1929 in poetry

Events

• The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication
• The Dial ceases publication

  Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Arthur Bourinot, 'Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children.
• Frederick George Scott, New Poems''.

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

• Raul De Loyola Furtado, The Desperrado, London: Chapman and Hall; Indian poet writing in English and published in the United Kingdom
• Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry, Allahabad: Indian Press,, poetry anthology ''

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes", London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:
• Edmund Blunden, Near and Far
• Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty
• W. H. Davies, Ambition, and Other Poems
• Cecil Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem
• T. S. Eliot:
• * Animula
• * "Som de l'escalina" was published in the Autumn, 1929 issue of Commerce along with a French translation.
• Aldous Huxley, Arabia Infelix, and Other Poems
• D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
• Louis MacNeice, Blind Fireworks
• Charlotte Mew, The Rambling Sailor
• William Plomer, The Family Tree
• I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study in Literary Judgement
• T. H. White, Loved Helen, and Other Poems
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
• * A Packet for Ezra Pound
• * The Winding Stair

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Léonie Adams, High Falcon
• Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems
• Djuna Barnes, A Night Among the Horses a collection of prose and poetry expanded from her 1923 volume, A Book
• Louise Bogan, Dark Summer
• Witter Bynner, Indian Earth
• James Branch Cabell, Sonnets from Antan
• Malcolm Cowley, Blue Juniata
• Countee Cullen, The Black Christ
• Emily Dickinson, Further Poems, 150 recently discovered poems; Little, Brown, & Company
• Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", Red Roses for Bronze
• Kenneth Fearing, Angel Arms
• Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas and Other Poems
• Vachel Lindsay, Every Soul is a Circus
• Edgar Lee Masters, The Fate of the Jury
• Lola Ridge, Firehead
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, Cavender's House
• E. B. White, The Lady is Cold
• Edmund Wilson, Poets, Farewell
• Elinor Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures

  Other in English

• Ursula Bethell, From a Garden in the Antipodes, "by Evelyn Hayes", London: Sidgwick & Jackson, New Zealand poet published in Britain:
• Robin Hyde, The Desolate Star, New Zealand
• Voices from Summerland, the first major anthology of Jamaican poetry
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
• * A Packet for Ezra Pound
• * The Winding Stair

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Louis Aragon, La Grande Gaite
• Jacques Audiberti, L'Empire et la Trappe, the author's first book of poems; winner of the Prix Mallarme
• Paul Éluard, L'Amour la poésie
• Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Poèmes
• Alphonse Métérié, Petit Maroc
• Henri Michaux:
• * Ecuador, poetry and prose
• * Mes Proprietés, may be considered prose poems
• Pierre Reverdy, Sources du vent
• J. Slauerhoff, Fleurs de Marécage'', Dutch poet writing in French, published in Belgium

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

Hindi">Hindi poetry">Hindi

• Jagannathdas Ratnakar, Uddhava Satak, written in Brajabhasa in the Bhramaragit tradition of Krishna Bhakti verse; Hindi
• Nirala Suryakant Tripathi, Parimal, Hindi poems influenced by Chayavadi sensibility; includes "Juhi Ki Kali", a well-known poem in Hindi; also includes "Vidhava" and "Badal Rag"
• Ram Kumar Varma, Cittaur Ki Cita, Hindi-language historical poem on the glory of the Rajputs written in the Chayavadi style
• Ram Naresh Tripathi, Svapna, Hindi epic poem on women and patriotism
• Ramachandra Shukla, Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas, one of the earliest and most influential histories of Hindi literature; scholarship
• Uday Shankar Bhatta, Takasila'', Hindi epic on the ancient glory of the city of Takshasila

  Malayalam">Malayalam poetry">Malayalam

• Narayana Panikkar, Kerala Bhasa Sahitya Caritram, literary history in seven volumes, published from this year to 1951; won the first Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature in 1955; scholarship
• P. K. Narayana Pillai, Tucattezhuttaccan, a study, in Malayalam of 16th-century poet Ezhuttacchan; criticism
• Ullur Paramesvara Iyer:
• * Pingala, a well known khandakavya
• * Karnabhusanam, on the episode in the Mahabharata in which Karna gives away his protective kavaca and kundals to Indra, disguised as a brahman

