1919 in poetry

• April 2 — Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family.
• October — W. B. Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920.^[1]
• December — The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct.
• Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
• The journal Littérature founded in France by André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon.^[2]
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) writes Notes on Thought and Vision, a prose work, published posthumously in 1982.

• Edwin James Brady, The House of the Winds
• John Le Gay Brereton, The Burning Marl, dedicated to "All who have fought nobly"
• C. J. Dennis, Jim of the Hills
• Shaw Neilson, Heart of Spring, Sydney, Bookfellow

• Charles G.D. Roberts, New Poems. (London: Constable).

• Swami Ananda Acharya, Snow-birds, London: Macmillan, Indian poetry in English^[3]
• Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, The Coloured Garden, Adyar, Madras: The Commonwealth Office; India, Indian poetry in English^[4]
• Ardeshir M. Modi, Spring Blossoms, London: Arthur H. Stockwell^[5]
• Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, Krishna's Flute and Other Poems, Bombay: Longmans^[4]

• Richard Aldington^[6]
  • Images of Desire
  • Images of War
• Swami Ananda Acharya, Snow-birds, London: Macmillan, Indian poetry in English^[3]
• May Wedderburn Cannan, The Splendid Days
• Eva Dobell, A Bunch of Cotswold Grasses
• Ernest Dowson (died 1900), The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, with a memoir by Arthur Symons
• John Drinkwater, Loyalties^[6]
• 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
• Ivor Gurney, War's Embers^[6]
• F. W. Harvey, Ducks^[7][8]
• Rudyard Kipling, The Years Between^[6]
• C. S. Lewis, writing as Clive Hamilton, Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics
• Bertram Lloyd, ed., The Paths of Glory: A collection of poems written during the War, 1914–1919^[9]
• Rose Macaulay, Three Days
• Carola Oman, The Menin Road, and other poems
• Ezra Pound, Quia Pauper Amavi^[10]
• Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems of Sigfried Sassoon^[6]
• Dora Sigerson (posthumous), Sixteen Dead Men, and Other Ballads of Easter Week^[6]
• Osbert Sitwell, Argonaut and Juggernaut^[6]
• J. C. Squire, The Birds and Other Poems^[6]
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
  • The Wild Swans at Coole, significant revision of the 1917 edition: has the poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"; contains: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "The Scholars" and "On being asked for a War Poem"^[6]
  • Two Plays for Dancers, (see also, Four Plays for Dancers, published in 1921)^[6]
  • A Prayer For My Daughter, first published in the November issue of Poetry magazine (later published in Michael Robartes and the Dancer in 1921)

• John Jay Chapman, Songs and Poems^[11]
• Babette Deutsch, Banners^[11]
• Vachel Lindsay, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, a poem chronicling William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign through the eyes of an idealistic sixteen-year-old
• Amy Lowell, Pictures of a Floating World^[11]
• Edgar Lee Masters, Starved Rock^[11]
• John G. Neihardt, The Song of Three Friends^[11]
• Ezra Pound, Quia Pauper Amavi^[10]
• John Crowe Ransom, Poems About God^[11]
• Charles Reznikoff, Rhythms II, including "The Idiot"
• Louis Untermeyer, editor, Modern American Poetry, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe; anthology, more than 130 poems, including "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight", by Vachel Lindsay and verse by Ezra Pound, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Emily Dickinson^[12]
• John Hall Wheelock, Dust and Light^[11]

• Paul Claudel, La Messe là-bas
• Léon-Paul Fargue, Poèmes^[13]
• Yvan Goll, ed., Le coeur de l’ennemi: Anthologie de poèmes contre la guerre
• Max Jacob, La Defense de Tartuffe^[2]
• Francis Jammes, La Vierge et les sonnets, Paris: Mercure de France^[14]
• Pierre Reverdy, La Guitare endormie^[2]

Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

• Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Bharatno Tankar (Parsi writing in Gujarati)^[15]
• Basavaraju Appa Rao, Selayeti ganamu, Telugu-language^[16]
• Duvvuri Rami Reddi, Krsivaludu, has been called the most prominent poem of the Telugu-language romantic movement; depicts peasants and rural life^[16]
• Gopala Krishna Pattanayak, Gopalakrsna Padyabali, Oriya-language, vaishnav lyrics, posthumous edition^[16]
• Jammuneshwar Khataniyar, Arun, her first collection of poems, Indian, Assamese-language^[16]
• Kumaran Asan, Malayalam-language:
  • Cintavistayaya Sita ("Sita's Story"),^[16][17]
  • Prarodanam, elegy on the death of A. R. Rajara Varma, a poet, critic and scholar; similar to Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais but with a distinctly Indian philosophical attitude^[16]
• Nilkanth Sharma Dal, Ramayana, Kashmiri-language poem based for the most part on the Ramacarita-Manas of Tulsidas^[16]
• Syama Sundara Das, editor, Parmala Raso, Hindi-language epic poem; written in a language mixing Brjibhasa, Kannauji and Bundeli, published by Kashi Nagari Pracharini Sabha^[16]

• Juan Ramón Jiménez, Piedra y cielo ("Stone and Sky"), Spain^[18]
• Ramón del Valle Inclán, La pipa de Kif ("Kif's Pipe"), Spain^[18]

