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Events

• T.S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank.
• January — Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to stay there permanently after a brief stay the year before.^[1]
• An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940

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Works published

• Robert Bridges, The Tapestry: Poems and New Verse which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
• E. E. Cummings, & and XLI Poems
• Hilda Doolittle, Collected Poems of H.D.
• T.S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
• Thomas Hardy, Human Shows
• Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos
• J.R.R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• W.B. Yeats, A Vision

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Awards

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 - April 6, 1935) was an American poet, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. ...

Births

• February 8 — Francis Webb, Australian poet
• February 27 — Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
• March 14 — John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
• April 18 — Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
• August 12 — Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
• October 28 — Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scots poet, writer, artist — and gardener
• December 10 — Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
• date not known:
  • Philip Booth, American poet
  • Theodore Enslim
  • Maxine Kumin, American poet and author
  • Gerald Stern, American poet

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Deaths

• January 31 — George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
• May 12 — Amy Lowell, 51, American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
• June 17 — Arthur Christopher Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
• December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet
• date not known — Alfred Denis Godley

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Notes

1. ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X

See also

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