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

Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

• Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
  
   edits the February issue of Poetry
  Poetry (magazine)
  Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...
  
  magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets
  Objectivist poets
  The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, amongst others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams...
  
  . It features poetry by Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
  
  , Charles Reznikoff
  Charles Reznikoff
  Charles Reznikoff was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to provide an introduction to what became known as the Objectivist issue of Poetry, Louis Zukofsky provided his essay Sincerity and Objectification: With Special Reference to the Work of...
  
  , Carl Rakosi
  Carl Rakosi
  Carl Rakosi was the last surviving member of the original group of poets who were given the rubric Objectivist. He was still publishing and performing his poetry well into his 90s.-Early life:...
  
  , George Oppen
  George Oppen
  George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
  
  , Basil Bunting
  Basil Bunting
  Basil Cheesman Bunting was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud...
  
  , William Carlos Williams
  William Carlos Williams
  William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...
  
  , Kenneth Rexroth
  Kenneth Rexroth
  Kenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...
  
  , and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification".
• George Oppen
  George Oppen
  George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
  
   and his wife, Mary Oppen
  Mary Oppen
  Mary Oppen was an American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer.-George Oppen:...
  
   found To Publishers in Le Beausset, France; Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
  
   is editor.
• Beacon magazine founded in Trinidad
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
   (lasts until 1933
  1933 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion—not to transmit thought but...
  
  )

Canada

Canadian poetry

- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

• Wilson MacDonald
  Wilson MacDonald
  Wilson Pugsley MacDonald was a popular Canadian poet who "was known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities" as a reader of his poetry....
  
  , A Flagon Of Beauty. Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.
• Marjorie Pickthall
  Marjorie Pickthall
  Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall , was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven...
  
  , The Naiad and Five Other Poems] (Toronto: Ryerson)

India

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

, in English

Indian Poetry in English

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

• A.R. Chida, editor, An Anthology of Indo-Anglian Verse with an Introductory Note to Each Set of Selections, Hyderabad: A. R. Chida, 113 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English
  Indian Poetry in English
  Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...
  
  

United Kingdom

English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

• John Betjeman
  John Betjeman
  Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
  
  , Mount Zion; or, In Touch with the Infinite
• Laurence Binyon
  Laurence Binyon
  Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
  
  , Collected Poems
• Edmund Blunden
  Edmund Blunden
  Edmund Charles Blunden, MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong...
  
  :
  • Themis
  • publishes Wilfred Owen's
    Wilfred Owen
    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War...
    
     poems
• Robert Bridges
  Robert Bridges
  Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:...
  
  , Shorter Poems
• Roy Campbell
  Roy Campbell (poet)
  Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell, was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars...
  
  , The Georgiad, a satire openly attacking the Bloomsbury Group
  Bloomsbury Group
  The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who held informal discussions in Bloomsbury throughout the 20th century. This English collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied near Bloomsbury in London during the first half...
  
  ; a South African
  South African poetry
  The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from and identifies the major poets of South Africa, their works and influence....
  
   native published in the United Kingdom
• C. Day Lewis, From Feathers to Iron
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
  :
  • Coriolan
  • Triumphal March
• Robert Graves
  Robert Graves
  Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
  
  , Poems 1926–1930
• Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...
  
  :
  • The Cicadas, and Other Poems
  • The World of Light; A comedy, a verse drama performed March 30
• John Lehmann
  John Lehmann
  Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.The fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond...
  
  , A Garden Revisited, and Other Poems
• AE
  George William Russell
  George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years.-Organisor:Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh...
  
  , pen name
  Pen name
  A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
  
   of George William Russell, Vale, and Other Poems
• Osbert Sitwell
  Osbert Sitwell
  Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet, was an English writer. His elder sister was Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell and his younger brother was Sir Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature....
  
  , The Collected Satires and Poems
• William Soutar
  William Soutar
  William Soutar was a Scottish poet, born 1898. He served in the navy in World War I, and afterwards studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he encountered the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. This led to a radical alteration in his work, and he became a leading poet of the Scottish Literary...
  
  , Conflict
• Arthur Symons
  Arthur Symons
  Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.-Life:Born in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy...
  
  , Jezbel Mort, and Other Poems (sic)
• Humbert Wolfe
  Humbert Wolfe
  Humbert Wolfe CB CBE , was an Italian-born English poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father, Martin Wolff of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian...
  
  , Snow

United States

• Franklin P. Adams, Christopher Columbus
• Conrad Aiken
  Conrad Aiken
  Conrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography.-Early years:...
  
