1923_in_poetry

1923 in poetry

Events

In Paris, Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career.

Picture of William Butler Yeats published this year, the same year The Cat and the Moon was published

Djuna Barnes, A Book, collection of prose and poetry
E. E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys
Walter De La Mare, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of all Ages (anthology)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Payam-i-Mashriq (Message from the East), a philosophical poetry book in Persian
D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, including "Snake"
John Masefield, Collected Poems
Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol ("literally, "weird and random"), a collection of Bengali children's poems and rhymes
Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" and "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle". Stevens' first book, it was published by Knopf when the was in middle age (44 years old). Its first edition sold only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting that Mark Van Doren had it right when he wrote in The Nation in 1923, that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular."^[1] Yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies was becoming a "multinational conglomerate".^[2]
Jean Toomer, Cane
William Carlos Williams:
- Go Go and "Spring and All"
William Butler Yeats, The Cat and the Moon, including "Leda and the Swan"

Nobel Prize in Literature: William Butler Yeats
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany

January 15 — Ivor Cutler (died 2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
January 16 — Anthony Hecht (died 2004), American poet
February 2 — James Dickey (died 1997), American poet and novelist
March 21: Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
March 27 — Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet who won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
March 30 — Milton Acorn (died 1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright nicknamed "The People's Poet"
April 3 — Daniel Hoffman, American poet, essayist, and academic who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress — a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, from 1973 to 1974
May 19 — Dorothy Hewett (died 2002), Australian poet and playwright
July 2 — Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet, essayist and translator who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
July 16 — Mari Evans African-American poet
September 22 — Dannie Abse, British poet and writer
October 24 — Denise Levertov (died 1997), British-born American poet
November 9 — James Schuyler (died 1991), American poet and a central figure in the New York School
December 21 — Richard Hugo (died 1982), American poet
date not known:
- Alan Dugan (died 2003), American poet
- Cola Franzen
- John Logan (poet)
- Michalis Katsaros, Greek

9 January — Katherine Mansfield, 34, New Zealand poet and prominent Modernist writer of short fiction
date not known — Maurice Henry Hewlett, English historical novelist, poet and essayist
15 December — Frank Morton, Australian poet and journalist

^ Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 4
^ Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese. Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 11

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