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// Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library. ...
// H. E. Monro edits The Poetry Review, journal of the Poetry Recital Society Harriet Munroe founds Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); in 1912 she described its policy this way: Ezra Pound, during a meeting with his one-time fiancee Hilda Doolittle in...
// The poem Into Battle is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle. ...
// July 14 â At the first public soiree at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, Hugo Ball recited the first Dada manifesto (see text). ...
// The Egoist Wilfred Owen, a soldier in World War I, writes Dulce et Decorum Est (published posthumously in 1921). ...
See also: 1910 in literature, other events of 1911, 1912 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1913 in literature, other events of 1914, 1915 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1915 in literature, other events of 1916, 1917 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
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These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ...
// Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ...
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
// First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ...
// Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ...
The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ...
This page indexes the individual years pages. ...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...
Events
The cover of the first edition of BLAST Download high resolution version (600x774, 79 KB)The cover of the first edition of BLAST, by Wyndham Lewis and friends. ...
Download high resolution version (600x774, 79 KB)The cover of the first edition of BLAST, by Wyndham Lewis and friends. ...
The Little Review was a American literary magazine founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson which published modernist American and English writers between 1914 and 1929, most famously James Joyces Ulysses. ...
Margaret Caroline Anderson [1] [2] (November 24, 1886 - October 18, 1973) was founder and editor of the celebrated literary magazine The Little Review, which published an extraordinary collection of modern American and English writers between 1914 and 1929. ...
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ...
Blast can be Look up blast in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Ezra Pound, who gave Vorticism its name and contributed to Blast. ...
The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 â 13 December 1960) was an English feminist activist, an editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings. ...
The New Freewoman was a monthly London literary magazine owned by Dora Marsden and edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver. ...
// The Egoist, goes defunct Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists. ...
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 â 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...
Works published - Anna Akhmatova, The Rosary, her second collection, by this time there are thousands of women composing their poems "after Akhmatova"; the book becomes so popular in Russia that a "parlor game based upon the book was even invented. One person would recite a line of poetry and the next person would try to recite the next, until the entire book was recited."[1]
- Robert Frost, North of Boston
- Thomas Hardy, Satires of Circumstance
- Ezra Pound, editor, Des Imagistes: An Anthology, the first anthology of the Imagism movement; published by the Poetry Bookshop in London and issued in America both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical The Glebe for February 1914 (issue #5)
- Joyce Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems, including "Trees"
- Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" in Poetry magazine
- W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities
Akhmatova in the 1920s Anna Akhmatova (Russian: , real name ÐÌнна ÐндÑеÌевна ÐоÑеÌнко) (June 23, 1889 [O.S. June 11] â March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of St Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry in the course of half a century. ...
Robert Frost (1941) Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 â January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ...
Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 â 11 January 1928) â an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement â delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ...
Ezra Pound in 1913. ...
Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ...
The Poetry Bookshop, which ran in Bloomsbury, London, from 1913 to 1926, was the brainchild of Harold Monro, and was supported by his moderate income. ...
The Glebe was a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray from 1913 to 1914. ...
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) â 30 July 1918 near Seringes, France) was an American journalist and poet; his best-known work is a poem entitled Trees (1913) which was first published in a collection entitled Trees and Other Poems in 1914. ...
Carl Sandburg in 1955 Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 â July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. ...
Poetry, published in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. ...
A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ...
Awards and honors Births
Birthplace of Dylan Thomas - February 24 — Weldon Kees (missing and presumed dead, 1955), American poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, composer and artist.
- March 31 — Octavio Paz (died 1998) Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990
- May 6 — Randall Jarrell, American poet and writer
- June 26 — Laurie Lee
- October 27 — Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 112 KB) Summary From Geograph: [1] Taken by Hywel Williams - © Copyright Hywel Williams and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 112 KB) Summary From Geograph: [1] Taken by Hywel Williams - © Copyright Hywel Williams and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. ...
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914- presumed dead July 18, 1955) was an American poet, critic, novelist and short story writer. ...
March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ...
Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and 1990 Nobel Prize winner for literature Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 â April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
// Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, (Knopf) ; named a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); named a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review Mark Strand, Blizzard of One...
Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ...
// Allen Ginsberg crowned Majelis King in Prague on May Day Maya Angelou, I Shall Not be Moved Derek Walcott, Omeros C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Adamson, The Clean Dark Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Adamson, The Clean Dark Mary Gilmore Prize: Kristopher Rassemussen - In the Name of...
May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ...
Photograph of Jarrell in 1956 Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 - October 15, 1965), was a United States author, writer and poet. ...
June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ...
Laurie Lee, Laurence Edward Alan Lee (June 26, 1914 - May 13, 1997), was a poet and novelist from the village of Slad, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. ...
October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ...
Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 â November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ...
Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...
Deaths Image File history File linksMetadata Egoist1914_72. ...
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The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce. ...
July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ...
Charlotte Forten Bridges Grimké (17 August 1837â1914) was an American antislavery activist, poet, educator and abolitionist. ...
October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (282nd in leap years). ...
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was an American poet. ...
November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ...
Georg Trakl A poem by Trakl inscribed on a plaque in Mirabell Garden, Salzburg. ...
Notes - ^ [1]Debka, Jill, "Akhmatova: Biographical/Historical Overview" short biographical sketch of Akhmatova, accessed December 8, 2006
December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
This page indexes the individual year in poetry, the decade in poetry and the century in poetry pages. ...
