1929 in poetry
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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
• 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 Dickinson, Little, Brown, & Company publishes 150 of her recently discovered poems
• T. S. Eliot, "Som de l'escalina" (later to become part III of Ash-Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Autumn, 1929 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.²
• 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

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body

Births

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

• 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
• February 28 – John Montague, Irish
• 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
• June 11 – George Garrett (died 2008), American poet and novelist
• August 5 – A. Alvarez, English poet, writer and critic who also publishes under the name Al Alvarez
• 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 25 – Peter Rühmkorf (died 2008), German writer and poet
• October 26 – Dane Zajc (died 2005), Slovenian poet
• Oct. 21 – Donald Finkel, 79 (died 2008), American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance Urdang³
• October 28 – John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
• November 11 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German⁴
• Date not known:
  • Anne Beresford, English poet and actress
  • Turner Cassity, American
  • Ursula A. Fanthorpe
  • John Patrick Montague
  • Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman") (died 2006), Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
  • Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic

Deaths

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

• March 8 – Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45 (born 1883), 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 (born 1861), Canadian poet
• July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

References