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Births

Deaths

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Events

★ Ezra Pound moves from London to Paris where he moved among a circle of artists, musicians and writers who were 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

★ 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. His fate changes in 1921.

Works published

★ Hart Crane publishes his poem "My Grandmother's Love Letters" in The Dial. This is his first real step towards recognition as a poet.

★ T.S. Eliot, ''Poems'' and ''The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism''

★ Robert Frost, ''Miscellaneous Poems''

★ Edna St. Vincent Millay, ''A Few Figs From Thistles''

★ Wilfred Owen, ''Poems'', posthumously published

★ Ezra Pound, ''Hugh Selwyn Mauberley''

★ Charles Reznikoff, ''Poems'' published by the New York Poetry Book Shop; the book features poems from Reznikoff's ''Rhythms'' and ''Rhythms II''

★ Carl Sandburg, ''Smoke and Steel''

★ Siegfried Sassoon, ''Picture Show''

★ Charles Vildrac, ''Chants du désespéré'' (France)

★ William Carlos Williams, ''Kora in Hell. Improvisations''

★ W.B. Yeats, ''Michael Robartes and the Dancer''

Awards and honors

Births

★ January 24 — Keith Douglas, English poet

★ August 16 — Charles Bukowski

★ Paul Celan (Romania

★ Amy Clampitt

★ Alex Comfort

★ Rosemary Dobson (Australia)

★ Keith Castellain Douglas

★ Dennis Joseph Enright

★ Barbara Guest

★ Edwin Morgan (Scotland)

★ Howard Nemerov

★ Alexander Scott (Scotland)

Deaths

★ May 11 — William Dean Howells, 83, American literary critic, author and poet

★ June 5 — Julia A. Moore, 72, American poetaster, famed for her notoriously bad poetry

★ December 21, 1920 — Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, 56, Somali poet, religious and nationalist leader who for 20 years led armed resistance to the British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces in Somalia and used his patriotic poetry to rally his supporters

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★ Charles Carryl

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★ Louise Imogen Guiney, American poet

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★ Dollie Radford, English poet and writer

See also

★ Poetry

★ List of years in poetry