1919 in poetry

Spanish language

Spain

• Juan Ramón Jiménez, Piedra y cielo ("Stone and Sky"), Spain
• Ramón del Valle Inclán, La pipa de Kif ("Kif's Pipe"), Spain

Latin America

• Alfonsina Storni, Without Remedy, Argentina

Other languages

• António Botto, Cantares, Portugal
• Khalil Gibran, The Procession, long ode, Arabic
• Charles Gill, Le Cap Éternité: suivi des Étoiles filantes, French language, Canada
• Uri Zvi Greenberg, In tsaytns roysh ("In the tumult of the times"), verse and prose, Yiddish published in Austria-Hungary
• Kitahara Kakushu, Heretics, Japan
• , Il Fabbro armonioso ("The Harmonious Blacksmith"), Italy
• Kurt Pinthus, editor, Menschheitsdämmerung ("The Twilight of Mankind"), anthology of Expressionist poetry, published in Berlin, Germany
• Anton Schnack, Strophen der Gier ("Verses of greed"), Der Abenteurer ("The adventurer") and Die tausend Gelächter ("The thousand laughs"), Germany
• Kurt Schwitters, "An Anna Blume" ("To Anna Flower" also translated as "To Eve Blossom"), widely noticed and controversial work variously described as a parody of a love poem, an emblem of the chaos and madness of the era, and as a harbinger of a new poetic language; much parodied; originally published in August in Der Sturm magazine, then later in the year in Schwitters' book, Anna Blume, Dichtungen, published by Verlag Paul Steegemann, Hannover (revised edition 1922), Germany
• Edith Sodergran, Gaudy Observations, Sweden
• August Stramm, Tropfblut, Germany, posthumous
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Allegria di naufragi ("The Joy of Shipwrecks") and La guerra ("The War"), Italy

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, Swiss poet and novelist
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 7 – Robert Duncan (died 1988), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation, and a key player in the San Francisco Renaissance
• January 9 – William Morris Meredith, Jr. (died 2007), American poet
• January 14
• Kaifi Azmi (died 2002), Indian, Hindi- and Urdu-language poet lyricist and songwriter
• Syed Abdul Malik (died 2000), Indian, Assamese-language short-story writer and poet
• January 19 – Joan Brossa (died 1998), Spanish Catalan poet
• January 20 – Silva Kaputikyan (died 2006), Armenian poet
• February 12 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (died 2003), Bengali poet and Marxist (surname: Mukhopadhyay)
• March 17 – Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, عبدالرحمن پژواک (died 1995), Afghan, Pashto-language poet, novelist, playwright and diplomat
• March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born Lawrence Ferling (died 2021), American beat poet, painter and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore and publisher
• April 15 – Emyr Humphreys (died 2020), Welsh novelist, playwright and poet
• April 17 – J. Rodolfo Wilcock (died 1978), Argentine-born author, poet and translator
• May 28 – May Swenson (died 1989), American poet and playwright
• June 7 – Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub (died 1988), Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet
• July 19 – Miltos Sachtouris, Μίλτος Σαχτούρης (died 2005), Greek
• August 30 – Jiří Orten, born Jiří Ohrenstein (died 1941), Czech
• August 31 – Amrita Pritam (died 2005), Punjabi poet and novelist; a woman
• September 2 – Binod Chandra Nayak, Indian, Oriya-language poet
• September 3 – Edwin Honig (died 2011), American poet, critic and translator known for his English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literature
• September 7 – Louise Bennett-Coverley, aka "Miss Lou" (died 2006), Jamaican folklorist, writer and poet
• September 18 – M. Govindan (died 1988), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, short-story writer, playwright and essayist
• September 23 – Tōta Kaneko (died 2018), Japanese haiku poet
• September 26 – Matilde Camus (died 2012), Spanish poet and researcher
• September 29 – Ruth Dallas, born Ruth Mumford (died 2008), New Zealand poet
• October 1 – G. D. Madgulkar (died 1978), Indian, Marathi-language poet, songwriter and short-story writer
• November 4 – Patricia Beer (died 1999), English poet and critic
• November 11 – Hamish Henderson (died 2002), Scottish poet, folk song collector and soldier
• November 18 – Madeline DeFrees (died 2015), American poet
• Also:
• Lance Jeffers (died 1985), African American
• Michalis Katsaros (died 1998), Greek
• Kuroda Saburu, Japanese (surname: Kuroda)
• Bani Ray, Bengali writer, novelist, poet and critic, a woman
• Buddhidhari Singha, Maithili-language poet and fiction writer
• Girija Kumar Mathur (died 1994), Indian, Hindi-language poet
• Yoshioka Minoru (died 1990), Japanese (surname: Yoshioka)

Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 4 – Matilda Betham-Edwards (born 1836), English novelist, travel writer, poet and children's book author
• January 15 – Benjamin Paul Blood (born 1832), American philosopher and poet
• January 19 – Gladys Cromwell (born 1885), American poet, suicide at sea
• January 23 – Ram Ganesh Gadkari, writing poetry as Govindagraj (born 1885), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist
• January 27 – Endre Ady (born 1877), Hungarian
• February 5 – William Michael Rossetti (born 1839), English poet and essayist
• May 24 – Amado Nervo (died 1870), Mexican
• August 31 – Jóhann Sigurjónsson (born 1880), Icelandic playwright and poet
• October 6 – Ricardo Palma (born 1833), Peruvian novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and writer of short fiction
• October 30 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox (born 1850), American
• December 22 – Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (born 1836), American
• Also:
• Akshay Kumar Boral (born 1860), Indian, Bengali-language poet
• Brij Raj (born 1847), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet
• Ganesh Janardan Agasha (born 1852), Indian, Marathi-language poet and literary critic
• Narayan Waman Tilak (born 1861), Indian, Marathi-language Christian poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

References