1924 in poetry

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yp2=1922
yp3=1923
year=1924
ya1=1925
ya2=1926
ya3=1927
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dp2=1900s
dp1=1910s
d=1920s
da=0
dn1=1930s
dn2=1940s
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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. [Ira B. Nadel (editor), "The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound," page xxii. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-64920-X]

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, ""

Births

* 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 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
* 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
* Edgar Bowers
* Dennis Brutus, South African poet
* Jane Cooper
* Lauris Edmond (died 2000), New Zealand
* David Ferry
* Edward Field
* Michael Hamburger
* John Haines
* Lisel Mueller, 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

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry