September –
T. S. Eliot (with his first love, Emily Hale) visits the English
Cotswolds manor house and garden which gives rise to his poem Burnt Norton.
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Durbhaka Rajesekhara Satavadhani, Rana Pratapa Simha Caritra, called one of the "five modern epics", or Panca Kavya's in Telugu poetry; written in 5 cantos, with about 2,000 verses, in classical style, based on the Annals and Andiquities of Rajasthan by
James Dodd[16]
D. R. Bendre, also known as
Ambikatanaya Datta, Murtu Mattu Kamakasturi, long, philosophical poem in 11 parts and 15 love songs; influenced by
A.E.'s The Candle of Vision;
Kannada[16]
Masti Venkatesa Iyengar, Malara, a book that introduced the
sonnet form into
Kannada poetry; the 82 sonnets approach different subjects, including day-to-day life and the change of seasons, from a very religious point of view and in an uncomplicated, conversational style[16]
Pramathanath Bisi, Pracin Asami Haite, sonnets written from 1924 to 1927 from the most prolific published sonnet-writer in
Bengali; a companion volume, Bracin Parasik Haite, was published in the late 1960s[16]
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Savarakaranci Sphuta Kavita, including "Sagaras" ("To the Sea"), and patriotic poems such as "Maze Mrtypatra" ("My Will") and "Maranonmukh Sayyevar" ("Upon the death-bed"); by a
Marathi revolutionary[16]
April 12 –
Anselm Hollo (died
2013),
Finnish-
American poet and translator also resident for eight years in the United Kingdom, where his poems are included in British poetry anthologies.
October 7 –
Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones (died
2014), African-
American poet, playwright, essayist and music critic whose first wife is poet
Hettie Jones
March 25 –
Arthur Alfred Lynch (born
1861),
Australian-born,
Irish and
British civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath who served as a member of the
House of Commons after being convicted of treason, sentenced to death, having his sentence reduced and then being released (for having recruited volunteers for the
Boer side during the
Boer War, in
South Africa); towards the end of
World War I raised his own
Irish battalion
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