1929 in poetry

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Events

April 29 – In the course of a domestic argument in London between poets and writers Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Geoffrey Phibbs and Graves's wife Nancy Nicholson, Riding and Graves jump from windows, she sustaining life-threatening injuries. Later this year, Graves and Riding go to live together in Majorca. Graves's autobiography Good-Bye to All That is published this year, also.The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication.The Dial ceases publication.

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

Arthur Bourinot, Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children.
Frederick George Scott, New Poems.

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

Raul De Loyola Furtado, The Desperrado, London: Chapman and Hall; Indian poet writing in English and published in the United Kingdom
Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry, Allahabad: Indian Press,, poetry anthology

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes", London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:
Edmund Blunden, Near and Far
Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty
W. H. Davies, Ambition, and Other Poems
Cecil Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem
T. S. Eliot:
* Animula
* "Som de l'escalina" was published in the Autumn, 1929 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.
Aldous Huxley, Arabia Infelix, and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
Louis MacNeice, Blind Fireworks
Charlotte Mew, The Rambling Sailor
William Plomer, The Family Tree
I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement
T. H. White, Loved Helen, and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* A Packet for Ezra Pound
* ''The Winding Stair''

United States">American poetry">United States

Léonie Adams, High Falcon
Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems
Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A Book
Louise Bogan, Dark Summer
Witter Bynner, Indian Earth
James Branch Cabell, Sonnets from Antan
Malcolm Cowley, Blue Juniata
Countee Cullen, The Black Christ
Emily Dickinson, Further Poems, 150 recently discovered poems; Little, Brown, & Company
Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", Red Roses for Bronze
Kenneth Fearing, Angel Arms
Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other Poems
Vachel Lindsay, Every Soul is a Circus
Edgar Lee Masters, The Fate of the Jury
Lola Ridge, Firehead
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Cavender's House
E. B. White, The Lady is Cold
Edmund Wilson, Poets, Farewell
Elinor Wylie, ''Angels and Earthly Creatures''

Other in English

Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes", London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:
Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New ZealandVoices from Summerland, the first major anthology of Jamaican poetry
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* A Packet for Ezra Pound
* ''The Winding Stair''

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

Louis Aragon, La Grande Gaite
Jacques Audiberti, L'Empire et la Trappe, the author's first book of poems; winner of the Prix Mallarme
Paul Éluard, L'Amour la poésie
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Poèmes
Alphonse Métérié, Petit Maroc
Henri Michaux:
* Ecuador, poetry and prose
* Mes Proprietés, may be considered prose poems
Pierre Reverdy, Sources du vent
J. Slauerhoff, Fleurs de Marécage'', Dutch poet writing in French, published in Belgium

Indian">Indian poetry">Indian 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:

Hindi">Hindi poetry">Hindi

Jagannathdas Ratnakar, Uddhava Satak, written in Brajabhasa in the Bhramaragit tradition of Krishna Bhakti verse; Hindi
Nirala Suryakant Tripathi, Parimal, Hindi poems influenced by Chayavadi sensibility; includes "Juhi Ki Kali", a well-known poem in Hindi; also includes "Vidhava" and "Badal Rag"
Ram Kumar Varma, Cittaur Ki Cita, Hindi-language historical poem on the glory of the Rajputs written in the Chayavadi style
Ram Naresh Tripathi, Svapna, Hindi epic poem on women and patriotism
Ramachandra Shukla, Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas, one of the earliest and most influential histories of Hindi literature; scholarship
Uday Shankar Bhatta, Takasila, Hindi epic on the ancient glory of the city of Takshasila

Malayalam">Malayalam poetry">Malayalam

Narayana Panikkar, Kerala Bhasa Sahitya Caritram, literary history in seven volumes, published from this year to 1951; won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature in 1955; scholarship
P. K. Narayana Pillai, Tucattezhuttaccan, a study, in Malayalam of 16th-century poet Ezhuttacchan; criticism
Ullur Paramesvara Iyer:
* Pingala, a well known '
* Karnabhusanam, on the episode in the Mahabharata in which Karna gives away his protective ' and to Indra, disguised as a brahman

