Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published in English - Paul Hiebert, Sara Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan", Canadian
- Archibald Lampman, Selected Poems, edited by Duncan Campbell Scott, published posthumously[1]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, The Circle of Affection, prose and verse[1]
- John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadian's: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology[2]
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal: - W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety", English native living in the United States
- Kingsley Amis, Bright November[4]
- Patrick Kavanagh, A Soul For Sale[4]
- Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter[4]
- Laurie Lee, The Bloom of Candles[4]
- Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
- John Pudney, Low Life[4]
- Alan Ross, The Derelict Day[4]
- Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication[4]
- Terence Tiller, Unarm, Eros[4]
- Henry Treece, The Haunted Garden[4]
- Conrad Aiken, The Kid[5]
- W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety,[5] English native living in the United States
- R. P. Blackmur, The Good European[5]
- Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- Witter Bynner, Take Away the Darkness[5]
- John Ciardi, Other Skies[5]
- Louis Coxe, The Sea Faring[5]
- August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
- Robert Duncan, Heavenly City, Earthly City[5]
- Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks,[5] including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
- Robert Frost, Steeple Bush[5]
- Jean Garrigue, The Ego and the Centaur[5]
- Langston Hughes, Fields of Wonder[5]
- Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians[5] (his second book of poetry)
- Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law[5]
- John Frederick Nims, The Iron Pastoral[5]
- Kenneth Patchen, Panels for the Walls of Heaven[5]
- Karl Shapiro, Trial of a Poet[5]
- William Jay Smith, Poems[5]
- Wallace Stevens, Transport to Summer, includes "The Pure Good of Theory," "A Word With Jose Rodriguez-Feo," "Description without Place," "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," and "Esthetique du Mal"), Knopf[6]
- Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock
- Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Ombre de mon amour, publisher: P. Cailler Vesenaz, (revised edition titled Poemes a Lou 1955), posthumously published (died 1918)[7]
- Antonin Artaud:
- Artaud le momo Paris: Bordas[8]
- Ce-git, precede de la culture indienne, Paris: K Editeur[8]
- André Breton, Ode a Charles Fourier[9]
- Jean Cayrol:
- Je vivrai l'amour des autres[10]
- On vous parle, winner of the Prix Renaudot[10]
- Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser, a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916; all of his poetry (which he stopped writing in 1924) was published this year in these two volumes:
- Du monde entier[9]
- Au coeur du monde[9]
- Jean Follain, Exister[9]
- Eugène Guillevic, Exécutoire, poems written during the German occupation of France[10]
- Pierre Jean Jouve:
- Hymne[9]
- Requiem, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mermod, French author published in Switzerland[11]
- Marie Noël cyhants et Pasaumes d'automne[10]
- Henri Pichette, Apoèmes[10]
- Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style[10]
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Kedarnath Agarwal:
- Nind Ke Badal, written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the Pragativadi movement[12]
- Yug Ki Ganga, poems in the Pragativadi tradition[12]
- Mishra Dvarika Prasad, epic based on Krishna legends from the Mahabharata, Srimadbhagvata, Sursagar and Sisupalavadha, with contemporary elements; written in 1942 but published this year[12]
- Ram Dahin Mishra, Kavya Darpan, comparing Indian and Western poetics; literary criticism[12]
- Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Samadheni[12]
- Sumitranandan Pant:
- Svarn dhuli, a translation of Swami Vivekanand's Song of the Sanyasin into Hindi is included under the title Sanyasi Ke Git[12]
- Svarna Kiran[12]
[edit] Other languages of the Indian subcontinent - A. Muthusivan, Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum, literary criticism written in Tamil[12]
- Akhtarul Imam, Sabrang, poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; Urdu[12]
- Amrita Pritam, Lamian Vatan, mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, Punjabi[12]
- Bishnu Dey:
- Dinu Bhai Pant, Vira Gulaba, modern ballad on the heroism and skillfulness of Gulab Singh (later Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir), in the battle of Jammu against Sikh invaders; Dogri[12]
- Jhamandas Bhatia, Sain Qutub Sah, biography written in Sindhi of the Sufi poet Qudub Shah, who wrote in that language[12]
- Joseph Mundasseri, Rupabhadrata, literary criticism which found fault with the Marxist school of literary criticism; the debate caused by the book resulted in a split in the progressive literary movement; Malayalam[12]
- Jyotsna Shukla, Azadinan Geeto, Indian poet writing in Gujarati[13]
- K. S. Narasimha Swamy, Dipadamalli, Kannada[12]
- Kaifi Azmi, pen name of Asar Husain Rizvi, Akhir-i Shab, Urdu[12]
- Kashikanta Mishra, Kobar-git, marriage songs , Maithili[12]
- Manohar Sharma, Aravali Ki Atma, includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", Rajasthani[12]
- Shankara Balakrishna Joshi, also known as "Sam. Ba. Joshi", Karnana Muru Citragulu, literary criticism written in the Kannada language, studying the character of Karna as portrayed in three epics, Mahabharata, Pampa Bharata, and Kumaravyasa Bharata[12]
- Vailoppalli Sridhara Menon, Kannikkoyttu, Malayalam[12]
[edit] Other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 2 –
- January 18 – Takeshi Kitano 北野 武, Japanese filmmaker, film editor, screenwriter, comedian, actor, author, poet and painter (surname: Kitano)
- April 13 – Rae Armantrout, American poet
- May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali
- May 23 – Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator (died 1995)
- July 25 – Leslie Scalapino, American poet
- August 8 – Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activist
- October 20 – Mikirō Sasaki 佐々木幹郎, also known as "Mikio Sasaki", Japanese poet and travel writer (surname: Sasaki)
- November 13 – John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
- December 26 – Liz Lochhead Scottish poet and dramatist
- Also:
- Michael Casey, American
- Cheryl Clarke, American poet and academic
- Reginald Gibbons, American
- Yusef Komunyakaa, American poet, academic and recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Al Moritz
- Molly Peacock, American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
- Bin Ramke, American
- Michael Schmidt, English poet, academic, founder, editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and founder of PN Review
- Robert B. Shaw, American
- Penelope Shuttle, British poet
- Charlie Smith
- Rosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist
- Robert Wells (poet), British poet
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Web page titled "One Zero Zero A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044" at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ a b c Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ Web page titled "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 9, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b Web page titled "Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 25, 2009
- ^ a b c d e Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ a b c d e f Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Cady, Andrea, Measuring the visible: the verse and prose of Philippe Jaccottet, p 32, Editions Rodopi, 1992, retrieved via Google Books on August 20, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ "Arabic" section of "Literature" article in Britannica Book of the Year 2007, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, online version retrieved January 14, 2009
- ^ Shrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 076560521X, ISBN 9780765605214, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
|
