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Events
January 16 – English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; pallbearers at the ceremony include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. At the same time, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891 (Macmillan), in fact largely dictated by Hardy. September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others. November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More"). Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU (a Russian acronym for "An Association of Real Art"), an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky meet in New York City; they will become some of the founders of the Objectivist poets group. The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.
Works published in English
Canada
Dorothy Livesay, Green Pitcher. Toronto: Macmillan. Seranus, Later Poems and New Villanelles (Toronto: Ryerson). Arthur Stringer, A Woman At Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
India, in English
V. N. Bhusan, Silhouettes, Masulpatam: Youth of Asia Society; India, Indian poetry in English Joseph Furtado, A Goan Fiddler Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Chitor and Other Poems, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co.
United Kingdom
Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems, see also 1946
Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose, a lampoon, in rhyming couplets, on the cultural shortcomings of South Africa; South African native published in the United Kingdom, and at this time living there W. H. Davies, Collected Poems T. S. Eliot: "Perch' Io non Spero" (later to become part I of Ash Wednesday, published in 1930) was published in the Spring, 1928 issue of Commerce along with a French translation. A Song for Simeon printed in September by Faber & Gwyer as part of its Ariel poems series. H. S. Milford, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse of the Romantic Period, 1798–1837: 1798–1837, Clarendon Press, anthology Thomas Hardy, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, (posthumous) D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems John Masefield, Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse Laura Riding, Love as Love, Death as Death Siegfried Sassoon, The Heart's Journey A. J. A. Symons, An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse Humbert Wolfe: The Silver Cat, and Other Poems This Blind Rose W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom): The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)
United States
W. H. Auden, Poems
Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
E. E. Cummings, Christmas Tree
John Gould Fletcher, The Black Rock
Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
Robert Hillyer, The Seventh Hill
Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor and Other Poems
William Ellery Leonard, A Son of Earth
Archibald MacLeish, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem
Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party" Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun Ezra Pound: Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, American poet living in Europe A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889–1927 Carl Sandburg, Good Morning, America Allen Tate, Mr. Pope and Other Poems, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead" Amos Wilder, Arachne: poems, Yale University Press Elinor Wylie, Trivial Breath Louis Zukofsky completes the original versions of "A" 1, 2, 3 and 4, which have been compared to Pound's Cantos; the fragmentary long poem will be a lifelong project
Other in English
John Le Gay Brereton, Swags Up, Australia
Roy Campbell, The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, South Africa
W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: The Tower, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Leda and the Swan", Irish The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary (poetry)