1929 in poetry

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

Events

• April 29 – In the course of a domestic argument in London between poets and writers Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Geoffrey Phibbs and Graves's wife Nancy Nicholson, Riding and Graves jump from windows, she sustaining life-threatening injuries.^[1] Later this year, Graves and Riding go to live together in Majorca. Graves's autobiography Good-Bye to All That is published this year, also.
• The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication.
• The Dial ceases publication.

Works published in English

Canada

• Arthur Bourinot, Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children.^{[citation needed]}
• Frederick George Scott, New Poems.^[2]

India, in English

• Raul De Loyola Furtado (Poetry in English), The Desperrado, London: Chapman and Hall; Indian poet writing in English and published in the United Kingdom^[3]
• Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry (Poetry in English), Allahabad: Indian Press, (second edition Bombay: Hind Kitabs, 1951), poetry anthology^[4]

United Kingdom

• Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:^[5]
• Edmund Blunden, Near and Far^[6]
• Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty^[6]
• W. H. Davies, Ambition, and Other Poems^[6]
• Cecil Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem^[6]
• T. S. Eliot:
  • Animula^[6]
  • "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.^[7]
• Aldous Huxley, Arabia Infelix, and Other Poems^[6]
• D. H. Lawrence, Pansies^[6]
• Louis MacNeice, Blind Fireworks^[6]
• Charlotte Mew, The Rambling Sailor^[6]
• William Plomer, The Family Tree^[6]
• I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement
• T. H. White, Loved Helen, and Other Poems
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
  • A Packet for Ezra Pound
  • The Winding Stair

United States

• Léonie Adams, High Falcon^[8]
• Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems^[8]
• Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A Book
• Louise Bogan, Dark Summer^[8]
• Witter Bynner, Indian Earth^[8]
• James Branch Cabell, Sonnets from Antan^[8]
• Malcolm Cowley, Blue Juniata^[8]
• Countee Cullen, The Black Christ^[8]
• Emily Dickinson, Further Poems,^[8] 150 recently discovered poems; Little, Brown, & Company
• Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", Red Roses for Bronze^[8]
• Kenneth Fearing, Angel Arms^[8]
• Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other Poems^[8]
• Vachel Lindsay, Every Soul is a Circus^[8]
• Edgar Lee Masters, The Fate of the Jury^[8]
• Lola Ridge, Firehead^[8]
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, Cavender's House^[8]
• E. B. White, The Lady is Cold^[8]
• Edmund Wilson, Poets, Farewell^[8]
• Elinor Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures^[8]

Other in English

• Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes" (pseudonym), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:^[5]
• Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New Zealand
• Voices from Summerland, the first major anthology of Jamaican poetry^[9]
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
  • A Packet for Ezra Pound
  • The Winding Stair

Works published in other languages

France

• Louis Aragon, La Grande Gaite^[10]
• Jacques Audiberti, L'Empire et la Trappe, the author's first book of poems; winner of the Prix Mallarme^[11]
• Paul Éluard, L'Amour la poésie^[10]
• Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Poèmes^[10]
• Alphonse Métérié, ''Petit Maroc^[11]
• Henri Michaux:
  • Ecuador, poetry and prose^[10]
  • Mes Proprietés ("My Properties"), may be considered prose poems^[12]
• Pierre Reverdy, Sources du vent^[10]
• J. Slauerhoff, Fleurs de Marécage, Dutch poet writing in French, published in Belgium

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

• Jagannathdas Ratnakar, Uddhava Satak, written in Brajabhasa in the Bhramaragit tradition of Krishna Bhakti verse; Hindi^[13]
• Nirala Suryakant Tripathi, Parimal, Hindi poems influenced by Chayavadi sensibility; includes "Juhi Ki Kali", a well-known poem in Hindi; also includes "Vidhava" and "Badal Rag"^[13]
• Ram Kumar Varma, Cittaur Ki Cita, Hindi-language historical poem on the glory of the Rajputs written in the Chayavadi style^[13]
• Ram Naresh Tripathi, Svapna, Hindi epic poem on women and patriotism^[13]
• Ramachandra Shukla, Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas, one of the earliest and most influential histories of Hindi literature; scholarship^[13]
• Uday Shankar Bhatta, Takasila, Hindi epic on the ancient glory of the city of Takshasila^[13]

Malayalam

• Narayana Panikkar, Kerala Bhasa Sahitya Caritram, literary history in seven volumes, published from this year to 1951; won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature in 1955; scholarship^[13]
• P. K. Narayana Pillai, Tucattezhuttaccan, a study, in Malayalam of 16th-century poet Ezhuttacchan; criticism^[13]
• Ullur Paramesvara Iyer:
  • Pingala, a well known khandakavya^[13]
  • Karnabhusanam, on the episode in the Mahabharata in which Karna gives away his protective kavaca and kundals to Indra, disguised as a brahman^[13]

