1910 in poetry
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| “ | If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, |
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— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year in Rewards and Fairies
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Oxford Poetry founded as a literary magazine by publisher Basil Blackwell in England.
Works published
Canada
- The Rev. James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Poems[1]
- Frederick George Scott, also known as "F. G. Scott", Collected Poems[1]
- Tom MacInnes, In Amber Lands, mostly a reprint of Lonesome Bar and Other Poems 1909[1]
- "Yukon Bill" [Kate Simpson Hayes], Derby Days in the Yukon.[2]
United Kingdom
- Hilaire Belloc, Verses[3]
- Frances Cornford, Poems[3]
- W. H. Davies, Farewell to Posey, and Other Pieces[3]
- James Elroy Flecker, Thirty-Six Poems[3]
- Ford Madox Ford, Songs from London[3]
- Wilfrid Gibson, Daily Bread[3]
- Lawrence Hope, edtior, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[4]
- Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies,[3] short stories and poems, including If—
- John Masefield, Ballads and Poems[3]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
United States
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
- Charles Follen Adams, Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems[6]
- Franklin Pierce Adams, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain; a popular baseball poem
- Robert Underwood Johnson, Saint-Gaudens, an Ode[6]
- John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads[6]
- Ezra Pound:
- Provenca[7]
- The Spirit of Romance[6]
- Edward Arlington Robinson, The Town Down the River, Charles Scrabbler's Sons[8]
- George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe,[6] criticism
Other in English
- Joseph Furtado, Lays of Old Goa, Indian poetry in English[9]
- Lawrence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[4]
- Henry Lawson, The Skyline Riders and other Verses, Australia[10]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
Works published in other languages
France
- Paul Claudel, Cinq Grandes Odes, France[11]
- Jean Cocteau, Le prince frivole[12]
- Alphonse Métérié, Carnets[12]
- Charles Péguy, Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc[13]
- Saint-John Perse, Eleges[13]
Other languages
- Delmira Agustini, Cantos de la mañana, Uruguay[14]
- Ernst Enno, Hallid laulud, Estonia
- Gurajada Appa Rao, Mutyala Saralu, Indian poetry, Telugu-language[15] (surname: Gurajada)
- Takuboku Ishikawa, Ichiakuno suna ("A Handful of Sand"), Japanese (surname: Ishikawa)
- Maria Konopnicka, Pan Balcer w Brazylii, Polish
- Peider Lansel, editor, La musa ladina, anthology of Romansh language Swiss poets
- Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Bengali
Births
- January 11 – Nikos Kavadias (died 1975), Greek
- March 21 – Elizabeth Riddell (died 1998), Australian
- August 14 – Nathan Alterman (died 1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
- August 30 – Màrius Torres (died 1942), Catalan Spanish poet
- October 30 – Miguel Hernández (died 1942), Spanish poet
- November 10 – Máirtín Ó Direáin (died 1988), Irish poet writing in the Irish language
- November 14 – Norman MacCaig (died 1996) Scottish poet
- November 20 – Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray; died 1985), African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher and ordained Episcopal priest
- November 21? – Frank Eyre (died 1988), English-born Australian publisher
- December 19 – Jean Genet (died 1986), French novelist, playwright and poet
- December 27 – Charles Olson (died 1970), American poet
- December 30 – Paul Bowles (died 1999), American poet, author, composer and translator
- Also – R. D. Murphy, Australian poet[16]
Deaths
Julia Ward Howe, from a picture taken April 27, 1908
- January 8 – James Cuthbertson (born 1851), Australian
- January 29 – Arthur Munby (born 1828), English diarist, poet and lawyer
- April 19 – Anna Laetitia Waring (born 1823), Welsh-born poet and hymnodist
- October 17:
- William Vaughn Moody (born 1869), American dramatist and poet
- Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
- December 30 – Thomas Edward Spencer (born 1845), Australian
- Also:
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Acmeist poetry movement in Russian poetry
- Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
- Expressionism movement in German poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature
Notes
- 1 2 3 Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ↑ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 1 2 Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- 1 2 Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 83
- 1 2 3 4 5 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)
- ↑ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ↑ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
- ↑ Datta, Amaresh, et al., Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1988, ISBN 81-260-1194-7, ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0, retrieved via Google Books on June 17, 2009
- ↑ "Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. Archived 2009-05-16.
- ↑ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- 1 2 Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- 1 2 Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ↑ Web page titled "Delmira Agustini" at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011
- ↑ 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, 20089
- ↑ "Murphy, R. D.". AustLit Database. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
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