1929 in poetry

1929 in poetry

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Events

* "The Little Review", edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication
* "The Dial" ceases publication

Works published

* Djuna Barnes, "A Night Among the Horses" a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, "A Book"
* Ursula Bethell, "From a Garden in the Antipodes", "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain: [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008]
* Robert Bridges, "The Testament of Beauty"
* Cecil Day-Lewis, "Transitional Poem"
* Emily Dickenson, Little, Brown, & Company publishes 150 of her recently discovered poems
* Robin Hyde, "The Desolate Star", New Zealand
* Robinson Jeffers, "Dear Judas and Other Poems"
* D. H. Lawrence, "Pansies"
* I. A. Richards, "Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement"
* Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet", influential compilation of 10 letters sent to Franz Kappus from 1903 to 1908 and published by Kappus this year; Germany
* W. B. Yeats, "The Winding Stair"

Awards and honors

United States

* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, "John Browns Body"

Births

* January 9 — Heiner Muller (died 1995), German
* February 16 — Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet and regular participant in the weekly meetings of The Group
* March 6 — Gunter Kunert, German
* April 2 — Edward Dorn (died 1999) American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
* May 16 — Adrienne Rich, American poet
* August 21 — X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
* August 29 — Thom Gunn, poet
* September 26 — Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
* October 13 — Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
* October 28 — John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
* Date not known:
** Anne Ellen Beresford
** Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]
** Ursula A. Fanthorpe
** John Patrick Montague
** Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic

Deaths

* March 8 — Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45, British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers
* March 28 — Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best knonw as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"
* June 8 - Bliss Carman, 68, Canadian poet
* July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist

ee also

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

References


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