— "Ode of Remembrance", an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", first published in The Times of London in September of this year.
This article covers 1914 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 1 – The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce January 18 – A party held in honor of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Thomas Sturge Moore, Victor Plarr, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint and Frederic Manning; peacock is on the menu January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford March 4 (dated February) – Publication of the first issue of New Numbers, a quarterly collection of work by the Dymock poets in England edited by Lascelles Abercrombie with Wilfrid Gibson; the only other issues are published on May 15 (dated April), about the beginning of October (dated August) and on February 27, 1915 (dated December 1914) March – The Little Review founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance April 3 – American poet Robert Frost moves to the rural English location of Dymock where he joins with the Dymock poets April 20 – American poet Ezra Pound marries English artist Dorothy Shakespear at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London June 5 – Rupert Brooke returns to England at Plymouth after a year's tour of North America and Tahiti and on June 23 joins with the Dymock poets and helps with New Numbers June 24 – Edward Thomas makes the English railway journey which inspires his poem "Adlestrop" en route to meet Robert Frost, who encourages him to begin writing poetry July 2 – BLAST, a short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, is founded with the publication of the first of its total of two editions, edited by Wyndham Lewis August – The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium. At this time Tolkien is an Oxford undergraduate staying at Phoenix Farm, Gedling near Nottingham. September 22 – T. S. Eliot (at this time in England to study) meets Ezra Pound for the first time, in London December – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", enlists in the French Army to fight in World War I and becomes a French citizen after an August attempt at enlistment has been rejected December 3 – Edward Thomas, previously known as a writer of descriptive prose, writes his first mature poem, "Up in the Wind" December 23 – Rupert Brooke begins writing his sonnet "The Soldier" while on military training Jethmal Parsram and Lalchand Amardinomal Jagatiani, both aged around 29, found the Sindhi Sahita Society, a publishing house, in India
Works published in English
Canada William Wilfred Campbell, Sagas of Vaster BritainGarvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009 Katherine Hale, Grey Knitting Marian Osborne, Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom George A. MacKenzie, In that New World Which is the Old Laura E. McCulley, Mary Magdalene and Other Poems, 50 poems; her first book of poetry Beatrice Redpath, Drawn Shutters, her first book Lloyd Roberts, England Over Seas Arthur Stringer, Open Water, London: John Lane Co. (free verse Canadian poetryGnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
United Kingdom Laurence Binyon, The Winnowing-Fan, including "For the Fallen", part of which is excerpted to become "Ode of Remembrance" (written at Pentire Head, Cornwall, and originally published in The Times (London) September 21) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Poetical Works W. H. Davies, The Bird of Paradise, and Other Poems Wilfrid Gibson Borderlands Thoroughfares Thomas Hardy Satires of Circumstance (including the sequence "Poems 1912–13") "Men Who March Away" (September 5, published as "Song of the Soldiers" in The Times (London) September 9) Ford Madox Hueffer, Collected Poems John Masefield, Philip the King, and Other Poems Marian Osborne, Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom Ezra Pound, editor, Des Imagistes: An Anthology, the first anthology of the Imagism movement; published by the Poetry Bookshop in London and issued in America both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical The Glebe for February 1914 (issue #5) Arthur Knowles Sabin, War Harvest, 1914 Katharine Tynan, The Flower of Peace W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities, Irish poet published in the United KingdomMac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 83
United States Conrad Aiken, Earth TriumphantLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) Emily Dickinson, The Single Hound, published posthumously (died 1886) Robert Frost, North of Boston, including "Mending Wall", American poet resident and published in the UK Joyce Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems, including "Trees", which first appeared in Poetry magazine in August 1913) Ezra Pound, editor, Des Imagistes: An Anthology, the first anthology of the Imagism movement; published by the Poetry Bookshop in London and issued in America both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical The Glebe for February 1914 (issue #5) Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed James Oppenheim, Songs for the New Age Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" in Poetry magazine Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons Wallace Stevens' first major publication (of his poem "Phases") is in the November issue of PoetryWallace Stevens (search results), Poetry Magazine . The poem was written when Stevens was 35, and he is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. (Many of his canonical works were written well after he turned fifty.) According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, no Western writer since Sophocles has had such a late flowering of artistic genius.