This is a list of poetry groups and movements that have pages in Wikipedia. ...
The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
Akhmatova Orphans (ÐÑ
маÑовÑкие ÑиÑоÑÑ) were a group of Russian poets from Saint Petersburg. ...
The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...
// General A 2005 international exhibition, Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, details which are available with the Archives of Whitechapel Art Gallery UK Recently redeveloped African and Asian Visual Arts Archive ( AAVAA) currently located at University of East London (UEL). ...
The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ...
The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetic movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. ...
The British Army presence in Egypt in World War II had as a side-effect the concentration of a group of Cairo poets. ...
Cavalier poets is a broad description of a school of poets, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. ...
Chhayavaad refers to the romantic upsurge in the Hindi literature particularly poetry, which began in early 19th century. ...
Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750). ...
Confessionalism is a label formally applied to a style of American poetry which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
Créolité is a literary movement first developed in the 1980s by Martinican writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. ...
Cyclic Poets are epic poets who followed Homer and wrote poems and songs about the Trojan war. ...
Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...
Deep image is a term coined by Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly in the second issue of Trobar, and was used to describe poetry written by him and by Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski and Clayton Eshleman. ...
The Della Cruscans were a set of English sentimental poetasters, the leaders of them hailing from Florence, that appeared in England towards the close of the 18th century, and that for a time imposed on many by their extravagant panegyrics of one another, the founder of the set being one...
Dolce Stil Novo (Italian for The Sweet New Style) is the name given to the most important literary movement of 13th century Italy. ...
The Dymock poets were a literary group of the early 20th century, who made their home in the Gloucestershire village of Dymock. ...
A group of Ecuadorian poets born between 1905 and 1920 representing the neosymbolism or lyrical vanguard movement. ...
Flarf Poetry is an avant garde, modernist poetry movement of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. ...
The Free Academy was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel. ...
The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesee around 1920. ...
Garip (Turkish: strange or peculiar) was a group of Turkish poets. ...
// Background The Generation of 98 (also called Generation of 1898 or, in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898). ...
The Generation of 27 (Spanish Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. ...
The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh. ...
The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ...
Philip Hobsbaum (born 29 June 1932) is an academic, poet and critic. ...
The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City after World War I. Literary historians and academics have yet to reach a consensus as to when the period...
The Harvard Aesthetes is a name given to a group of poets attending Harvard University in a period roughly 1912-1919. ...
Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ...
The Jindyworobak Movement was a nationalistic Australian literary movement whose white members sought to promote indigenous Australian ideas and customs, particularly in poetry. ...
Kimo is a post-Haiku poetic form , consisting of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables. ...
The Lake Poets all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. ...
The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s; its central figures are all actively writing, teaching, and performing...
Martian poetry. ...
The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them. ...
The Misty Poets are a group of Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution. ...
Mountebanks ...
The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest. ...
Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and Léon Damas. ...
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. ...
The New Apocalyptics were a poetry grouping in the UK in the 1940s, taking their name from the anthology The New Apocalypse (1939), which was edited by J. F. Hendry (1912-1986) and Henry Treece. ...
New Formalism is a late-twentieth and early twenty-first century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse. ...
The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters and musicians active in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in New York City. ...
The âNineties Poetsâ in Jordan is a label that refers to a group of poets who appeared in the late 1980âs and early 1990âs. ...
William Carlos Williams, who was the only poet to be published as both an Objectivist and an Imagist The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. ...
Others was a group of avante-garde artists in New York formed after World War I. Poet Alfred Kreymborg and artist Man Ray founded the group, centered in Ridgefield, NJ. Through the group, American writers and artists came into contact and found collaboration with emigree artists who had fled from...
The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ...
The Pléiade was a group of 16th-century French poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. ...
The Rhymers Club was a group of London-based poets, founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. ...
Founded in 1922 as the Rochester, NY chapter of the Poetry Society of America, Rochester Poets is the areas oldest, ongoing literary organization. ...
The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centred around that city and which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetic avant-garde. ...
The Scottish version of modernism, the Scottish literary renaissance was begun by Hugh MacDiarmid in the 1920s when he abandoned his English language poetry and began to write in Lallans. ...
In a literary context, the term Sicilian School identifies a small community of Sicilian, and to a lesser extent, mainland Italian poets gathered around Frederick II, most of them belonging to his court, the Magna Curia. ...
The phrase Sons of Ben is a mildly problematic term applied to followers of Benamor the Great. ...
The Southern Agrarians or Vanderbilt Agrarians were a group of 12 American Traditionalist writers and poets from the Southern United States who joined together to publish the Agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays entitled Ill Take My Stand in 1930. ...
The term spasmodic, certainly with some derogatory as well as humorous intention, was applied by William Edmonstoune Aytoun to a group of British poets of the Victorian era. ...
Poezja Åpiewana (meaning sung poetry in Polish) is a broad and inprecise music genre, used mostly in Poland to describe songs consisting of a poem (most often a ballad) and music written specially for that text. ...
Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a movement stating that the liberation of our mind, and subsequently the liberation of the individual self and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind to the attainment of a dream-like state different from, or ultimately âtruer...
The Uranians were a relatively obscure group of pederastic poets who flourished between 1870 and 1930, particularly among the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. ...
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