1925 in poetry

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Events

• January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before.[1]
• February 11 – Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana".[2] [3] [4][5]
• February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.[6]
• November 21 – First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
• December 28 – Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (b. 1895) writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья), in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad.
• T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishing house of Faber and Gwyer.
• An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940.

Works published

Canada

• Arthur Bourinot, Pattering Feet: A book of childhood verses.^[citation needed]
• Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Duncan Campbell Scott ed. Posthumously published—not to be confused with Lampman's 1895 book of the same name.[7]
• Marjorie Pickthall:
  • Little Songs (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)
  • The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart).[8]
• E. J. Pratt, The Witches' Brew, Toronto: Macmillan.[9]
• Charles G. D. Roberts. The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
• Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Seven Poems. private.
• Seranus, Songs of Love and Labor (Toronto: Author).[10]

India in English

• Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems (Poetry in English), Allahabad: The Indian Press [11]
• M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute (Poetry in English), Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works [11]

United Kingdom

• Edmund Blunden, Masks of Time[12]
• Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years[12]
• Robert Bridges:
  • New Verse Written in 1921[12] which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
  • The Tapestry: Poems
• W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet[12]
• Cecil Day-Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems[12]
• T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
• 'Gawain Poet' (14th century), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon
• Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose[12]
• Graham Greene, Babbling April[12]
• Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime[12]
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw[12]
• Edwin Muir, First Poems[12]
• Edith Sitwell, Troy Park[12]
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier[12]
• Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess[12]
• W. B. Yeats, A Vision[12]

United States

• Léonie Adams, Those Not Elect[13]
• Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams[13]
• Stephen Vincent Benét, Tiger Joy[13]
• Countee Cullen:
  • On These I Stand, Harper & Row[14]
  • Color[13]
• E. E. Cummings:
  • &[13] (self-published)
  • XLI Poems[13]
• Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock[13]
• John Gould Fletcher, Parables[13]
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Collected Poems of H.D.
• Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden[13]
• Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion[13]
• William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives[13]
• Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth[13]
• Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, Paris[15]
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt[13]
• Eli Siegel, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" [16]
• Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides[13]

Other in English

• W. B. Yeats, A Vision, Ireland

Works published in other languages

France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le cortege priapique, posthumously published (died 1918)[17]
• Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpétuel[18]
• Antonin Artaud:
  • L'ombilic des limbes ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française[19]
  • Le Pese-nerfs[19]
• André Breton, Clair de terre[18]
• Paul Claudel, Feuilles de saints
• Max Jacob, Les Penitants en maillots roses[18]
• Francis Jammes:
  • Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions Spes[20]
  • Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this year[20]
• Raymond Radiguet, Les Joues en feu, published posthumously (author died this year)[21]
• Pierre Reverdy, Grande Nature[18]
• Jules Supervielle, Gravitations[18]
• Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye

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

• Jayashankar Prasad, Asu, Chayavadi poem on love and beauty[22]
• Maithilisharan Gupta, Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legend[22]
• Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, Achuta, verses on social and political problems[22]

Telugu

• Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krishna Paksham, a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature[22]
• Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Yenki Patalu[23] (another source spells the title as Enki patalu;[22] "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature;[23] a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava[22] "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri")[23]
• Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Jada Kucculu, lyrics
• Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Kinnerasani patalu (also rendered Kinnera Sani Patalu; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volume[22]

Other Indian languages

• Altaf Husain Hali, Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors[22]
• Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)[24]
• Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-language[22]
• Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems[22]
• Rabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
• Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, Assamese[22]
• Syed jalal, Mahakmah-yi Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, Hali Ki inshapardazi par, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali[22]
• D. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem[22]
• Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos[22]

Spanish language

• Rafael Alberti, Marinero en tierra ("Sailor on Land"); Spain[25]
• Rafael Méndez Dorich, Sensacionario (Buenos Aires), Peruvian poet published in Argentina[26]
• José Gorostiza, Canciones para cantar en las barcas ("Songs to Sing on Boats"), Mexico
• Salvador Novo, XX Poemas ("20 Poems"), Mexico
• Miguel de Unamuno, De Fuerteventura a París ("From Fuerteventura to Paris"), Spain[25]

