1925 in poetry

Events

• January - Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before.
• February 11 - Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana".
• February 21 - First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.
• November 21 - First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
• December 28 - Russian poet Sergei Yesenin writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye", in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad.
• T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishing house of Faber and Gwyer.
• An unofficial ban by Soviet authorities on poetry by Anna Akhmatova begins; she will be unable to publish until 1940.

  Works published

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Arthur Bourinot, Pattering Feet: A book of childhood verses.
• Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth: Sonnets and Ballads, Duncan Campbell Scott ed. Posthumously published - not to be confused with Lampman's 1895 book of the same name.
• Marjorie Pickthall:
• *Little Songs
• *The Complete Poems of Marjorie Pickthall.
• E. J. Pratt, The Witches' Brew, Toronto: Macmillan.
• Charles G. D. Roberts. The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems..
• Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Seven Poems. private.
• Seranus, Songs of Love and Labor.

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

• Shyam Sunder Lal Chordia, Seeking and Other Poems, Allahabad: The Indian Press
• M. U. Malkani and T. H. Advani, The Longing Lute, Karachi: Kohinoor Printing Works

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Edmund Blunden, Masks of Time
• Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years
• Robert Bridges:
• * New Verse Written in 1921 which included his Neo-Miltonic syllabics
• * The Tapestry: Poems
• W. H. Davies, A Poet's Alphabet
• Cecil Day-Lewis, Beechen, Vigil, and Other Poems
• T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925, including "The Hollow Men"
• Robert Graves, Welchman's Hose
• Graham Greene, Babbling April
• Thomas Hardy, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles, the last work published in the author's lifetime
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Sangshaw
• Edwin Muir, First Poems
• Edith Sitwell, Troy Park
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Espalier
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Humbert Wolfe, The Unknown Goddess
• W. B. Yeats, A Vision

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Léonie Adams, Those Not Elect
• Maxwell Anderson, You Who Have Dreams
• Stephen Vincent Benét, Tiger Joy
• Countee Cullen:
• *On These I Stand, Harper & Row
• * Color
• E. E. Cummings:
• * &
• * XLI Poems
• Babette Deutsch, Honey Out of the Rock
• Hilda Doolittle, Collected Poems of H.D.
• John Gould Fletcher, Parables
• Robert Hillyer, The Halt in the Garden
• Robinson Jeffers, Roan Stallion
• William Ellery Leonard, Two Lives
• Archibald MacLeish, The Pot of Earth
• Ezra Pound, A Draft of XVI Cantos, Paris
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysius in Doubt
• Eli Siegel, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana"
• Ridgely Torrence, Hesperides

  Other in English

• W. B. Yeats, A Vision, Ireland

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le cortege priapique, posthumously published
• Louis Aragon, Le Mouvement perpétuel
• Antonin Artaud:
• * L'ombilic des limbes, poetry and essays, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française
• * Le Pese-nerfs
• André Breton, Clair de terre
• Paul Claudel, Feuilles de saints
• Max Jacob, Les Penitants en maillots roses
• Francis Jammes:
• * Brindilles pour rallumer la foi, Paris: Éditions Spes
• * Livres des quatrains, published each year from 1922 to this year
• Raymond Radiguet, Les Joues en feu, published posthumously
• Pierre Reverdy, Grande Nature
• Jules Supervielle, Gravitations
• Charles Vildrac, Poèmes de l'Abbaye

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Hindi">Hindi poetry">Hindi

• Jayashankar Prasad, Asu, Chayavadi poem on love and beauty
• Maithilisharan Gupta, Pancavati, a khanda kavya based on the Ram legend
• Mohan Lal Mahato Viyogi, Achuta, verses on social and political problems