Other in English Christopher Brennan, Poems: 1913, Australia Prafulla Ranjan Das, The Mother and the Star; Indian, Indian poetry in EnglishVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
Indian Narasinghrao, Nupurjhankar (Indian, writing in Gujarati)
Telugu language Kattamanci Ramalinga Reddi, Kavitya Tattva Vicaramu, criticism Ramalinga Reddi / Kattamanci Ramalinga Reddi, Kavitya Tattva Vicaramu, book of criticism, called a "very controversial" and "scathing critique of traditional poetry" and also a "pioneering work in modern Telugu criticism" Burra Seshagiri Rao, Vimarsadarsamu, book partly about the relationship between poetry and society
Other languages Anna Akhmatova, The Rosary, Russia, her second collection; by this time there are thousands of women composing their poems "after Akhmatova"; the book becomes so popular in Russia that a "parlor game based upon the book was even invented. One person would recite a line of poetry and the next person would try to recite the next, until the entire book was recited." Debka, Jill, "Akhmatova: Biographical/Historical Overview" short biographical sketch of Akhmatova, accessed December 8, 2006 Julius Bab, ed., 1914: der deutsche Krieg im deutschen Gedicht, Germany José Santos Chocano, Puerto Rico lírico y otros poemas, PeruWeb page titled "José Santos Chocano" at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011 Janus Djurhuus, Yrkingar, Faroese Walter Flex, Das Volk in Eisen, Germany Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism in (India)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, , retrieved December 10, 2008 Vasily Kamensky, Tango with Cows: Ferro-Concrete Poems (Танго С Коровами: Железобетонныя Поэмы), Russia Ernst Lissauer, "" (Hassgesang gegen England), Germany Stéphane Mallarmé, Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ("A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance"), originally published in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897, posthumously published in book form for the first time, in a limited, 60-copy edition by the Imprimerie Sainte Catherine at Bruges, Belgium Gabriela Mistral, Sonetos de la muerte ("Sonnets of Death"), ChileWeb page titled "©The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Biography", at the Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010 Patrick Pearse, Suantraidhe agus Goltraidhe (Songs of Sleep and of Sorrow), Ireland Rainer Maria Rilke, Fünf Gesänge, August 1914 ("Five Hymns, August 1914"), written, Germany Ernst Stadler, Der Aufbruch ("The Departure"), this German poet's most important volume of verse, regarded as a key work of early Expressionism; he is killed in battle this year Georg Trakl, "Grodek", Austria, posthumously published in Der Brenner Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 – Dudley Randall (died 2000) African American poet and poetry publisher, founding Broadside Press in 1965 January 17 – William Stafford (died 1993), American poet February 7 – David Ignatow (died 1997), American poet February 14 – Jan Nisar Akhtar (died 1976) Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms and lyricist for Bollywood February 22 – Henry Reed (died 1986), English poet February 24 – Weldon Kees (missing, presumed dead 1955), American poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, composer and artist February 25 – John Arlott (died 1991), English cricket commentator and poet March 31 – Octavio Paz (died 1998) Mexican writer, poet and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 April 13 – Orhan Veli Kanik (died 1950), Turkish poet. May 3 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (died 2018), French poet, novelist, broadcaster and journalist May 6 – Randall Jarrell (died 1965), American poet and writer June 2 - George Hitchcock (died 2010), American poet, editor and publisher of Kayak magazine and books (1964–1984) June 26 – Laurie Lee (died 1997), English memoirist and poet September 1 – Jean Burden (died 2008), American poet, editor, essayist and pet-care writer September 5 – Nicanor Parra (died 2018), Chilean poet and physicist September 29 – D. J. Opperman (died 1985), South African Afrikaans poet July 30 – Tachihara Michizō 立原道造 (died 1939), Japanese poet and architect October 25 – John Berryman (born John Allyn Smith) (died 1972) American poet considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry October 27 – Dylan Thomas (died 1953), Welsh poet October 30 – James Laughlin (died 1997), American poet and literary book publisher, founder of New Directions Publishers