1929 in poetry
Events
Works published
- 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
Awards and honors
Births
- 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:
Deaths
- 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
See also
References
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