Urdu

• Hafiz Jalandhari, Shahnamah-yi Islam, a history of the Islamic Empire in four volumes of verse, published from this year to 1947^[13]
• Mohammad Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara ("The Caravan Bell")
• Dr. Rafiq Hussain and Amar Nath Jha, Urdu ghazal ki nashv o numa, treatise on the evolution of the Urdu ghazal^[13]

Other Indian languages

• Devulappali Krishna Shastri, written in Telugu:
  • Pravasamu, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time^[13]
  • Urvasi, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
• Dharmeshvari Devi Baruani, Phular Sarai, Assamese^[13]
• L. Kamal Singh, Lei pareng ("Garland"), Manipuri lyrics, many focusing on love for nature and solitude; academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das has called the work a landmark in Manipuri literature with which "modern Manipuri poetry began"^[13]
• Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Alvarkal Kalanilai, literary history of the 12 Alvars, saint poets of the Vaishnava sect, with an evaluation of their works as influenced by various factors; a Tamil-language work^[13]
• Jasimuddin, Naksikathar Math, narrative poem in Bengali about a tragic love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl; a companion volume to Rakhali 1930 and Dhankhet 1932^[13]
• R. Narasimhachar, Karnataka Kavi Carite, Volume 3 of a three-volume history of Kannada literature, and written in that language (see also Volume 1, 1907); scholarship^[13]
• Rabinidrath Thakur, Mahuya, primarily live poems in Bengali^[13]
• U. V. Swaminatha Ayyar, Cankattamilum Pirkalattamilum, essays summarizing 10 lectures delivered at Madras University in 1927 on Sangam literature and post-Sangam literature^[13]
• Vakil Ahmed Shah Qureshi, Qissa Sulaiman O Bilqis, sufistic narrative poem in Kashmiri^[13]
• Zeb-un-Nissa (died 1702), Diwan-i-Makhfi, written in Persian

Spanish language

Spain

• Rafael Alberti:
  • Cal y canto ("Lime and Song")^[14]
  • Sobre los ángeles ("Over the Angels")^[14]
• Pedro Salinas, Seguro Azar (1924–1928) ("Certain Chance")^[14]
• José Moreno Villa, Jacinta la pelirroja ("Jacinta the Redhead")^[14]

Latin America

• José María Eguren, Poesías, Peru^[15]
• Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas, Peru^[16]

Other languages

• Alfred Desrochers, A l'ombre d'Orford, philosophical verse and poetry influenced by le terroir movement, French language, Canada^[17]
• Halina Konopacka, Któregoś dnia (Some Day), Poland
• Mikhail Kuzmin, The Trout Breaks the Ice, Russian language, Soviet Union
• Peider Lansel, Il vegl chalamêr, Romansh language, Switzerland
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to military academy cadet Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) from 1902 to 1908, published by Kappus and Insel Verlag this year; Germany

Awards and honors

United States

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

Births

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

• January 9 – Heiner Müller (died 1995), German
• January 11 – Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic
• January 12 – Turner Cassity, American
• February 16 – Peter Porter (died 2010), Australian-born British poet, member of The Group, recipient of Medal of the Order of Australia
• February 28 – John Montague (died 2016), American-born Irish
• March 6 – Günter Kunert (died 2019), German
• April 2 – Edward Dorn (died 1999), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
• May 16 – Adrienne Rich (died 2012), American poet
• June 2 – Robert Dana (died 2010), American, poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004 to 2008^[18]
• June 11 – George Garrett (died 2008), American poet and novelist
• July 13 – Teresa Bogusławska (died 1945), Polish poet and resistance worker
• July 15 – Rhoda Bulter (died 1994), Scottish poet
• July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe (died 2009), born Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English
• August 5 – Al Alvarez (died 2019), English poet, writer, editor and critic
• August 11 – Geeta Parikh (died 2012), Gujarati
• August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
• August 29 – Thom Gunn (died 2004), English-born poet
• September 26 – Ned O'Gorman (died 2014), American poet and educator
• October 13 – Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
• October 21 – Donald Finkel (died 2008), American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance Urdang^[19]
• October 23 – Shamsur Rahman (also spelled "Shamsur Ruhman") (died 2006), Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
• October 25 – Peter Rühmkorf (died 2008), German writer and poet
• October 26 – Dane Zajc (died 2005), Slovenian poet
• October 28 – John Hollander (died 2013), American poet and literary critic
• November 11 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger (died 2022), German poet and essayist^[20]
• December 9 – Don Maclennan (died 2009), English-born South African poet, critic and academic^[21]

Deaths

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

• February 27 – Libbie C. Riley Baer (born 1849), American patriotic poet
• 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 known 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
• October – Arno Holz, 66 (born 1863), German Naturalist poet and dramatist
• November 3 – Olav Aukrust, 46 (born 1883), Norwegian poet and teacher

See also

• Poetry portal

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