1926 in poetry

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year=1926
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ya2=1928
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Events

* The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
* Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Works published

* W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, "A Treasury of New Zealand Verse", revised version (without preface) of "New Zealand Verse", published in 1906, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837]
* E.E. Cummings, "is 5"
* Federico García Lorca, "Oda a Salvador Dalí" (Spanish for "Ode to Salvador Dalí")
* Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues", including "The Weary Blues"
* Hugh MacDiarmid, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"
* Archibald MacLeish, "Streets in the Moon", including "The End of the World"
* Dorothy Parker, "Enough Rope"
* Ezra Pound, "Personae"
* Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Awards and honors

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, "What's O'Clock"

Births

* January 5 — W. D. Snodgrass, pseudonym S. S. Gardons, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
* February 18 — A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
* March 3 — James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
* May 21 — Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet, author and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
* May 26 — Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
* June 3 — Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
* June 5 — David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
* June 25 — Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973) Austrian poet and author
* June 27 — Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
* June 29 — James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
* July 18 — Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
* September 1 — James Reaney, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
* November 23 — Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
* November 24 — Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
* December 23 — Robert Bly, American poet, author, and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States
* date not known:
** Marya Fiamengo
** Nikos Karouzos, Greek
** Francis Edward Sparshott

Deaths

* May 30 — Perceval Gibbon Welsh poet, author and journalist
* July 19 — Ada Cambridge, 81, July 19, 1926), English writer and poet
* August 1 - Israel Zangwill, English poet
* December 29 — Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, German poet, from leukemia
* date not known:
** Charles Montagu Doughty, English poet, writer, and traveller
** Eva Selena Gore-Booth
** Francis Joseph Sherman

Notes

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry