1920 in poetry

— Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. first published in December in Harper's Magazine May – Irish poet W. B. Yeats concludes a lecture tour (begun in the fall of 1919) in the United States and crosses the Atlantic to settle in Oxford. December – The Poems of English war poet Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918) are published posthumously in London with an introduction by his friend Siegfried Sassoon; only five of Owen's verses had been published during his lifetime, thus his work is introduced to many readers for the first time, including the 1917 poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est"; the latter 28-line poem's horrifying makes it one of the best-known condemnations of war ever written. Ezra Pound moves from London to Paris where he moves among a circle of artists, musicians and writers who are revolutionising modern art. The Dial, a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by Scofield Thayer; the publication becomes an important outlet for Modernist poets and writers (until 1929), with contributors this year including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and W. B. Yeats. First issue of the anthology of Scottish poetry, Northern Notes, edited by Christopher Murray Grieve. Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov co-founds the "All-Russia Union of Writers" in the Soviet Union, where he makes no secret of his anti-Communist views, crosses himself in public, and doesn't care to hide his contempt for half-literate Bolsheviks.

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1918 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in The Nation). April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program.

1920 in poetry

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.