1926 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
• Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes

Works published

Canada

• William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.^[1]
• Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.^[2]
• E. J. Pratt, Titans ("The Cachalot, The Great Feud"), Toronto: Macmillan.^[3]
• Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
• Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.^[1]
• Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse] (Québec: Dussault & Proulx).^[4]

India in English

• Swami Anand Acharya, Arctic Swallows and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ),^[5]
• The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; published in the United Kingdom^[6]
• Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism^[7]

United Kingdom

• Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (as John Paris), A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
• Edmund Blunden, English Poems^[8]
• W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song^[8]
• Loyd Haberly, Cymberina, American poet self-published in the United Kingdom
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve:
  • A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle^[8]
  • Penny Wheep^[8]
• Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead^[8]
• Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
• Vita Sackville-West, The Land^[8]
• Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems^[8]
• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom
• The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, London: Kegal Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 232 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom^[6]
• Humbert Wolfe:
  • Humoresque^[8]
  • News of the Devil^[8]
• W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies (autobiography), volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan^[8]

United States

• Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy^[9]
• Hart Crane, White Buildings^[9]
• Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row^[10]
• E. E. Cummings, is 5^[9]
• John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam^[9]
• Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues^[11]
• Vachel Lindsay:
  • Going to the Stars^[9]
  • The Candle in the Cabin^[9]
• Amy Lowell, East Wind^[9]
• Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
• Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem^[9]
• John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems^[9]
• Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope^[9]
• Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems^[9]
• Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon^[9]
• Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems^[9]
• Louis Zukofsky completes "Poem beginning 'The'," incorporating fragments of the writings of Dante, Virginia Woolf, and Benito Mussolini, among others

Other in English

• W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, A Treasury of New Zealand Verse, revised version (without preface) of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology^[12]
• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

Works published in other languages

France

• Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism^[13]
• Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
  • Dessous d'une vie^[13]
  • Capitale de la douleur^[14] ("Capital of Pain"); the poems influence Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution which has quotations from the book
• Francis Jammes, Ma France poétique, Paris: Mercure de France; France^[15]
• Pierre Jean Jouve:
  • Mystérieuses Noces^[13]
  • Nouvelles Noces^[13]

Indian subcontinent

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

• Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language^[16]
• Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)^[16]
• Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor^[16]
• S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil^[16]

Spanish language

Peru

• Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas^[17]
• Alejandro Peralta, Ande^[18]
• Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra^[18]

Other in Spanish

• Rafael Alberti, La amante ("The Beloved"); Spain^[19]
• Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico (history)
• Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí ("Ode to Salvador Dalí"), Spain
• Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico

Other languages

• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah ("Manhood on the Rise"), Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
• Tin Ujević, Kolajna ("Necklace"), Croatian

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock

Births

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

• January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
• February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet^[20]
• February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
• February 25 – Russell Atkins (died 2024), African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
• March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
• March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
• April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
• May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
• May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
• May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
• June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
• June 5 – David Wagoner (died 2021), American poet and novelist
• June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
• June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
• June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
• July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
• July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
• July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
• August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
• September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
• November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
• November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist
• November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
• November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
• December 23 – Robert Bly (died 2021), American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
• December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet

Deaths

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

• January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
• January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
• April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
• May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
• June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
• July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
• August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
• October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
• November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
• December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• New Objectivity in German literature and art