Urdu">Urdu poetry">Urdu

Hafiz Jalandhari, Shahnamah-yi Islam, a history of the Islamic Empire in four volumes of verse, published from this year to 1947
Mohammad Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara
Dr. Rafiq Hussain and Amar Nath Jha, Urdu ghazal ki nashv o numa, treatise on the evolution of the Urdu ghazal

Other Indian languages

Devulappali Krishna Shastri, written in Telugu:
* Pravasamu, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
* Urvasi, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
Dharmeshvari Devi Baruani, Phular Sarai, Assamese
L. Kamal Singh, Lei pareng, Manipuri lyrics, many focusing on love for nature and solitude; academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das has called the work a landmark in Manipuri literature with which "modern Manipuri poetry began"
Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Alvarkal Kalanilai, literary history of the 12 Alvars, saint poets of the Vaishnava sect, with an evaluation of their works as influenced by various factors; a Tamil-language work
Jasimuddin, Naksikathar Math, narrative poem in Bengali about a tragic love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl; a companion volume to Rakhali 1930 and Dhankhet 1932
R. Narasimhachar, Karnataka Kavi Carite, Volume 3 of a three-volume history of Kannada literature, and written in that language ; scholarship
Rabinidrath Thakur, Mahuya, primarily live poems in Bengali
U. V. Swaminatha Ayyar, Cankattamilum Pirkalattamilum, essays summarizing 10 lectures delivered at Madras University in 1927 on Sangam literature and post-Sangam literature
Vakil Ahmed Shah Qureshi, Qissa Sulaiman O Bilqis, sufistic narrative poem in Kashmiri
Zeb-un-Nissa, Diwan-i-Makhfi, written in Persian

Spanish language

Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

Rafael Alberti:
* Cal y canto
* Sobre los ángeles
Pedro Salinas, Seguro Azar
José Moreno Villa, ''Jacinta la pelirroja''

American poetry|Latin America]]

José María Eguren, Poesías, Peru
Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas, Peru

Other languages

Alfred Desrochers, A l'ombre d'Orford, philosophical verse and poetry influenced by le terroir movement, French language, Canada
Halina Konopacka, Któregoś dnia, Poland
Mikhail Kuzmin, The Trout Breaks the Ice, Russian language, Soviet Union
Peider Lansel, Il vegl chalamêr, Romansh language, Switzerland
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to military academy cadet Franz Xaver Kappus from 1902 to 1908, published by Kappus and Insel Verlag this year; Germany

Awards and honors

United States">American poetry">United States

Births

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

January 9 - Heiner Müller, German
January 11 - Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic
January 12 - Turner Cassity, American
February 16 - Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet, member of The Group, recipient of Medal of the Order of Australia
February 28 - John Montague, American-born Irish
March 6 - Günter Kunert, German
April 2 - Edward Dorn, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American poet
June 2 - Robert Dana, American, poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004 to 2008
June 11 - George Garrett, American poet and novelist
July 13 - Teresa Bogusławska, Polish poet and resistance worker
July 15 - Rhoda Bulter, Scottish poet
July 22 - U. A. Fanthorpe, born Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English
August 5 - Al Alvarez, English poet, writer, editor and critic
August 11 - Geeta Parikh, Gujarati
August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
August 29 - Thom Gunn, English-born poet
September 26 - Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
October 13 - Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
October 21 - Donald Finkel, American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance Urdang
October 23 - Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
October 25 - Peter Rühmkorf, German writer and poet
October 26 - Dane Zajc, Slovenian poet
October 28 - John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
November 11 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German poet and essayist
December 9 - Don Maclennan, English-born South African poet, critic and academic

Deaths

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

February 27 - Libbie C. Riley Baer, American patriotic poet
March 8 - Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45, British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers
March 28 - Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"
June 8 - Bliss Carman, 68, Canadian poet
July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet and dramatist
October - Arno Holz, 66, German Naturalist poet and dramatist
November 3 - Olav Aukrust, 46, Norwegian poet and teacher