1912 in poetry

Summary

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
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Events edit

The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine—may the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! To this end the editors hope to keep free from entangling alliances with any single class or school. They desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written. Nor will the magazine promise to limit its editorial comments to one set of opinions.

Imagist poets edit

  • Three poets meet and work out the principles of Imagist poetry. The most prominent of them, Ezra Pound, writes about the formulation in 1954:[4]

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 is to stick to the poet for most of her writing life
  • October – Pound submits to Poetry: A Magazine of Verse three poems each by Doolittle and Aldington under the label Imagiste. Aldington's poems are printed in the November issue, and H.D.'s appear in the January 1913 issue. The March 1913 issue of Poetry also contains Pound's A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that Imagism, although London-based, has its first readership in the United States.

Works published in English edit

Canada edit

India, in English edit

United Kingdom edit

United States edit

Other in English edit

Works published in other languages edit

France edit

Indian subcontinent edit

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Telugu language edit

  • Gurajada Appa Rao (surname: Gurajada), narrative poems written in a four-line, stanzaic form, new for Telugu poetry:

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent edit

  • Akshay Kumar Baral, Esa, Indian, Bengali-language
  • Maithilisharan Gupta, "Bharat Bharati" ("The Voice of India"), Hindi poem glorifying the nation's past, deploring its contemporary social and political condition and calling for good relations between Hindus and Muslims at a time when animosity between the two groups was rising[21]
  • Sumatiben Mehta, Hridayjharnan, a poem conveying her anguish during an extended illness (posthumous), written in the Gujarati language[22]

Other edit

Awards and honors edit

Births edit

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths edit

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See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Lord, Walter (1955). A Night to Remember. New York: Holt.
  2. ^ Eckert, Robert P. Jr. (Spring 1940). "Robert Frost In England". Mark Twain Quarterly. 3 (4): 5–8, 23, 22. JSTOR 42658244.
  3. ^ Dutta, Krishna; Robinson, Andrew (1995). Rabindranath Tagore: the myriad-minded man. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-0-7475-2004-7.
  4. ^ Pound, Ezra, "A Retrospect" (Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1954)
  5. ^ Mary Jane Edwards, "Drummond, William Henry," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Web, Apr. 15, 2011.
  6. ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
  7. ^ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
  8. ^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867–1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
  9. ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
  10. ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  12. ^ a b Brenier, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p 62, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-58712-9, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
  13. ^ Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
  14. ^ a b c d Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
  15. ^ a b c d e f Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
  16. ^ a b Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
  17. ^ a b Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  18. ^ a b c Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
  19. ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009
  20. ^ a b Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree' ', pp 306–328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 2008
  21. ^ Natarajan, Nalini, and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut, United States: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0-313-28778-3, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved via Google Books on June 17, 2009
  22. ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
  23. ^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 11, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
  24. ^ a b c d e f g Das, Sisir Kumar; et al. (1995). History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy. Vol. 2. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
  25. ^ "Robinson, Roland (1912–1992)". Australia Dancing. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-10-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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