1919 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
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Years:	1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922

The Egoist, goes defunct

Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family.
The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct
October — William Butler Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920.^[1]

Edwin James Brady, The House of the Winds
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Notes on Thought and Vision written, published posthumously in 1982
T. S. Eliot, Ara Vos Prec, including "Gerontion" and the poems later published in Poems – 1920; his "Tradition and the Individual Talent" appears in The Egoist
Kurt Pinthus, editor, Menscheitsdämerung ("“The Twilight of Mankind”)"), anthology of Expressionist poetry, published in Berlin, (German)^[2]^[3]
Ezra Pound, Quia Pauper Amavi^[4]
Charles Reznikoff, Rhythms II, including "The Idiot"
William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole^[5]

January 7 - Robert Duncan (died 1988), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation, and a key player in the San Francisco Renaissance.
January 9 — William Meredith, American poet
March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American beat poet
May 28 — May Swenson, (died 1989, American poet and playwright
July 19 — Miltos Sachtouris, Greek
September 7 — Louise Bennett-Coverley, aka "Miss Lou" (died 2006), Jamaican folklorist, writer, and poet
September 26 — Matilde Camus, Spanish poet, and researcher.
date not known:
- Ruth Dallas (New Zealand)
- Madeline DeFrees
- Jiri Orten (Czechoslovakia)
- Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (died 1978), Argentine author and poet

^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 132
^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
^ Weisstein, Ulrich, "Expressionism in Literature", article in the online "Dictionary of the History of Ideas", accessed April 25, 2008
^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 132

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