp2=1912
yp3=1913
year=1914
ya1=1915
ya2=1916
ya3=1917
dp3=1880s
dp2=1890s
dp1=1900s
d=1910s
da=0
dn1=1920s
dn2=1930s
dn3=1940s|

Events

* March — "The Little Review" founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance
* July 2 —"BLAST", a short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, is founded with the publication of the first of its total of two editions
* The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to "The New Freewoman" (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce

Works published

* Anna Akhmatova, "The Rosary", her second collection, by this time there are thousands of women composing their poems "after Akhmatova"; the book becomes so popular in Russia that a "parlor game based upon the book was even invented. One person would recite a line of poetry and the next person would try to recite the next, until the entire book was recited." [ [http://www.jazzkeyboard.com/jill/akhmatova/akhmat.html] Debka, Jill, "Akhmatova: Biographical/Historical Overview" short biographical sketch of Akhmatova, accessed December 8, 2006]
* Robert Frost, "North of Boston"
* Thomas Hardy, "Satires of Circumstance"
* Joyce Kilmer, "Trees and Other Poems", including "Trees"
* Ezra Pound, editor, "Des Imagistes: An Anthology", the first anthology of the Imagism movement; published by the Poetry Bookshop in London and issued in America both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical "The Glebe" for February 1914 (issue #5)
* Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" in "Poetry" magazine
* Ernst Stadler, "Der Aufbruch", this German poet's most important volume of verse, regarded as a key work of early Expressionism; he was killed in battle this year.
* Gertrude Stein, "Tender Buttons"
* Wallace Stevens' first major publication (of his poem "Phases") is in the November issue of "Poetry" [Wallace Stevens (search results), [http://www.poetrymagazine.org/search_author.html?query=6576 Poetry Magazine] .] The poem was written when Stevens was 35, and he is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. (Many of his canonical works were written well after he turned fifty.) According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, no Western writer since Sophocles has had such a late flowering of artistic genius.
* W. B. Yeats, "Responsibilities" [Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, "W. B. Yeats", Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 83]

Awards and honors

Births

* February 14 — Jan Nisar Akhtar (died 1976) Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms and lyricist for Bollywood
* February 24 — Weldon Kees (missing and presumed dead, 1955), American poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, composer and artist.
* March 31 — Octavio Paz (died 1998) Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990
* May 6 — Randall Jarrell, American poet and writer
* June 26 — Laurie Lee
* October 27 — Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet

Deaths

* July 23 — Charlotte Forten Grimké, 76, African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and teacher
* October 8 — Adelaide Crapsey 26, American poet
* October 10 — Ernst Stadler (born 1883), German poet killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres in the early months of World War I.

* November 3 — Georg Trakl, 27, Austrian poet

Notes

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry
* Imagism
* Modernist poetry in English

Notes