  :
  • The Coming Forth by Day of Osris Jones
  • Preludes for Memnon
• E. E. Cummings
  E. E. Cummings
  Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...
  
  , W (ViVa)
• Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Red Roses for Bronze
• Langston Hughes
  Langston Hughes
  James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
  
  , The Negro Mother
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...
  
  , Fatal Interview
• Ogden Nash
  Ogden Nash
  Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".-Early life:Nash was born in Rye, New York...
  
  :
  • Free Wheeling
  • Hard Lines
• Dorothy Parker
  Dorothy Parker
  Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles....
  
  , Death and Taxes
• Edward Arlington Robinson, Mathias at the Door
• Wallace Stevens
  Wallace Stevens
  Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...
  
  , Harmonium, including "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," "The Comedian as the Letter C" "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Sunday Morning," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," and "In the Clear Season of Grapes"), Knopf, revised from the 1923
  1923 in poetry
  -- From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New HampshireNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
  
   edition".
• Mark Van Doren
  Mark Van Doren
  Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, and Beat Generation...
  
  , Jonathan Gentry
• Yvor Winters
  Yvor Winters
  Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.-As modernist:Winters's early poetry, which appeared in small avant-garde magazines alongside work by writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, was written in the modernist idiom, and was heavily influenced both by Native American...
  
  , The Journey

Other in English

• Norman Cameron
  Norman Cameron
  Norman Cameron was a Scottish poet, distantly related to Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay who, between the two world wars, associated on Majorca with Robert Graves and Laura Riding. Later, as a part-time Fitzrovian, he was a colleague of Dylan Thomas, Geoffrey Grigson, Len Lye, John Aldridge RA,...
  
  , Guianese
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
   Poetry: 1831–1931

• Kenneth Slessor
  Kenneth Slessor
  Kenneth Adolf Slessor OBE was an Australian poet and journalist. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.-Life:Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe...
  
  , Harley Matthews and Colin Simpson, Trio: A Book of Poems, Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, Australia

France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

• Guillaume Apollinaire
  Guillaume Apollinaire
  Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
  
  , pen name
  Pen name
  A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
  
   of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le condor et le morpion, posthumously published (died 1918
  1918 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...
  
  )
• Louis Aragon
  Louis Aragon
  Louis Aragon , was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.- Early life :...
  
  :
  • Hourra l'Oural, influenced by the author's conversion to Marxism
  • Persécuté Persécuteur
• André Breton
  André Breton
  André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....
  
  , L'union libre
• Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  , L'Arc-en-ciel des amours, Paris: Bloud et Gay
• Pierre Jean Jouve
  Pierre Jean Jouve
  Pierre Jean Jouve was a French writer, novelist and poet. No more info at the moment.-References:...
  
  , Les Noces
• Tristan Tzara
  Tristan Tzara
  Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement...
  
  , pen name
  Pen name
  A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
  
   of Sami Rosenstock, L'Homme approximatif

Indian

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

 subcontinent

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

• Atul Prasad Sen, Gitigunja, complete collection of songs by this Bengali
  Bengali poetry
  Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...
  
   poet and composer
• Bal Krisna Rav, Kaumudi, Indian
  Indian poetry
  Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
  
  , Hindi-language
• Bhagavadacharya, Mohanapancadhydyi, Sanskrit poem on Mahatma Gandhi
  Mahatma Gandhi
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
  
  
• Chanda Jha, Candra Padyavali, edited by Baladev Mishra, Maithili
• D. K. Kelkar, Kavyalocan, a treatise in Marathi
  Marathi poetry
  -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
  
   on literary theory; discusses the nature of poetry, figures of speech, the nature of poetic pleasure and Indian literary concepts
• K. V. Simon
  K. V. Simon
  Kunnampurathu Varghese Simon was a notable Malayalam Christian poet. He was also a musician, a teacher, a reformer, a writer, a profound Bible scholar and apologist. Simon was the author of around 300 devotional songs or poems. He has also written about 30 books. K. V...
  
