1926 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Works published

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.
Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.
E. J. Pratt, Titans, Toronto: Macmillan.
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.
Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse].

India">Indian poetry">India in English">Indian poetry in English">in English

Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems,The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom
Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
Edmund Blunden, English Poems
W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song
Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Scots language poet:⁵
* A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
* Penny Wheep
Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead
Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
Vita Sackville-West, The Land
Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United KingdomThe Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Humbert Wolfe:
* Humoresque
* News of the Devil
W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies, volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan

United States">American poetry">United States

Hart Crane, White Buildings
Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row
E. E. Cummings, is 5
John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
Vachel Lindsay:
* Going to the Stars
* The Candle in the Cabin
Amy Lowell, East Wind
Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem
John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems
Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems
Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon
Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems
Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Other in English

W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology
Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism
Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
* Dessous d'une vie
* Capitale de la douleur ; the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France
Pierre Jean Jouve:
* Mystérieuses Noces
* ''Nouvelles Noces''

Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

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

Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language
Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature"
Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4, some poems, short stories and essays on humor
S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil

Spanish language

Peru">Peruvian poetry">Peru

Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas
Alejandro Peralta, Ande
Enrique Peña Barrenechea, ''El aroma en la sombra''

Other in Spanish

Rafael Alberti, La amante ; Spain
Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico
Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí, Spain
Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico

Other languages

Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah, Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
Tin Ujević, Kolajna, Croatian

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, ''What's O'Clock''

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 5 - W. D. Snodgrass, American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
February 4 - Albert Saijo, Japanese-American poet
February 18 - A. R. Ammons, American author and poet
February 25 - Russell Atkins, African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
March 3 - James Merrill, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
March 22 - Alastair Reid, Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
April 18 - Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
May 4 - Allen Mandelbaum, American poet and translator
May 21 - Robert Creeley, American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 26 - Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, American Beat poet
June 5 - David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author
June 27 - Frank O'Hara, American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
June 29 - James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet
July 7 - Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Indian Urdu poet
July 17 - Nikos Karouzos, Greek poet
July 18 - Elizabeth Jennings, English poet
August 15 - Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright
September 1 - James Reaney, Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
November 5 - John Berger, English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
November 11 - José Manuel Caballero Spanish poet and novelist
November 23 - Christopher Logue, English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
November 24 - Paul Blackburn, American poet
December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
December 26 - Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu, Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 10 - Eino Leino, 47, Finnish poet and journalist
January 20 - Charles Montagu Doughty, 82, English poet, writer and traveller
April 7 - Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41, Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
May 30 - Perceval Gibbon, 46, Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
June 15 - Francis Joseph Sherman, 55, Canadian poet
July 19 - Ada Cambridge, 81, English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
August 1 - Israel Zangwill, 62, English writer and poet
October 9 - Helena Nyblom, 82, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
November 17 - George Sterling, 56, American poet
December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, German poet, from leukemia