1915 in poetry

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Events

*The poem "Into Battle" is published in "The Times" a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle.
* Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa"."
* Ezra Pound begins writing "The Cantos"
* "" founded by Alfred Kreymborg in July, it will run until 1917, publishing poetry, other writing, and visual art

Works published

*Richard Aldington, "Images 1910-1915"
*Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Asrar-i-Khudi (Urdu: اسرار خودی) or "The Secrets of the Self" his first philosophical book of poetry, published in Persian
*Djuna Barnes, "The Book of Repulsive Women", her first book of poems, which she described as a collection of "rhythms and drawings"
*Rupert Brooke, "1914 & Other Poems"
*Adelaide Crapsey, "Verse", and her invention of the quintain, a five-line form
*C. J. Dennis, long poem "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", after serialization in "The Bulletin" since 1909
*T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" published in Poetry magazine in Chicago
*Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain," on the sinking of the Titanic
*Francis Ledwidge, "Songs of the Fields"
*Edgar Lee Masters, "Spoon River Anthology"
* May 3 - "In Flanders Fields", a war memorial poem, is written by Canadian poet John McCrae after his friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in battle (McCrae himself would not survive the war); later in the year the poem is published in "Punch"
*Ezra Pound, "Cathay"
*Edith Sitwell, "The Mother and Other Poems"
* Georg Trakl, "Sebastian im Traum" (Sebastian in the Dream). The Austrian native's work was published in Germany.

Anthologies

*"Poems of Today", British poetry anthology
* Ezra Pound, editor, "Catholic Anthology", London

"Some Imagist Poets" anthology

Contents to "Some Imagist Poets" anthology, the first of three books with the same title published in the next two years:
* Richard Aldington: "Childhood", "The Poplar", "Round-Pond", "Daisy", "Epigrams", "The Faun sees Snow for the First Time", "Lemures"
* H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): "The Pool", "The Garden", "Sea Lily", "Sea Iris", "Sea Rose", "Oread", "Orion Dead"
* John Gould Fletcher: "The Blue Symphony", "London Excursion"
* F. S. Flint: "Trees", "Lunch", "Malady", "Accident", "Fragment", "Houses", "Eau-Forte"
* D. H. Lawrence: "Ballad of Another Ophelia", "Illicit", "Fireflies in the Corn", "A Woman and Her Dead Husband", "The Mowers", "Scent of Irises", "Green"
* Amy Lowell: "Venus Transiens", "The Travelling Bear", "The Letter", "Grotesque", "Bullion", "Solitaire", "The Bombardment"

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

Births

* May 30 — Michael Thwaites (died 2005), Australian poet, academic, intelligence officer, and activist
*July 1 — Alun Lewis, Welsh war poet
*July 7 — Margaret Walker, poet and novelist
*November 8 — G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
*December 8 — Nikos Gatsos, Greek
*December 22 — David Martin
*December 27 — John Cornford

Deaths

* January 3 — James Elroy Flecker, 28, English poet, novelist and dramatist, from tuberculosis in Switzerland
* date not known:
** Stuart Merrill, American poet who wrote in French and belonged to the Symbolist school.
** Eric Roach of Tobago

Killed in World War I

* April 23 — Rupert Brooke; English poet and writer, died from septic pneumonia from an infected mosquito bite while sailing with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force off the island of Lemnos in the Aegean on its way to Gallipoli
* May 26 — Julian Grenfell, war poet, killed at Ypres
* October 13 — Charles Hamilton Sorley, 20, British poet, shot in the head by a sniper, at the Battle of Loos in France

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry