Musings on the Book, Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the Arts, and Audio Interviews from The Biblio File radio program pertaining to same by a writer, broadcaster, bibliophile.
George Woodcock, Canadian author, critic, anarchist.
2012 marks the centenary of these literary events:
Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf
Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence
Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore brings translated work to England and impresses William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, among others.
Harriet Munroe founds Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); describes its policy as: “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."
‘H.D.’ [Hilda Doolittle], Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound meet in the British Museum tearoom to discuss ‘Imagist’ poetry.
New books:
Joseph Conrad – The Secret Sharer
Zane Grey – Riders of the Purple Sag
James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
D. H. Lawrence – The Trespasser
Stephen Leacock – Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Thomas Mann – Death in Venice
Carl Jung – Theory of Psychoanalysis
Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali,
Walter de la Mare, The Listeners, and Other Poems
T. E. Hulme, The Complete Poetical Works
Rudyard Kipling, Collected Verse
Ezra Pound, Ripostes
Jean Cocteau, La Danse de Sophocle
Births
- Nikiforos Vrettakos Greek writer, poet
- George Woodcock Canadian poet, biographer, academic, anarchist
- John Enoch Powell, Poet and MP
- Northrop Frye, Canadian critic
- F. T. Prince South African British poet and academic
- John Jefferson Bray Australian writer
- Barbara Tuchman, American historian
- Roy Fuller English poet/novelist
- Lawrence Durrell, British poet and novelist
- May Sarton, American writer
- John Cheever, American writer
- John Toland, British historian and biographer
- Eugène Ionesco, Italian playwright
Deaths
- Harry Elkin Widener Bibliophile, (b. 1885) drowned on the titanic
- Bram Stoker, author (b. 1847)
- August Strindberg, dramatist (b. 1849)
- Andrew Lang, poet, novelist and critic (b. 1844)
Related posts:
- Criticism’s Trade Secret: Every Book is like the Bible
- A facile, essential question: Who’s the better literary critic: Wood or Updike?
- Menand on Moody on Pound
- Nigel Beale’s Comprehensive Literary Criticism Reading List
- Audio Interview: Prof. David Staines on Northrop Frye, Evaluative Criticism, John Metcalf, and the best Canadian novels
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December 25th, 2011 at 9:37 PM
What a fantastic time for poetry it was 100 years ago.
March 27th, 2012 at 5:43 PM
great audio books…
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