• Source: 1921 in poetry

      • Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


      Events


      March — Jorge Luis Borges returns to his birthplace, Buenos Aires in Argentina, after a period living with his family in Europe.
      August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov. The exact dates and locations of their executions and burials are still unknown. He had divorced Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in 1918.
      Autumn–Winter — T. S. Eliot works on The Waste Land in Margate and Lausanne.
      December 31 — Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual n°1 (Mexico City).
      Mrs. C. A. Dawson-Scott founds PEN, an international Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists, in London with John Galsworthy, who becomes the organisation's first President; first members include Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells


      Works published in English




      = Canada

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      Arthur Bourinot, Poems. Toronto: T.H. Best.
      Wilson MacDonald, The Miracle Songs Of Jesus. Toronto: W. MacDonald.


      = India in Indian poetry in English

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      Sri Aurobindo, Love and Death, long poem about the triumph of love over death, concerning the Ruru-Priyumvada legend (somewhat like the Greek Orpheus-Eurydice and the Indian Satvitri-Satyavan myths)
      Toru Dutt, Life and Letters of Toru Dutt, London, Milford: Oxford University Press, Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
      Maneck B. Pithawalla, A Wedding Feast, Karachi: M. B. Pithawalla* Poets of John Company, Calcutta: Tahcker, Spink and Co., 134 pages; anthology
      K. S. R. Sastry, The Epic of Indian Womanhood, Madras: Imperial Trading Co.
      Puran Singh, The Sisters of the Spinning Wheel and Other Sikh Poems, London: Dent
      Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, Ashoka and Other Poems, Delhi: self-published


      = United Kingdom

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      Nancy Cunard, Outlaws
      Walter de la Mare, The Veil, and Other Poems
      Toru Dutt, Life and Letters of Toru Dutt, London, Milford: Oxford University Press, Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
      T. S. Eliot, The Metaphysical Poets, critical essay on the Metaphysical poets of the 16th and 17th centuries (text here)
      Robert Graves, The Pier-Glass
      D. H. Lawrence, Tortoises
      Bertram Lloyd, ed., The Great Kinship: An Anthology of Humanitarian Poetry
      Charlotte Mew, Saturday Market
      Vita Sackville-West, Orchard and Vineyard
      John Collings Squire, Collected Parodies
      Flora Thompson, Bog-Myrtle and Peat
      W. B. Yeats, Irish author published in the United Kingdom:
      Michael Robartes and the Dancer, includes "The Second Coming" and "A Prayer For My Daughter"
      Four Plays for Dancers, adds "At the Hawk's Well" and "Calvary" to Two Plays for Dancers, published in 1919


      = United States

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      Conrad Aiken, Punch: The Immoratal Liar
      Sherwood Anderson, The Triumph of the Egg
      John Gould Fletcher, Breakers and Granite
      Zona Gale, The Secret Way
      H.D., Hymen
      Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", in The Crisis
      Amy Lowell, Legends
      Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second April
      Marianne Moore, Poems
      Ezra Pound, Poems 1918–1921, New York
      Charles Reznikoff, A Fourth Group of Verse
      Edward Arlington Robinson, Avon's Harvest
      William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes
      Yvor Winters, The Immobile Wind
      Elinor Wylie, Nets to Catch the Wind


      = Other in English

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      C. J. Dennis, A Book for Kids (reissued as Roundabout, 1935), Australia
      Lesbia Harford, special issue of Birth (Melbourne, May) devoted to her poetry, Australia
      Patrick Joseph Hartigan, published under the pen name "Joseph O'Brien", Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, very popular Australian book of poetry which went into five editions and 18,000 copies by 1926; widely popularized across eastern Australia by recitations of John Byrne, praised in Ireland and the United States, made into a film in 1925, and 20 poems of the book were set to music in 1933; includes "Said Hanrahan", from which "We'll all be rooned" became an Australian catch phrase
      W. B. Yeats, Irish author published in the United Kingdom:
      Michael Robartes and the Dancer, includes "The Second Coming" and "A Prayer For My Daughter"
      Four Plays for Dancers, adds "At the Hawk's Well" and "Calvary" to Two Plays for Dancers, published in 1919


      Works published in other languages




      = France

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      André Breton, Les Champs magnétiques
      Max Jacob, Le Laboratoire central
      Francis Jammes:
      Épitaphes, Paris: Librairie de l'Art catholic
      Le Tombeau de Jean de la Fontaine, Paris: Mercure de France
      Pierre Reverdy, Étoiles peintes
      Paul-Jean Toulet, Les Contrerimes, French


      = Indian subcontinent

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

      Amir Minai, Mina-yi, Urdu-language
      Basavaraju Appa Rao, Basavaraju Appa Rao Gitalu, Telugu-language
      Dimbeshwar Neog, Malika, Assamese-language
      Govindagraj, Vagvaijayanti, 160 poems, including love poems and verses on social and mystic topics; with an introduction by N. C. Kelkar, Marathi-language
      Padmadhar Chaliha, Svaraj Sangit, Indian, Assamese-language
      Vallathol Narayana Menon, Magdalana Mariyam, a Malayalam khanda kavya about a repentant Mary consoled by Christ
      Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Andhra paurusamu, Indian, Telugu-language, written in 1917 but printed in book form this year