  , Veda Viharam, long poem based on the book of Genesis; India
  Indian poetry
  Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
  
  , Malayalam
  Malayalam poetry
  There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...
  
   language
• Mahjoor, Nav Baharo Myani Locaro Ho, Kashmiri
• Mayadhar Mansinha, Dhupa, poems in this collection remained very popular as of the mid 1990s; Oriya
• Mohan Singh Diwana, Jagat Tamasa, Punjabi (a 1927 novel by Charan Singh Sahid has the same title)
• Raja K. K., Baspanjali, Malayalam
  Malayalam poetry
  There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...
  
   work by a poet of the Vallathol school
• Siyaram Sharan Gupta, Atmostsarga, on the self-sacrifice of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
  Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
  Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi , was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He is mostly known as the founder-editor of the Hindi language newspaper, Pratap....
  
   in the cause of communal peace; Hindi
• Tallapragada Visvasundaramma, Ratri, including many patriotic poems; Telugu
  Telugu poetry
  Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
  
  
• Umashankar Joshi
  Umashankar Joshi
  Umashankar Joshi was an eminent poet, scholar and writer. He received the Jnanpith Award in 1967 for his contribution to Indian, especially Gujarati literature.-Works:...
  
  , Vishwashanti, also spelled "Visvasanti" (Indian
  Indian poetry
  Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
  
  , writing in Gujarati)
• V. Seetharamayya, Gitagalu, the author's first book of poetry, with navodaya lyrics more intellectual than most; Kannada
  Kannada poetry
  Kannada poetry is poetry written in the Kannada language spoken in Karnataka. Karnataka is the land that gave birth to eight Jnanapeeth award winners, the highest honour bestowed for Indian literature...
  
  

Spain

Spanish poetry

Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....

• Federico García Lorca
  Federico García Lorca
  Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
  
  , Poema del cante jondo ("Poem of Deep Song")
• Pedro Salinas
  Pedro Salinas
  Pedro Salinas y Serrano was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was also a scholar and critic of Spanish literature, teaching at universities in Spain, England, and the United States....
  
  , Fábula y signo ("Fable and Sign")
• José Moreno Villa
  José Moreno Villa
  José Moreno Villa was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. Was a rich man who excelled in facets: narrator, essayist, literary critic, artist, painter, columnist, researcher, archivist, librarian and archaeologist...
  
  , Carambas

Latin America

Latin American poetry

Latin American poetry is the poetry of Latin America, mostly but not entirely written in Spanish or Portuguese. The unification of Indigenous and Spanish cultures produced a unique and extraordinary body of literature in Spanish America...

• Enrique Peña Barrenechea, Cinema de los sentidos puros, Peru

Births

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

• January 6 –
  • Juan Goytisolo
    Juan Goytisolo
    Juan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He currently lives in a voluntary self-exile in Marrakech.-Background:Juan Goytisolo was born to an aristocratic family...
    
    , Spanish
    Spanish poetry
    Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
    
     poet, essayist, and novelist
  • P. J. Kavanagh
    P. J. Kavanagh
    Patrick J. Kavanagh is an English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster. His father was the ITMA scriptwriter, Ted Kavanagh.He fought in the Korean War, being evacuated as result of his injuries....
    
    , English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
    
     poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster
• January 14 – Ahmed Faraz
  Ahmed Faraz
  Ahmad Faraz born Syed Ahmad Shah on January 14, 1931, in Kohat, was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He was considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Faraz is his pseudonym 'takhalus'...
  
  , pseudonym of Syed Ahmad Shah (died 2008
  2008 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* June — the release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys *...
  
  ), Pakistani
  Pakistani literature
  Pakistan literature, that is, the literature of Pakistan, is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the Indian subcontinent. The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of...
  
   Urdu
  Urdu poetry
  Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....
  
  -language poet, son of Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, a leading traditional poet
• February 2 – Judith Viorst
  Judith Viorst
  Judith Viorst is an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney and the Alexander series of short picture books.In 1968, Viorst signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax...
  
  , American author known for her children's books and poetry
• April 15 – Ruth Fainlight
  Ruth Fainlight
  Ruth Fainlight , is a poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.-Life and career:Fainlight was born in New York, but has mainly lived in England since she was fifteen, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. She studied for two years at the Birmingham and Brighton...
  
  , Swedish
  Swedish literature
  Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden.The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök Runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around 1100 AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages,...
  
   poet, short story writer, translator and librettist
• April 19 – Etheridge Knight
  Etheridge Knight
  Etheridge Knight was an African-American poet who became a notable poet in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after Etheridge was arrested for robbery in 1960...
  
  , (died 1991
  1991 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Forward Poetry Prize created...
  
  ), an African-American poet
• May 16 – Peter Levi
  Peter Levi
  Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, , Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.-Early life and education:Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex of parents with Mediterranean...
  
