Overview of the events of 1926 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1926 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in other languages
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later become India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Ahmad Din, Iqbal, a critical work on the poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Indian, Urdu-language[16]
- Mohanlal Dalicand Desai, Jain Gurjar Kavio, Volume 1, literary history written in Gujarati, delving into Jain poets and including a list of manuscripts; in 1995, Indian literary scholar Sisir Kumar Das calls it a "very useful and important work for students of Gujarati literature" (see also Volume 2 in 1931, Volume 3 1964)[16]
- Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Kavita Ane Sahitya, four volumes of Gujarati poetry and prose; Volume 1, articles on prosody and rhetoric; Volume 2, articles on practical criticism; Volume 3, occasional lectures and essays; Volume 4 (published in 1929), some poems, short stories and essays on humor[16]
- S. Sonusundara Bharati, Tacaratan Kuraiyum Kaikeyi Niraiyum, literary criticism in Tamil[16]
Spanish language
- Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Antipoemas[17]
- Alejandro Peralta, Ande[18]
- Enrique Peña Barrenechea, El aroma en la sombra[18]
Other in Spanish
Other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass (died 2009), American poet, academic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960
- February 4 – Albert Saijo (died 2011), Japanese-American poet[20]
- February 18 – A. R. Ammons (died 2001), American author and poet
- February 25 – Russell Atkins, African-American concrete poet, musician and playwright
- March 3 – James Merrill (died 1995), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977
- March 22 – Alastair Reid (died 2014), Scottish poet and scholar of South American literature
- April 18 – Niranjan Bhagat (died 2018), Indian poet and critic writing in Gujarati and English
- May 4 – Allen Mandelbaum (died 2011), American poet and translator
- May 21 – Robert Creeley (died 2005), American poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets
- May 26 – Phyllis Gotlieb (died 2009), Canadian science fiction novelist and poet
- June 3 – Allen Ginsberg (died 1997), American Beat poet
- June 5 – David Wagoner, American poet and novelist
- June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973), Austrian poet and author
- June 27 – Frank O'Hara (died 1966), American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry
- June 29 – James K. Baxter (died 1972), New Zealand poet
- July 7 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (died 2020), Indian Urdu poet
- July 17 – Nikos Karouzos (died 1990), Greek poet
- July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings (died 2001), English poet
- August 15 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali poet and playwright
- September 1 – James Reaney (died 2008), Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic
- November 5 – John Berger (died 2017), English novelist, painter, art critic and poet
- November 11 – José Manuel Caballero (died 2021) Spanish poet and novelist
- November 23 – Christopher Logue (died 2011), English poet, playwright, screen writer and actor associated with the British Poetry Revival
- November 24 – Paul Blackburn (died 1971), American poet
- December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet, author and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement in the United States
- December 26 – Nabakanta Barua, also known as Ekhud Kokaideu (died 2002), Assamese-language Indian novelist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Eino Leino, 47 (born 1878), Finnish poet and journalist
- January 20 – Charles Montagu Doughty, 82 (born 1843), English poet, writer and traveller
- April 7 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, 41 (born 1885), Japanese late Meiji period and Taishō period poet (surname of this pen name: Ozaki)
- May 30 – Perceval Gibbon, 46 (born 1879), Welsh-born journalist, short-story writer and poet
- June 15 – Francis Joseph Sherman, 55 (born 1871), Canadian poet
- July 19 – Ada Cambridge (married name was Cross, but she kept her maiden name as her pen name), 81 (born 1844), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- August 1 – Israel Zangwill, 62 (born 1864), English writer and poet
- October 9 – Helena Nyblom, 82 (born 1843), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
- November 17 – George Sterling, 56 (born 1869), American poet
- December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, 51 (born 1875), German poet, from leukemia