      = Other languages

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      Anna Akhmatova, Plantain, Russian
      August Alle, Carmina Barbata, Estonian
      J. C. Bloem, Het verlangen, Dutch
      António Botto, Canções (Songs), Portuguese
      H. Leivick, The Golem, "dramatic poem in eight scenes", Yiddish
      Federico García Lorca, Libro de poemas (Book of Poems), Spain
      Nikolay Gumilyov, The Pillar of Fire, Russian
      Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Pastorale Austria
      Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Avidez, Mexico
      Carlos Pellicer, Colores en el mar (Colors in the Sea), Mexico
      Ramón López Velarde, La suave patria, Mexico


      Births


      Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (Indian poets listed by first name, when listed alphabetically, whether or not it is a surname):

      January 7 – Chester Kallman (died 1975), American poet, librettist and translator best known for collaborations with Igor Stravinsky
      January 15 – Raymond Souster (died 2012), Canadian poet
      January 31 – Kurt Marti (died 2017), Swiss theologian and poet
      March 1 – Richard Wilbur (died 2017), American poet
      April 6 – Marie Ponsot (died 2019), née Birmingham, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
      April 13 – Max Harris (died 1995), Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher and bookseller
      April 24 – Gabriel Okara (died 2019), Nigerian poet and novelist
      May 9:
      Daniel Berrigan (died 2016), American Jesuit priest, poet and anti-war activist
      Mona Van Duyn (died 2004), American poet
      June 14 – John Bradburne (killed 1979), English poet and missionary
      June 15 – James Emanuel (died 2013), African-American poet and scholar
      June 27 – Lex Banning (died 1965), Australian poet born with cerebral palsy and unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen
      June 29 – vasko Popa (died 1991), Serbian poet
      July 5 – Nanos Valaoritis (died 2019), Greek poet, novelist and playwright
      August 14 – Julia Hartwig (died 2017), Polish poet
      August 16 – Shiv K. Kumar (died 2017), Indian, English-language poet, playwright and fiction writer
      August 18 – Frédéric Jacques Temple (died 2020), French poet and writer
      August 21 – Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak (died 1966), Telugu-language poet and story writer
      August 31 – Hayden Carruth (died 2008), American poet and literary critic
      September 2 – Shukrullo (died 2020), Uzbek poet
      October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz (died 2014), Polish poet, dramatist and writer
      October 13 – Dimitris Tsaloumas (died 2016), Greek-born Australian poet, resident in Australia from 1952
      October 17 – George Mackay Brown (died 1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist
      December 25 – Nan McDonald (died 1974), Australian poet and editor
      December 26 – Adebayo Faleti (died 2017), Nigerian poet, journalist, playwright, actor, broadcaster and translator
      Also:
      Divya Prabha Bharali, Indian, Assamese-language poet; a woman
      Kathan Singh Jamal, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi-language poet
      Khizar Maghribi, Indian writer of parodies and humorous verse in the Kashmiri language
      Mangalacharan Chattopadhyay, Indian, Bengali-language Marxist poet
      Parsram Rohra (died 1981), Indian, Sindhi-language
      Ramkrishna Sharma (died 1986), Indian, Nepali-language critic, essayist, poet and short-story writer called the father of modern literary criticism in Nepali
      Rasananda Sahu, Indian, Oriya poet and novelist
      Shambhoo Nath Bhatt Haleem, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet and children's author
      Sarachchandra Muktibodh (died 1984), Indian, Marathi-language poet and novelist
      Shrikrishna Powale (died 1974), Indian, Marathi-language poet in the "Sthandil" Cult of Kusumagraj and Kant
      Sugan Ahuja (died 1966), Indian, Sindhi-language poet and short-story writer


      Deaths


      Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (Indian poets listed by first name, when listed alphabetically, whether or not it is a surname):

      January 13 – Francis William Bourdillon, 68, British poet and translator
      February 15 – Akbar Allahabadi, 74, Indian, Urdu-language poet known for his satire
      April 21 – Rosa Mulholland, Lady Gilbert (born 1841), Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet
      May 26 – Donald Evans (born 1884), American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist
      June 18 – G. H. Gibson, "Ironbark" (born 1846), Australian
      August 7 – Alexander Blok, 40, Russian poet known for his lyrics
      circa August 25 – Nikolay Gumilyov, 35, Russian poet and former husband of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (executed – see Events, above)
      September 2 – Henry Austin Dobson, 61 (born 1840), English poet and essayist
      September 11 – Subramania Bharati (born 1882), Indian, Tamil-language writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer, also writing Indian poetry in English
      September 13 – James Hebblethwaite (born 1857), English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman
      September 26 – Matei Donici, 74 (born 1847), Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
      November 21 – Ernest Myers, 77, English poet and classicist
      Also:
      Va. Ba. Patavardhan (born 1870), Indian, Marathi-language critic and poet


      Awards and honors


      Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given


      See also



      Poetry
      List of years in poetry


      Notes

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