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Events

Works published

Awards and honors

Births

Deaths

See also

Events

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

★ ''The Dial'' ceases publication

Works published

★ Djuna Barnes, ''A Night Among the Horses'' a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, ''A Book''

★ Robert Bridges, ''The Testament of Beauty''

★ Cecil Day-Lewis, ''Transitional Poem''

★ 'Emily Dickenson', Little, Brown, & Company publishes 150 of her recently discovered poems

★ Robinson Jeffers, ''Dear Judas and Other Poems''

★ D. H. Lawrence, ''Pansies''

★ I. A. Richards, ''Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement''

★ 'W. B. Yeats', ''The Winding Stair''

Awards and honors

===United States===

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, ''John Browns Body''

Births

★ February 16 — Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet and regular participant in the weekly meetings of The Group

★ 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

★ October 28 — John Hollander, American poet and literary critic

★ date not known:

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★ Anne Ellen Beresford

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★ Ursula A. Fanthorpe

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★ Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator

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★ John Patrick Montague

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★ Ned O'Gorman

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★ Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic

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

★ Poetry

★ List of poetry awards

★ List of years in poetry