1925 in poetry explained

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature, including Irish or France.

Events

January - Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before.^[1]
February 11 - Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana".^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
February 21 - First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.^[6]
November 21 - First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
December 28 - Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (b. 1895) writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye", in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad.
T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishing house of Faber and Gwyer.
An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940.

Works published

Canada

Arthur Bourinot, Pattering Feet: A book of childhood verses.
Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Duncan Campbell Scott ed. Posthumously published—not to be confused with Lampman's 1895 book of the same name.^[7]
Marjorie Pickthall:
- Little Songs (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)
- The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart).^[8]
E. J. Pratt, The Witches' Brew, Toronto: Macmillan.^[9]
Charles G. D. Roberts. The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Seven Poems. private.
Seranus, Songs of Love and Labor (Toronto: Author).^[10]

India in English

Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems (Poetry in English), Allahabad: The Indian Press ^[11]
M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute (Poetry in English), Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works ^[11]

United Kingdom

Edmund Blunden, Masks of Time^[12]
Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years^[12]
Robert Bridges:
- New Verse Written in 1921^[12] which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
- The Tapestry: Poems
W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet^[12]
Cecil Day-Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems^[12]
T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
'Gawain Poet' (14th century), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon
Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose^[12]
Graham Greene, Babbling April^[12]
Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime^[12]
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw^[12]
Edwin Muir, First Poems^[12]
Edith Sitwell, Troy Park^[12]
Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier^[12]
Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess^[12]
W. B. Yeats, A Vision^[12]

United States

Léonie Adams, Those Not Elect^[13]
Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams^[13]
Stephen Vincent Benét, Tiger Joy^[13]
Countee Cullen:
- On These I Stand, Harper & Row^[14]
- Color^[13]
E. E. Cummings:
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- XLI Poems^[13]
Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock^[13]
John Gould Fletcher, Parables^[13]
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Collected Poems of H.D.
Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden^[13]
Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion^[13]
William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives^[13]
Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth^[13]
Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, Paris^[15]
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt^[13]
Eli Siegel, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" ^[16]
Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides^[13]

Other in English

W. B. Yeats, A Vision, Ireland

Works published in other languages

France

Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky,, posthumously published (died 1918)^[17]
Louis Aragon, ^[18]
Antonin Artaud:
- ("The Umbilicus of Limbo"), poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française^[19]
- ^[19]
André Breton, ^[18]
Paul Claudel,
Max Jacob, ^[18]
Francis Jammes:
- , Paris: Éditions Spes^[20]
- , published each year from 1922 to this year^[20]
Raymond Radiguet,, published posthumously (author died this year)^[21]
Pierre Reverdy, ^[18]
Jules Supervielle, ^[18]
Charles Vildrac,

Indian subcontinent

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Hindi

Jayashankar Prasad, poem on love and beauty^[22]
Maithilisharan Gupta, based on the Ram legend^[22]
Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi,, verses on social and political problems^[22]

Telugu

Devulapalli Krishna Shastri,, a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature^[22]
Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, ^[23] (another source spells the title as ;^[22] "The Songs of Yenki"), 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature;^[23] a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava^[22] "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma (the surname of the author is "Nanduri")^[23]
Rayaprolu Subba Rao,, lyrics
Visvanatha Satyanarayana, (also rendered ; a lyrical epic in seven cantos) and, two works published in the same volume^[22]

Other Indian languages

Altaf Husain Hali,, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors^[22]
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)^[24]
Dimbeshwar Neog,, Assamese-language^[22]
Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre,, Marathi satirical and humorous poems^[22]
Rabindranath Thakur,, Bengali, includes love poems
Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury,, Assamese^[22]
Syed jalal,, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali^[22]
D. T. Tatacharya,, satirical Sanskrit poem^[22]
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury,, Telugu epic in four cantos^[22]

Spanish language

Rafael Alberti, ("Sailor on Land"); Spain^[25]
Rafael Méndez Dorich, (Buenos Aires), Peruvian poet published in Argentina^[26]
José Gorostiza, ("Songs to Sing on Boats"), Mexico
Salvador Novo, ("20 Poems"), Mexico
Miguel de Unamuno, ("From Fuerteventura to Paris"), Spain^[25]

Other languages

Sophus Claussen,, including ("Revolt of the Atoms"), Denmark^[27]
Uri Zvi Greenberg, ("A Great Fear and the Moon"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
Lionel Léveillé,, French language, Canada^[28]
Eugenio Montale, ("Cuttlefish Bones"), first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; Italy^[29]

Awards and honors

Dial Award: E.E. Cummings
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice

Births

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

January 14 - Yukio Mishima, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (died 1970), Japanese author, poet and playwright (Surname of this pen name: Mishima)
January 20 - Jamiluddin Aali (died 2015), Indian-born Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar
February 8 - Francis Webb (died 1973) Australian poet
February 20 - Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (died 2023), Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacher
February 22 - Gerald Stern (died 2022), American
February 27 - Kenneth Koch (died 2002) American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
March 10 - Manolis Anagnostakis (died 2005) Greek poet and critic
March 13 - Inge Müller (died 1966) East German
March 14 - John Wain (died 1994) English poet, novelist and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
March 25 - Theodore Enslin (died 2011), American
April 18 - Bob Kaufman (died 1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
June 6 - Maxine Kumin (died 2014), American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982
July 4 - Ciril Zlobec (died 2018), Slovene poet and politician
August 1 - Ernst Jandl (died 2000), Austrian poet, author and translator
August 12 - Donald Justice (died 2004), American poet and writing teacher
August 16 - Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet and philologist^[30]
September 16 - Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004^[31]
October 8 - Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator
October 28 - Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
November 15 - Heinz Piontek (died 2003), German^[32]
November 27 - Munier Choudhury (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 10 - Carolyn Kizer (died 2014), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
December 12 - Laurence Lerner (died 2016), South African-born poet and academic

Deaths