Other languages

• Sophus Claussen, Heroica, including Atomernes Oprør ("Revolt of the Atoms"), Denmark[27]
• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Eymah Gedolah Ve-Yareah ("A Great Fear and the Moon"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
• Lionel Léveillé, Chante, rossignol, chante, French language, Canada[28]
• Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; Italy[29]

Awards and honors

• Dial Award: E.E. Cummings
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 14 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威) (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
• January 20 – Jamiluddin Aali جمیل الدین عالی (died 2015), Indian-born Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar
• February 8 – Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
• February 20 – Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (died 2023), Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacher
• February 22 – Gerald Stern (died 2022), American
• February 27 – Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
• March 10 – Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
• March 13 – Inge Müller (died 1966) East German
• March 14 – John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
• March 25 – Theodore Enslin (died 2011), American
• April 18 – Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
• June 6 – Maxine Kumin (died 2014), American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982
• July 4 – Ciril Zlobec (died 2018), Slovene poet and politician
• August 1 – Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
• August 12 – Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
• August 16 – Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet and philologist[30]
• September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004[31]
• October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
• October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
• November 15 – Heinz Piontek (died 2003), German[32]
• November 27 – Munier Choudhury (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
• December 10 – Carolyn Kizer (died 2014), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
• December 12 – Laurence Lerner (died 2016), South African-born poet and academic

Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
• February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen (木下利玄), pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886), Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen)
• February 22 – Nina Salaman, 47 (born 1877), English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry; cancer
• May 12 – Amy Lowell, 51 (born 1874), American poet of the imagist school; posthumously wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
• June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, 54 (born 1870), French poet
• June 17 – A. C. Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
• June 27 – A. D. Godley, 69, Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
• September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, 81 (born 1844) German poet and librettist
• October 27 – Darrell Figgis, 43 (born 1882), Irish poet and nationalist; suicide
• December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• New Objectivity in German literature and art

Notes

1. Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X
2. Editors' Note, The Nation Vol. 120, No. 3110, page 148 (11 February 1925)
3. Mark Van Doren in Prize Poems, 1913-1929 page 19 (NY: Charles Boni, 1930): "The Nation prize ... was always a spectacle to be looked forward to, and the fame which came to certain poems like...Eli Siegel's "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" was an interesting index of the importance attributed by the lay public to poetry."
4. Editors Oswald Garrison Villard, Lewis S. Gannett, Arthur Warner, Joseph Wood Krutch, Freda Kirchwey, and Mark Van Doren, The Nation Vol. 120, No. 3110, page 136 (11 February 1925).
5. Alexander Laing in "The Nation and its Poets," page 212. The Nation, Vol. 201, No. 8 (20 September 1965)
6. Neal T. Jones, editor, A Book of Days for the Literary Year, New York and London: Thames and Hudson (1984), unpaginated, ISBN 0-500-01332-2
7. Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
8. "Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works", Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011
9. "Bibliography", Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
10. Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison", Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
11. Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
12. Cox, Michael (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
13. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
14. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
15. Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
16. Alexander Laing in "The Nation and its Poets," page 212. The Nation, Vol. 201, No. 8 (20 September 1965)
17. Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)"at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. 2009-09-03.
18. Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
19. Web page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
20. Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868–1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
21. Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
22. Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
23. Sarma, C.R., "Modern Indian Literature, An Anthology: Surveys and Poems", chapter in George, K. M., Modern Indian Literature, p 409, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1994, ISBN 81-7201-324-8, ISBN 978-81-7201-324-0, retrieved June 2, 2009
24. Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
25. Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
26. Web page titled "Rafael Méndez Dorich," Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011; also: Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 619
27. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
28. Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
29. Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-12554-6
30. "Famous Azerbaijani poet Bahtiyar Vahabzade died" Archived 2009-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, article, February 13, 2009, Trend News Agency website, retrieved same day
31. "Poet Samuel Menashe has died - latimes.com". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
32. Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006