1926 in poetry

Events

• The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I 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">Canadian poetry">Canada

• William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published.
• Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.
• E. J. Pratt, Titans, Toronto: Macmillan.
• Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Lost Shipmate. Toronto: Ryerson Chapbook.
• Duncan Campbell Scott, Collected Poems.
• Frederick George Scott, In Sun and Shade: A Book of Verse].

  India">Indian poetry">India in English">Indian poetry in English">in English

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

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems
• Edmund Blunden, English Poems
• W. H. Davies, The Birth of Song
• 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
• * Penny Wheep
• Edwin Muir, Chorus of the Newly Dead
• Laura Riding, The Close Chaplet
• Vita Sackville-West, The Land
• Siegfried Sassoon, Satirical Poems
• 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
• Humbert Wolfe:
• * Humoresque
• * News of the Devil
• W. B. Yeats, Autobiographies, volume 6 of the Collected Edition published by Macmillan

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy
• Hart Crane, White Buildings
• Countee Cullen, On These I Stand, Harper & Row
• E. E. Cummings, is 5
• John Gould Fletcher, Branches of Adam
• Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
• Vachel Lindsay:
• * Going to the Stars
• * The Candle in the Cabin
• Amy Lowell, East Wind
• Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World"
• Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem
• John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems
• Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
• Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected Poems
• Sara Teasdale, Dark of the Moon
• Edith Wharton, Twelve Poems
• 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 of New Zealand Verse, published in 1906, anthology
• Kenneth Slessor, Earth-Visitors, London: Fanfrolico Press, Australian poet published in the United Kingdom

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement Perpetuel, influenced by Surrealism
• Paul Éluard, pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:
• * Dessous d'une vie
• * Capitale de la douleur ; the poems influenced 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
• Pierre Jean Jouve:
• * Mystérieuses Noces
• * Nouvelles Noces

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

• Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language
• 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 called it a "veru useful and important ork for students of Gujarati literature"
• 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, some poems, short stories and essays on humor
• S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil

  Spanish language

Peru">Peruvian poetry">Peru

• Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas
• Alejandro Peralta, Ande
• Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra

  Other in Spanish

• Rafael Alberti, La amante ; Spain
• Germán List Arzubide, El movimiento estridentista, Mexico
• Federico García Lorca, Oda a Salvador Dalí, Spain
• Xavier Villaurrutia, Reflejos, Mexico

  Other languages

• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ha-Gavrut Ha-Olah, Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
• Tin Ujević, Kolajna, Croatian

  Awards and honors

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

  Births

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

  Deaths

• January 10 - Eino Leino, 47, Finnish poet and journalist
• January 20 - Charles Montagu Doughty, 82, English poet, writer and traveller
• April 7 - Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41, Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
• May 30 - Perceval Gibbon, 46, Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
• June 15 - Francis Joseph Sherman, 55, Canadian poet
• July 19 - Ada Cambridge, 81, English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
• August 1 - Israel Zangwill, 62, English writer and poet
• October 9 - Helena Nyblom, 82, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
• November 17 - George Sterling, 56, American poet
• December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, 51, German poet, from leukemia