1929 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication
The Dial ceases publication

Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A Book
Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:^[1]
Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty
Cecil Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem
Emily Dickenson, Little, Brown, & Company publishes 150 of her recently discovered poems
Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New Zealand
Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to Franz Kappus from 1903 to 1908 and published by Kappus this year; Germany
W. B. Yeats, The Winding Stair

January 9 — Heiner Muller (died 1995), German
February 16 — Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet and regular participant in the weekly meetings of The Group
March 6 — Gunter Kunert, German
April 2 — Edward Dorn (died 1999) American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
May 16 — Adrienne Rich, American poet
August 21 — X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
August 29 — Thom Gunn, poet
September 26 — Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
October 13 — Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
October 28 — John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
Date not known:
- Anne Ellen Beresford
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German^[2]
- Ursula A. Fanthorpe
- John Patrick Montague
- Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic

March 8 — Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45, British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers
March 28 — Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best knonw as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"
June 8 - Bliss Carman, 68, Canadian poet
July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist

^ Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

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