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— Opening lines from ''The Waste Land'' by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * February 2 * * ''Who Goes with Fergus?'' by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel ''Ulysses'', first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it. The poem is Joyce's favorite lyric, and he has composed his own musical setting. * * In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at the Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his ''Sonnets to Orpheus'' (''Die Sonette an Orpheus'') and completes his ''Duino Elegies'' (''Duineser Elegien''). * April – ''The Fugitive'' is established in Nashville, Tennessee, by John Crowe Ransom and other members of the Vanderbilt University English faculty who become known collectively as the Fugitives. * June – Over a single night at his home in Shaftsbury, Vermont, Robert Frost completes the long poem "New Hampshire" and at sunrise writes "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".〔''Sic''. Both first published in the collection ''New Hampshire'' (1923).〕 * September 22 – Indian Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" ("The Advent of the Delightful Mother"), in support of the Indian independence movement, in the ''Puja'' issue of his new biweekly magazine ''Dhumketu'', for which he is arrested by the police of the Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of sedition for much of the following year, undertaking a hunger strike and composing many poems while in prison. His poem "Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, "The Rebel", December 1921) is first collected this year in his first anthology, ''Agnibeena''. * October 15 – T. S. Eliot establishes ''The Criterion'' magazine, containing the first publication of his poem ''The Waste Land''. This first appears in the United States later this month in ''The Dial'' (dated November 1) and is first published complete with notes in book form by Boni and Liveright in New York in December. * November – Robert Bridges publishes his essay on free verse: 'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum'. * December 6 – W. B. Yeats becomes a nominated member of the Seanad Éireann in the Irish Free State. * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1922 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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