1912 in poetry

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yp2=1910
yp3=1911
year=1912
ya1=1913
ya2=1914
ya3=1915
dp3=1880s
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Events

* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others.harvnb|Dutta|Robinson|1995|pp=178-179.] Yeats writes the preface to the English translation of Tagore's "Gitanjali"
* H. E. Monro edits "The Poetry Review", journal of the Poetry Recital Society
* Harriet Munroe founds "" in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); in 1912 she described its policy this way:

Imagist poets

* Three poets meet and work out the principles of Imagist poetry. The most prominent of the poets, Ezra Pound, later writes about the formulation in 1954: [Pound, Ezra, "A Retrospect" (Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1954)]

cquote|In the spring or early summer of 1912, 'H.D.' [Hilda Doolittle] , Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following::1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective.:2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.:3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.

* At a meeting with Doolittle and Aldington in the British Museum tea room, Pound appends the signature "H.D. Imagiste" to Doolittle's poetry, creating a label that was to stick to the poet for most of her writing life

* October — Pound submits to "" three poems each by Doolittle and Aldington under the label "Imagiste". Aldington's poems were printed in the November issue, and H.D.'s appeared in the January 1913 issue. The March 1913 issue of "Poetry" also contained Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay "Imagisme". This publication history meant that Imagism, although London-based, had its first readership in the United States.

Works published in English

* Anna Akhmatova, "Evening", her first collection
* Pauline Johnson, "Flint and Feather"
* Sir Edward Marsh, "Georgian Poetry 1911-12", an anthology
* Ezra Pound:
**"Ripostes", LondonAckroyd, Peter, "Ezra Pound", Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121]
**Translator, "The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti", London
* Robert Service, "Rhymes of a Rolling Stone"
* Rabindranath Tagore, "Gitanjali"

Works published in other languages

* Gottfried Benn, "Morgue und andere Gedichte" ("Morgue and other Poems") (Berlin), Germany

Awards and honors

Births

* February 11 — Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (died 1991)
* February 27 — Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (died 1990)
* May 8 — George Woodcock (died 1995), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
* July 14 — Northrop Frye, Canadian critic
* September 12 — J. F. Hendry, poet
* December 9 — Denis Glover (died 1980) New Zealand poet and publisher

Deaths

* January 16 — Georg Heym (born 1887), German poet
* Dates unknown:
** Hafiz Ibrahim, Egyptian poet

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry

References