  Telugu">Telugu poetry">Telugu

• Devulapalli Krishna Shastri, Krishna Paksham, a very prominent work of Telugu romantic literature
• Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao, Yenki Patalu, 35 lyrics in the language of common folk, on romantic love and the beauty of nature; a prominent work of modern Telagu poetry about "Enki" or "Yenki", a devoted, simple, country woman of Andhra dedicated to her lover, Naidu Bava "Yenki and her beloved Nayudu Bava have become living legends in modern Telugu literature", according to C. R. Sarma
• Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Jada Kucculu, lyrics
• Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Kinnerasani patalu and Kokilamma Pelli, two works published in the same volume

  Other Indian languages

• Altaf Husain Hali, Intikhab-i Sukhan, 11-volume anthology of Urdu poetry published from this year to 1943; each volume contains poems from several authors
• Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Sandeshika
• Dimbeshwar Neog, Thupitra, Assamese-language
• Keshavkumar, also known as P. K. Atre, Jhendici Phule, Marathi satirical and humorous poems
• Rabindranath Thakur, Purabi, Bengali, includes love poems
• Sita Nath Brahma Chaudhury, Kamal Kali, Assamese
• Syed jalal, Mahakmah-yi Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, Hali Ki inshapardazi par, work of Urdu criticism; a study of four Urdu poets: Nazir Ahmad, Shibli, Azad, and Hali
• D. T. Tatacharya, Kapinam Upavasah, satirical Sanskrit poem
• Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhury, Suta puranamu, Telugu epic in four cantos

  Spanish language

• Rafael Alberti, Marinero en tierra ; Spain
• Rafael Méndez Dorich, Sensacionario, Peruvian poet published in Argentina
• José Gorostiza, Canciones para cantar en las barcas, Mexico
• Salvador Novo, XX Poemas, Mexico
• Miguel de Unamuno, De Fuerteventura a París, Spain

  Other languages

• Sophus Claussen, Heroica, including "Atomernes Opror", Denmark
• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Eymah Gedolah Ve-Yareah, Hebrew language, Mandatory Palestine
• Lionel Léveillé, Chante, rossignol, chante, French language, Canada
• Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, first edition; second edition, 1928, with six new poems and an introduction by Alfredo Gargiulo; third edition, 1931, Lanciano: Carabba; Italy

  Awards and honors

• Dial Award: E.E. Cummings
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice

  Births

• January 14 - Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威, Japanese author, poet and playwright
• January 20 - Jamiluddin Aali جمیل الدین عالی, Indian-born Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar
• February 8 - Francis Webb Australian poet
• February 20 - Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet and teacher
• February 22 - Gerald Stern, American
• February 27 - Kenneth Koch American poet, playwright, professor and prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry
• March 10 - Manolis Anagnostakis Greek poet and critic
• March 13 - Inge Müller East German
• March 14 - John Wain English poet, novelist and critic associated with the literary group The Movement.
• March 25 - Theodore Enslin, American
• April 18 - Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
• June 6 - Maxine Kumin, American poet and author; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982
• July 4 - Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet and politician
• August 1 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet, author and translator
• August 12 - Donald Justice, American poet and writing teacher
• August 16 - Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Azerbaijani poet and philologist
• September 16 - Samuel Menashe, American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004
• October 8 - Philip Booth, American poet and educator
• October 28 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
• November 15 - Heinz Piontek, German
• November 27 - Munier Choudhury, Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
• December 10 - Carolyn Kizer, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985
• December 12 - Laurence Lerner, South African-born poet and academic

  Deaths

• January 31 - George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet
• February 15 - Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄, pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu, Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet
• February 22 - Nina Salaman, 47, English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry; cancer
• May 12 - Amy Lowell, 51, American poet of the imagist school; posthumously wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
• June 6 - Pierre Louÿs, 54, French poet
• June 17 - A. C. Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory"
• June 27 - A. D. Godley, 69, Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
• September 11 - Gustav Kastropp, 81 German poet and librettist
• October 27 - Darrell Figgis, 43, Irish poet and nationalist; suicide
• December 28 - Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet