1913 in poetry

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ya2=1915
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Events

* Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London
* Ezra Pound travels to London to meet William Butler Yeats, whom he considered "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from that year until 1916, the two men wintered in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet
* January and March — Three poems of Hilda Doolittle appear in the January issue of "", submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March 1913 issue of the magazine also contained Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay "Imagisme". This publication history meant that this London-based movement had its first readership in the United States.
* The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication in June but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owned it; Rebecca West edited it at first, then Ezra Pound took over as editor; it succeeded "The Freewoman" and would be succeeded by The Egoist
* Founding of "The Glebe" a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues.
* Pound — who had heard about "The Glebe" from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos [Bochner, Jay, 'The Glebe' in "American Literary Magazines: The Twentieth Century", edited by Edward E. Chielens (Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1992) page 137.] — sent Kreymborg the manuscript of "Des Imagistes" in the summer [Kenner, Hugh, "The Pound Era", 1971 (Faber and Faber, 1972. ISBN 0-571-10668-4 paperback). page 158 ] and this famous first anthology of Imagism was published as the fifth issue of "The Glebe" [Churchill, Suzanne, 'Making Space for Others: A History of a Modernist Little Magazine' in "Journal of Modern Literature", Volume: 22. Issue: 1. 1998 page 52.]
* Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, came up with the name "Generation of '98" this year, referring to the novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898 and alluding to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat in that war. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorated Spanish letters, revived literary myths and broke with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justified radicalism and rebellion.
* Poet Wallace Stevens and his wife, Elsie, rent a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph Weinman, who makes a bust of Elsie, whose image later is used on the artist's 1916-1945 Mercury dime design.

Works published

* Guillaume Apollinaire—"Alcools"
* Robert Frost—"A Boy's Will"
* Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"
* D. H. Lawrence, "Love Poems"
* Vachel Lindsay, "General Booth Enters Heaven and Other Poems"
* Siegfried Sassoon—"The Daffodil Murderer"
* Georg Trakl, "Gedichte" ("Poems"). The Austrian native's work was published in Germany.
* William Carlos Williams, "The Tempers"
* William Butler Yeats, "Poems Written in Discouragement"

Births

* February 10 — Charles Henri Ford (died 2002), American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist
* February 28 — Virginia Hamilton Adair, (died 2004), American poet
* March 29 — R.S. Thomas (died 2000), Anglo-Welsh poet
* December 27 — Elizabeth Smart (died 1986), Canadian poet and novelist

Deaths

* June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore, partly for "Gitanjali"
* Robert Bridges becomes British Poet Laureate

Notes

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry