1913 in poetry

— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March issue also contains Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that this London-based movement has its first readership in the United States. January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912). American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet here. June – The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication, but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owns it; Rebecca West edits it at first, then Ezra Pound takes over as editor; it succeeds The Freewoman and will be succeeded by The Egoist. June 2 – English Poet Laureate Alfred Austin dies, succeeded by Robert Bridges on July 17. September – Founding of The Glebe, an American literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues. Ezra Pound, having heard about the magazine from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos, sends Kreymborg the manuscript of Des Imagistes in the summer and this famous first anthology of Imagism is published as the fifth issue of The Glebe (February 1914). September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out. November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel prize in literature. December 15 – Ezra Pound (in London) writes to James Joyce (in Trieste) requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist. Pound arrived in London by September to meet W. B.

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1919 in poetry

—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 2 — Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family. October — W. B. Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920. December — The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct.

1914 in poetry

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

1926 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published. Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness.