1924 in poetry.html



Events

• October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily (he will return to settle in Rapallo in January 1925.¹

Works published

• Edwin James Brady, The Land of the Sun
• Hilda Conkling, Silverhorn
• Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Heliodora and Other Poems
• T. S. Eliot, Homage to John Dryden (criticism)
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), the first philosophical poetry book he wrote and published in Urdu rather than Persian (translated into English by M.A.K. Khalil in 1996)
• John Masefield, Sard Harker
• A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, for children
• Marianne Moore, Observations

Awards and honors

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes

Births

• February 8 — Lisel Mueller, American poet
• March 2 — Edgar Bowers (died 2000) American poet
• March 22 — Michael Hamburger (died 2007) British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
• April 2 — Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand poet
• May 12 — Claribel Alegria Nicaraguan native and novelist, poet and writer in Nicaragua and El Salvador
• June 7 — Edward Field, American poet and author
• June 29 — Cid Corman (died 2004), American poet, translator and editor
• August 28 — Janet Frame (died 2004) New Zealand poet, writer and novelist
• October 29 — Zbigniew Herbert (died 1998) Polish poet, essayist, moralist and member of the Polish resistance during World War II; perhaps the most famous and most translated of Polish writers
• November 28 — Dennis Brutus, South African poet
• December 20 — Friederike Mayrocker, Austrian
• December 24 — Nissim Ezekiel (died 2004), Indian poet, playwright and art critic writing in English
• Yehuda Amichai (died 2000) Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
• Elizabeth Bartlett

Date not known:

• • Jane Cooper
  • David Ferry, American poet and translator
  • John Haines, American poet

Deaths

• May 4 — Edith Nesbit, 65, English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name "E. Nesbit"
• July 19 — Kingsley Fairbridge, 39, South African editor of a poetry anthology and humanitarian
• date not known:
  • William Herbert Carruth
  • Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

Notes

1. ^ Ira B. Nadel (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X

See also

Poetry portal

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