1913 in poetry

Events

• January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March issue also contains Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that this London-based movement has its first readership in the United States.
• January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London. American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet here.
• June – The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication, but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owns it; Rebecca West edits it at first, then Ezra Pound takes over as editor; it succeeds The Freewoman and will be succeeded by The Egoist.
• June 2 – English Poet Laureate Alfred Austin dies, succeeded by Robert Bridges on July 17.
• September – Founding of The Glebe, an American literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues. Ezra Pound, having heard about the magazine from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos, sends Kreymborg the manuscript of Des Imagistes in the summer and this famous first anthology of Imagism is published as the fifth issue of The Glebe.
• September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "" is published in Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out.
• November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• December 15 – Ezra Pound writes to James Joyce requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist. Pound arrived in London by September to meet W. B. Yeats, whom he considers "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from this November until 1916, the two men winter in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet.
• Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name "Generation of '98" this year, referring to the novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War and alluding to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat in that war. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.
• Wallace Stevens and his wife, Elsie, rent a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph Weinman, who makes a bust of Elsie, whose image is used on the artist's 1916–1945 Mercury dime design.
• Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works, restoring his work to literary prominence.

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Tom MacInnes, The Rhymes of a Rounder
• Marjorie Pickthall, The Drift of Pinions
• Varna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems
• Albert D. Watson, ''Love and the Universe, the Immortals and Other Poems''

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Laurence Binyon, Auguries
• Joseph Campbell, Irishry
• W. H. Davies, Foliage
• Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes
• John Drinkwater, Cromwell, and Other Poems
• Radclyffe Hall, Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems
• D. H. Lawrence, Love Poems and Others
• Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems, English poet living at this time in the United States
• Winifred Mary Letts, Songs from Leinster, English-born poet resident in Ireland
• John Masefield, Dauber
• Alfred Noyes, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
• Cecil Roberts, Phyllistrata
• George William Russell, Collected Poems
• Siegfried Sassoon, The Daffodil Murderer
• Dora Sigerson, Madge Linsey, and Other Poems
• J. C. Squire, The Three Hills, and Other Poems
• Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in English
• Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom
• W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States">American poetry">United States

• Witter Bynner, Tiger
• Robert Frost, A Boy's Will
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Complete Poems, published posthumously
• John Gould Fletcher:
• * Fire and Wine
• * Fool's Gold
• * The Book of Nature
• * The Dominant City
• * Visions of the Evening
• Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" first appears in the August issue of Poetry magazine, it was later included in Trees and Other Poems 1914
• Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, English poet living at this time in the United States
• Vachel Lindsay, General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems
• John Hall Wheelock, Love and Liberation
• William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom.

Other in English

• Arthur Henry Adams, Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams, Australia
• Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in English
• Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• E. W. Cole, editor, Backblock Ballads and other Verses, front cover illustration by David Low; including a "Glossary: for the use of the thoroughly genteel", four sections of "The Sentimental Bloke" and "The Austral-aise", both by C. J. Dennis, Australian anthology

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Alcools: Poemes 1898–1913, edited by Tristan Tzara; France
• Blaise Cendrars, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, a collaborative artists' book with near abstract pochoir print by Sonia Delaunay-Terk
• Francis Jammes, Feuilles dans le vent
• Pierre Jean Jouve, Parler
• Valery Larbaud, Les Poésies de A. O. Barnabooth
• Charles Péguy, ''Ève''

Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Assamese">Assamese poetry">Assamese language

• Chandra Kumar Agarwala, Pratima
• Hiteshwar Bar Barua, Tirotav Atma Balidan Kavya, narrative poem about the sacrifice of Jaymoti Kunwari for the sake of her husband, Gadadhar Singha, ruler of Assam from 1681 to 1696
• Lakshminath Bezbarua, Kadam Kali, inspired by the ballads of Assam

Bengali">Bengali poetry">Bengali language

• Adipudi Somanatharavu, translator, Gitanjali Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore translated into Telugu
• Chittaranjan Das, Sagar Sangit, Bengali language, short verses, intensely religious, later translated into English by Sri Aurobindo
• Pramatha Chaudhuri, Sanet Pancasat, India, Bengali language