  Urdu">Urdu poetry">Urdu

• Hafiz Jalandhari, Shahnamah-yi Islam, a history of the Islamic Empire in four volumes of verse, published from this year to 1947
• Mohammad Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara
• Dr. Rafiq Hussain and Amar Nath Jha, Urdu ghazal ki nashv o numa, treatise on the evolution of the Urdu ghazal

  Other Indian languages

• Devulappali Krishna Shastri, written in Telugu:
• * Pravasamu, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
• * Urvasi, very influential in Telugu poetry of its time
• Dharmeshvari Devi Baruani, Phular Sarai, Assamese
• L. Kamal Singh, Lei pareng, Manipuri lyrics, many focusing on love for nature and solitude; academic and anthologist Sisir Kumar Das has called the work a landmark in Manipuri literature with which "modern Manipuri poetry began"
• Mu. Raghava Ayyankar, Alvarkal Kalanilai, literary history of the 12 Alvars, saint poets of the Vaishnava sect, with an evaluation of their works as influenced by various factors; a Tamil-language work
• Jasimuddin, Naksikathar Math, narrative poem in Bengali about a tragic love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl; a companion volume to Rakhali 1930 and Dhankhet 1932
• R. Narasimhachar, Karnataka Kavi Carite, Volume 3 of a three-volume history of Kannada literature, and written in that language ; scholarship
• Rabinidrath Thakur, Mahuya, primarily live poems in Bengali
• U. V. Swaminatha Ayyar, Cankattamilum Pirkalattamilum, essays summarizing 10 lectures delivered at Madras University in 1927 on Sangam literature and post-Sangam literature
• Vakil Ahmed Shah Qureshi, Qissa Sulaiman O Bilqis, sufistic narrative poem in Kashmiri
• Zeb-un-Nissa, Diwan-i-Makhfi, written in Persian

  Spanish language

Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

• Rafael Alberti:
• * Cal y canto
• * Sobre los ángeles
• Pedro Salinas, Seguro Azar
• José Moreno Villa, Jacinta la pelirroja

  American poetry|Latin America]]

• José María Eguren, Poesías, Peru
• Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 metros de poemas, Peru

  Other languages

• Alfred Desrochers, A l'ombre d'Orford, philosophical verse and poetry influenced by le terroir movement, French language, Canada
• Mikhail Kuzmin, The Trout Breaks the Ice, Russian language, Soviet Union
• Peider Lansel, Il vegl chalamêr, Romansh language, Switzerland
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, influential compilation of 10 letters sent to military academy cadet Franz Xaver Kappus from 1902 to 1908, published by Kappus and Insel Verlag this year; Germany

  Awards and honors

United States">American poetry">United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body

  Births

• January 9 - Heiner Müller, German
• January 11 - Peter Dale Scott, Canadian poet and academic
• January 12 - Turner Cassity, American
• February 16 - Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet. Part of what is referred to in Britain as The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.
• February 28 - John Montague, American-born Irish
• March 6 - Günter Kunert, German
• April 2 - Edward Dorn, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
• May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American poet
• June 2 - Robert Dana, American poet, poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004-2008
• June 11 - George Garrett, American poet and novelist
• July 15 - Rhoda Bulter, Scottish poet
• July 22 - U. A. Fanthorpe, born Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English
• August 5 - Al Alvarez, English poet, writer, editor and critic
• August 11 - Geeta Parikh, Gujarati
• August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American formalist poet, translator, anthologist and writer of children's literature
• August 29 - Thom Gunn, English-born poet
• September 26 - Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
• October 13 - Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
• October 21 - Donald Finkel, American poet and academic, husband of poet and novelist Constance Urdang
• October 23 - Shamsur Rahman , Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
• October 25 - Peter Rühmkorf, German writer and poet
• October 26 - Dane Zajc, Slovenian poet
• October 28 - John Hollander, American poet and literary critic
• November 11 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German
• December 9 - Don Maclennan, English-born South African poet, critic and academic

  Deaths

• March 8 - Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45, British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers
• March 28 - Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"
• June 8 - Bliss Carman, 68, Canadian poet
• July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet and dramatist
• October - Arno Holz, 66, German Naturalist poet and dramatist
• November 3 - Olav Aukrust, 46, Norwegian poet and teacher