• Alfonsina Storni, Without Remedy, Argentina

• António Botto, Cantares, Portugal
• Khalil Gibran, The Procession, long ode, Arabic^[17]
• Charles Gill, Le Cap Éternité: suivi des Étoiles filantes, French language, Canada^[19]
• Uri Zvi Greenberg, In tsaytns roysh ("In the tumult of the times"), verse and prose, Yiddish published in Austria-Hungary^[20]
• Kitahara Kakushu, Heretics, Japan^[17]
• Angiolo Silvio Novaro, Il Fabbro armonioso ("The Harmonious Blacksmith"), Italy
• Kurt Pinthus, editor, Menschheitsdämmerung ("The Twilight of Mankind"), anthology of Expressionist poetry, published in Berlin, Germany^[21][22]
• Anton Schnack, Strophen der Gier ("Verses of greed"), Der Abenteurer ("The adventurer") and Die tausend Gelächter ("The thousand laughs"), Germany
• Kurt Schwitters, "An Anna Blume" ("To Anna Flower" also translated as "To Eve Blossom"), widely noticed and controversial work variously described as a parody of a love poem, an emblem of the chaos and madness of the era, and as a harbinger of a new poetic language; much parodied; originally published in August in Der Sturm magazine, then later in the year in Schwitters' book, Anna Blume, Dichtungen, published by Verlag Paul Steegemann, Hannover (revised edition 1922), Germany
• Edith Sodergran, Gaudy Observations, Sweden^[17]
• August Stramm, Tropfblut, Germany, posthumous
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Allegria di naufragi ("The Joy of Shipwrecks") and La guerra ("The War"), Italy^[17]

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, Swiss poet and novelist
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 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 Morris Meredith, Jr. (died 2007), American poet
• January 14
  • Kaifi Azmi (died 2002), Indian, Hindi- and Urdu-language poet^[16] lyricist and songwriter
  • Syed Abdul Malik (died 2000), Indian, Assamese-language short-story writer and poet^[16]
• January 19 – Joan Brossa (died 1998), Spanish Catalan poet^[17]
• January 20 – Silva Kaputikyan (died 2006), Armenian poet
• February 12 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (died 2003), Bengali poet and Marxist^[16] (surname: Mukhopadhyay)^[17]
• March 17 – Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, عبدالرحمن پژواک (died 1995), Afghan, Pashto-language poet, novelist, playwright and diplomat^[17]
• March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born Lawrence Ferling (died 2021), American beat poet, painter and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore and publisher
• April 15 – Emyr Humphreys (died 2020), Welsh novelist, playwright and poet^[17]
• April 17 – J. Rodolfo Wilcock (died 1978), Argentine-born author, poet and translator
• May 28 – May Swenson (died 1989), American poet and playwright
• June 7 – Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub (died 1988), Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet
• July 19 – Miltos Sachtouris, Μίλτος Σαχτούρης (died 2005), Greek
• August 30 – Jiří Orten, born Jiří Ohrenstein (died 1941), Czech
• August 31 – Amrita Pritam (died 2005), Punjabi poet and novelist; a woman^[16]
• September 2 – Binod Chandra Nayak, Indian, Oriya-language poet^[16]
• September 3 – Edwin Honig (died 2011), American poet, critic and translator known for his English renditions of seminal works of Spanish and Portuguese literature^[23]
• September 7 – Louise Bennett-Coverley, aka "Miss Lou" (died 2006), Jamaican folklorist, writer and poet
• September 18 – M. Govindan (died 1988), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, short-story writer, playwright and essayist^[16][24]
• September 23 – Tōta Kaneko (died 2018), Japanese haiku poet
• September 26 – Matilde Camus (died 2012), Spanish poet and researcher
• September 29 – Ruth Dallas, born Ruth Mumford (died 2008), New Zealand poet
• October 1 – G. D. Madgulkar (died 1978), Indian, Marathi-language poet, songwriter and short-story writer^[16]
• November 4 – Patricia Beer (died 1999), English poet and critic
• November 11 – Hamish Henderson (died 2002), Scottish poet, folk song collector and soldier
• November 18 – Madeline DeFrees (died 2015), American poet
• Also:
  • Lance Jeffers (died 1985), African American
  • Michalis Katsaros (died 1998), Greek
  • Kuroda Saburu, Japanese (surname: Kuroda)^[17]
  • Bani Ray, Bengali writer, novelist, poet and critic, a woman^[16]
  • Buddhidhari Singha, Maithili-language poet and fiction writer
  • Girija Kumar Mathur (died 1994), Indian, Hindi-language poet^[16]
  • Yoshioka Minoru (died 1990), Japanese (surname: Yoshioka) ^[17]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 4 – Matilda Betham-Edwards (born 1836), English novelist, travel writer, poet and children's book author
• January 15 – Benjamin Paul Blood (born 1832), American philosopher and poet
• January 23 – Ram Ganesh Gadkari, writing poetry as Govindagraj (born 1885), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist^[16]
• January 27 – Endre Ady (born 1877), Hungarian^[17]
• February 5 – William Michael Rossetti (born 1839), English poet and essayist^[17]
• May 24 – Amado Nervo (died 1870), Mexican^[17]
• August 31 – Jóhann Sigurjónsson (born 1880), Icelandic playwright and poet^[17]
• October 6 – Ricardo Palma (born 1833), Peruvian novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and writer of short fiction^[17]
• October 30 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox (born 1850), American
• December 22 – Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (born 1836), American
• Also:
  • Akshay Kumar Boral (born 1860), Indian, Bengali-language poet^[16]
  • Brij Raj (born 1847), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet^[16]
  • Ganesh Janardan Agasha (born 1852), Indian, Marathi-language poet and literary critic^[16]
  • Narayan Waman Tilak (born 1861), Indian, Marathi-language Christian poet^[17]

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