Indian poetry in other languages

• K. C. Kesava Pillai, Kesaviyam, India, Malayalam language
• Kilabhai Ghansyam, Meghdut, translation into Gujarati from the original Sanskrit of Meghudutam by Kalidasa
• Mohammad Abdul Majid, Caman-i-benazir, Urdu language
• Raja Shyama Kumar Tagore, Jarmani Kavyam, Sanskrit language, a poem on Germany
• Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, Umakeralam, a mahakavya, a type of Indian epic poem, India, Malayalam language
• Vakil Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Om-nama, Kashmiri language

Other languages

• Delmira Agustini, Los cálices vacíos, pórtico de Rubén Darío, Uruguay
• Stefan George, Der Stern des Bundes, Germany
• Marie Heiberg, Luule, Estonia
• Emmy Hennings, Äthergedichte, Germany
• Vicente Huidobro, Canciones en la noche, Chile
• Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard, Visions gaspésiennes, French language Canada
• Lionel Léveillé, La claire fontaine, French language Canada
• Georg Trakl, Gedichte, Austrian published in Germany
• Nik Welter, Hochofen, Luxembourg published in Germany
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, I , Russia

Births

• January 1 – Norman Rosten, American poet, playwright and novelist
• January 19 – Rex Ingamells, Australian
• February 10 – Charles Henri Ford, American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist
• February 26 – George Barker, English poet and author
• February 28 – Virginia Hamilton Adair,, American poet
• March 4 – Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子, poet who survives the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust and became known for her poems about her city
• March 16 – Carmelo Arden Quin,, Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement "Madi"
• March 29 – R. S. Thomas, Anglo-Welsh poet
• May 6 – Douglas Stewart, Australian
• June 24 – Vincent Ferrini, American writer and poet
• June 26 – Aimé Césaire, Martinican Francophone poet, writer and politician
• July 10 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish Catalan
• July 30 – John Blight, Australian
• August 4 – Robert Hayden, American poet, essayist, educator and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
• September 16 – Dinesh Das, Indian, Bengali-language
• September 25 – Seaforth Mackenzie, Australian
• November 10 – Karl Shapiro died 2000), American
• December 7 – Kersti Merilaas, born Eugenia Moorberg, Estonian
• December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short-story writer
• December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and political activist
• December 27 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist
• Also:
• * Appan M. A., Indian, Malayalam-language
• * James Boughton, American poet
• * Flexmore Hudson, Australian
• * V. R. Kant, Indian, Marathi-language
• * Bhatt Damodar Kesavaji, pen name Sudhansu, Indian, Gujarati-language
• * Devandas Kishinani, "Azad", Indian, Sindhi-language
• * Ananta Pattanayak, Indian, Oriya-language
• * Bal Krisna Rav, Indian, Hindi-language poet, editor and translator; edited the monthly ' 'Kadambini' '
• * Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, "Khadim", Indian, Sindhi-language poet and scholar
• * Upendra Thakur, "Mohan", Indian, Oriya-language

Deaths

• February 17 – Joaquin Miller, American "Poet of the Sierras"
• March 7 – Pauline Johnson, also known as "E. Payuline Johnson" and "Tekahionwake", Canadian known for poems and performances celebrating her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings"
• May 17 – Dwijendralal Ray, Indian, Bengali-language poet, playwright and musician known primarily for patriotic plays and songs as well as Hindu devotional lyrics
• June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• June 29 – Martina Swafford, American poet
• July 30 – Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō, Meiji period tanka poet and novelist
• August 1 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian
• September 2 – Lucy H. Washington, American poet and social reformer
• December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian
• December 5 – Ferdinand Dugué, French poet and playwright
• Also:
• * Bhuban Chandra Barua pen name "Umesh Chandra Barua",, Indian, Assamese-language poet
• * Kunjikuttan Thampuran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Kodungalloor School of poetry

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore, partly for Gitanjali
• Newdigate Prize: Roy Ridley, Oxford
• Robert Bridges becomes British Poet Laureate