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Events

• Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.
• Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who wrote under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire" was suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa and imprisoned for six days^[1]

Works published in English

William Butler Yeats, photographed this year by George Charles Beresford

United Kingdom

• Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911
• G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse^[2]
• Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse^[2]
• E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre^[2]
• Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy^[2]
• John Masefield, Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers (for children)^[2]
• Stephen Phillips, The New Inferno^[2]
• Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom^{[3 ]}
• Katharine Tynan, New Poems^[2]

United States

• Franklin P. Adams, Tobogganing on Parnassus^[4]
• Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom^{[3 ]}
• George Sterling, The House of Orchids^[4]
• Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy^[4]

Other in English

• Victor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, Australia
• J. D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland Lyrics^[5]
• J. N. Gupta, The Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, (Dutt [ 1848–1920] was an Indian poet who wrote in English), published in New York and London this year

Works published in other languages

France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire; ou, Cortege d'Orphee, Paris: Deplanche;^[6] his first book of poetry^[1] (see also "Events" section, above)
• Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrede^[1]
• Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912^[7]
• Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments^[1]
• Saint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France^[8]

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:

• Devendranath Sen, Indian, Bengali-language poet:
  • Golap Guccha^[9]
  • Sisu Mangal^[9]
  • Apurba Naibedya^[9]
• Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form^[10] (surname: Gurajada)
• S. G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada language^[9]
• Tirupathi Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales^[10] (surname: Tirupathi)

Other languages

• Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony, Greece

Awards and honors

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb Riley
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist

Births

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

• January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984), Pakistani poet
• February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
• February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
• February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
• March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian
• April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poet
• May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet
• May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
• June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary critic
• June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poet
• June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
• June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004), Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
• July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic^[9]
• July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poet
• August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
• September 9 – Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet
• October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet
• November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), Greek
• November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), Australian
• December 13 – Kenneth Patchen, (died 1972) American poet and novelist

• Also:
  • C. B. Christesen (died 2003), Australian
  • Robert Clark, Australian^[11]
  • Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), French
  • Ernst Meister (died 1979), German^[12]
  • Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[9]
  • Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator^[13]
  • Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist^[9]
  • Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist^[9]

Deaths

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

• April 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835), English civil servant, literary historian and poet
• August 7 – Elizabeth Chase Allen (born 1832), American author, journalist and poet

• Also:
  • Jwala Prasad Barq (born 1863), Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translator^[9]
  • Eknath Ganesh Bhandare (born 1863), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator and a station-master^[9]
  • Abdul Ahad Nadim (born 1840), Indian, Urdu-language poet who wrote "nats" (devotional lyrics addressed to the Prophet) in the traditional variety of the Kashmiri '"Vatsun"^[9]
  • Frances Watkins

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Acmeist poetry movement in Russian poetry
• Dymock poets
• Ego-Futurism movement in Russian poetry
• Expressionism movement in German poetry
• Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) modernist period in Polish arts and literature

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