  , (died 2000
  2000 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
  
  ), professor of poetry at Oxford University and an English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   poet, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and critic
• May 27 – O. N. V. Kurup
  O. N. V. Kurup
  Ottaplakkal Nambiyadikkal Velu Kurup , popularly known as O. N. V. Kurup or simply O. N. V., is a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won Jnanpith Award,the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He is considered one of the finest living lyrical poets in India. O. N....
  
  , Indian
  Indian poetry
  Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
  
  , Malayalam
  Malayalam poetry
  There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...
  
   language
• June 13 – Jay Macpherson
  Jay Macpherson
  Jean Jay Macpherson is a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls her "a member of 'the mythopoeic school of poetry,' who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic."-Life:Jay Macpherson was born in London,...
  
  , Canadian
  Canadian poetry
  - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
  
   lyric
  Lyric poetry
  Lyric poetry is a genre of poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings. In the ancient world, lyric poems were those which were sung to the lyre. Lyric poems do not have to rhyme, and today do not need to be set to music or a beat...
  
   poet
  Poet
  A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
  
   and scholar; she is a member of the "mythopoeic
  Mythopoeic literature
  Mythopoeia is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where a fictional mythology is created by the writer of prose or other fiction. This meaning of the word mythopoeia follows its use by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s...
  
   school of poetry"
• June 21 – Patricia Goedicke
  Patricia Goedicke
  Patricia Goedicke was an American poet.Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury...
  
  , poet
• July 28 – Alan Brownjohn
  Alan Brownjohn
  Alan Charles Brownjohn FRSL is an English poet and novelist.He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer...
  
  , English
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   poet and novelist
• December 15 – Shuntarō Tanikawa
  Shuntaro Tanikawa
  is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature...
  
   谷川 俊太郎, Japanese
  Japanese poetry
  Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
  
   poet and translator (surname: Tanikawa)

• Also:
  • P'Bitek, African poet
  • Sonja Dunn
  • Makoto Ooka
    Makoto Ooka
    is a Japanese poet and literary critic.Ooka's poetry column was published without a break seven days a week for more than 20 years on the front page of Asahi Shimbun, which is Japan's leading national newspaper.-Notes:...
    
     大岡信, Japanese
    Japanese poetry
    Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
    
     poet and literary critic
  • Tomas Tranströmer
    Tomas Tranströmer
    Tomas Gösta Tranströmer is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. Tranströmer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War...
    
    , Swedish writer, poet and translator

Deaths

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

• March 16 – Harold Edward Monro, 54, British
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
   poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop
  Poetry Bookshop
  The Poetry Bookshop operated at 35 Devonshire Street in the Bloomsbury district of central London, from 1913 to 1926. It was the brainchild of Harold Monro, and was supported by his moderate income....
  
   in London
• April 2 – Katharine Tynan
  Katharine Tynan
  Katharine Tynan was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson...
  
  , 70 (born 1861
  1861 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold,...
  
  ), Irish
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   poet, novelist and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"
• April 10 – Khalil Gibran
  Khalil Gibran
  Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...
  
  , 48, poet artist, and writer born in Lebanon who spent much of his productive life in the United States
• October 5 – Christopher Brennan
  Christopher Brennan
  Christopher John Brennan was an Australian poet and scholar.-Biography:Brennan was born in Sydney, to Christopher Brennan , a brewer, and his wife Mary Ann , née Carroll, both Irish immigrants....
  
  , 61, Australian poet
• December 5 – Vachel Lindsay
  Vachel Lindsay
  Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted...
  
   (Nicholas Vachel Lindsay), 42 (born 1879
  1879 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation...
  
  , American poet and early advocate of jazz poetry
  Jazz poetry
  Jazz poetry is poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation". During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of rhythm and style; among these were Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and E. E. Cummings...
  
  , a suicide by poison

• Also:
  • Gamaliel Bradford (poet)
  • Puran Singh
    Puran Singh
    Puran Singh was a Punjabi poet. He composed three volumes of Punjabi poetry: Khule Maidan in 1923, Khule Ghund 1923, and Khule Asmani Rang in 1926. His poetry was composed in free verse and explored the experience of villagers, peasants, and the poor.-References: *...
    
     (born 1881
    1881 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society-Canada:...
    
    ), Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
    
    , writing Indian poetry in English
    Indian Poetry in English
    Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...
    
    

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• New Objectivity
  New Objectivity
  The New Objectivity is a term used to characterize the attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it...
  
   in German literature and art
• Oberiu
  Oberiu
  OBERIU was a short-lived avant-garde collective of Russian Futurist writers, musicians, and artists in the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  movement in Russian art and poetry