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Concept
1909 in poetry
Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February – Founding of the Poetry Recital Society, later the Poetry Society, in London.
July 1 – English poets F. M. Cornford and Frances Darwin marry.
T. E. Hulme leaves the Poets' Club, and starts meeting with F. S. Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme refers to as the 'Secession Club'; they meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London's Soho district to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through the introduction of free verse, tanka and haiku, and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems. In April, Ezra Pound is introduced to the group and joins it.
May Austin Low, Confession, and Other Verses.
Tom MacInnes, Lonesome Bar and Other Poems (much of the book was reprinted in In Amber Lands 1910)
Robert W. Service, Ballads of a Cheechako
E. W. Thomson, The Many-Mansioned House and Other Poems
Laurence Binyon, England, and Other Poems
A. C. Bradley, Oxford Lectures on Poetry, criticism
Joseph Campbell, The Mountainy Singer
Roby Datta, Echoes from the East and West to which are added stray notes of Mine Own, edited by Roby Datta, Cambridge: Galloway and Porter, Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
John Davidson, Fleet Street, and Other Poems
Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses
George Meredith, Last Poems
Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island, and Other Poems
Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
Personae
Exultations
The Poets' Club publishes two anthologies: For Christmas MDCCCCVIII (January 1909) and The Book of the Poets' Club (December) including the first examples of Imagist poetry
James Stephens, Insurrections, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
John Millington Synge, Poems and Translations, preface by W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works, including poetry, published in 12 volumes from this year to 1912
Florence Earle Coates, Lyrics of Life
Francis M.
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