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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Imagist poets 2 Works published in English 3 Works published in other languages 4 Awards and honors 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 See also 8 References

Events

• Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others.^[1] Yeats writes the preface to the English translation of Tagore's Gitanjali
• H. E. Monro edits The Poetry Review, journal of the Poetry Recital Society
• Harriet Munroe founds Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); in 1912 she described its policy this way:

“

The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine—may the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! To this end the editors hope to keep free from entangling alliances with any single class or school. They desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written. Nor will the magazine promise to limit its editorial comments to one set of opinions.

”

Imagist poets

• Three poets meet and work out the principles of Imagist poetry. The most prominent of the poets, Ezra Pound, later writes about the formulation in 1954:^[2]

“

In the spring or early summer of 1912, 'H.D.' [Hilda Doolittle], Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following: 1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.

”

• At a meeting with Doolittle and Aldington in the British Museum tea room, Pound appends the signature H.D. Imagiste to Doolittle's poetry, creating a label that was to stick to the poet for most of her writing life

• October — Pound submits to Poetry: A Magazine of Verse three poems each by Doolittle and Aldington under the label Imagiste. Aldington's poems were printed in the November issue, and H.D.'s appeared in the January 1913 issue. The March 1913 issue of Poetry also contained Pound's A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history meant that Imagism, although London-based, had its first readership in the United States.

Works published in English

• Anna Akhmatova, Evening, her first collection
• Pauline Johnson, Flint and Feather
• Sir Edward Marsh, Georgian Poetry 1911-12, an anthology
• Ezra Pound:
  • Ripostes, London^[3]
  • Translator, The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, London^[3]
• Robert Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
• Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

Works published in other languages

• Gottfried Benn, Morgue und andere Gedichte ("Morgue and other Poems") (Berlin), Germany

Awards and honors

Births

• February 11 — Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (died 1991)
• February 27 — Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (died 1990)
• May 8 — George Woodcock (died 1995), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
• July 14 — Northrop Frye, Canadian critic
• September 10 — William Everson (also known as "Brother Antoninus") (died 1994), American poet, author, literary critic, and small-press printer
• September 12 — J. F. Hendry, poet
• December 9 — Denis Glover (died 1980) New Zealand poet and publisher

Deaths

• January 16 — Georg Heym (born 1887), German poet
• Dates unknown:
  • Hafiz Ibrahim, Egyptian poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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References

1. ^ Dutta & Robinson 1995, pp. 178-179.
2. ^ Pound, Ezra, "A Retrospect" (Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1954)
3. ^ ^{a b} Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121

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