Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry
- Black Mountain College, the birthplace of the Black Mountain School of poetry, goes defunct, although it doesn't officially close until the spring of 1957, and the final issue of the Black Mountain Review is published in the fall of 1957.
- Quadrant magazine was founded in Australia by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been active in social-democrat politics in Europe, and James McAuley, a Catholic poet.
- September 6 — The New York Times sent poet Richard Eberhart to San Francisco to report on the poetry scene there. Eberhart's resulting article, published this day in the New York Times Book Review, was titled "West Coast Rhythms" and helped call national attention to Howl as "the most remarkable poem of the young group" of poets who were becoming known as the spokesmen of the Beat generation[1]
- Northern Review, founded in 1945 from the merger of two small Canadian literary magazines, Preview and First Statement, publishes its last issue.[2]
- Tamarack Review founded by Robert Weaver in Canada[3]
[edit] Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Kingsley Amis, A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956[7]
- David Gascoyne, Night Thoughts[8]
- John Holloway, The Minute and Longer Poems, Hessle, East Yorkshire: Marvell Press[9]
- Christopher Logue, Devil, Maggot and Son[8]
- Norman MacCaig, Riding Lights, London: Hogarth Press[9]
- Edwin Muir, One Foot in Eden[8]
- E. J. Scovell, The River Steamer, and Other Poems[8]
- John Ashbery, Some Trees[10]
- John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy[9]
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Bronzeville Boys and Girls
- Witter Bynner, A Book of Lyrics[10]
- Robert Creeley, If You[11]
- Kenneth Fearing, New and Selected Poems[10]
- Robert Fitzgerald, In the Rose of Time: Poems 1931–1956[10]
- Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems,[10] a signal work of the Beat Generation; published by City Lights Books
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Unicorn, and Other Poems[10]
- W. S. Merwin, Green With Beasts, Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis[7]
- Kenneth Rexroth (translator), 30 Spanish Poems of Love and Exile and (translator), 100 Poems from the Chinese
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems[10]
- Marianne Moore, Like a Bulwark[10]
- Gertrude Stein, Stanzas in meditation and Other Poems (1929–1933)[10]
- Peter Viereck, The Persimmon Tree[10]
- John Hall Wheelock, Poems Old and New[10]
- Reed Whittemore, An American Takes a Walk[10]
- Richard Wilbur, Things of This World: Poems, New York: Harcourt, Brace[9]
- Tennessee Williams, In the Winter of Cities[10]
[edit] Works published in other languages Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - W. Höllerer, editor, Transit, anthology, German[13]
- Rupert Hirschenauer and Albrecht Weber, editors, Wege zum Gedicht, 2 volumes (second volume, on the ballad, in 1963), Germany [14], scholarship
- Walther Killy, Wandlungen des lyrischen Bildes[14]
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Bhatt Damodar Kesavaji, pen name "Sudhansu", Alakhtano, Gujarati[15]
- Dhirubhai Thaker, Arvacin Gujarati Shaityani Vikasrekha, a Gujarati-language history of that language's literature from 1850 to the post-independence period[15]
- Natvarlal Kuberdas Pandya, Nepathye, longer poems based on new interpretations of mythological characters; Gujarati[15]
- Suresh Joshi, Upjati, Indian, Gujarati language[16]
- C. Mahadevappa, translation from the English of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Defence of Poetry[15]
- Channaveera Kanavi, Dipadhari, with some lyrics in the navodaya style, others in the navya; poetry known as Samanvaya Kavya in Kannada poetry because it attempted to synthesize the two types of subject matter: both the beauty of nature, folk traditions, mysticism, and humanism of the one form and the stark contemporary realism of the other[15]
- Yarmunja Ramachandra, Vidaya, the author's only book of poems, published posthumously after his death at age 22[15]
[edit] Other Indian languages [edit] Other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - Also:
- Bai Hua (poet), Chinese[19]
- Henri Cole, American poet
- Jim Daniels, American poet, writer and academic
- Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, and theorist
- Forrest Gander, American poet, essayist and translator
- Amy Gerstler, American poet
- Mick Imlah (died 2009), British poet[20]
- Amir Or, Israeli poet
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 31 – A. A. Milne, 74, English author of children's books and children's poetry
- March 23 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (born 1885), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet, a woman
- March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, 80, popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics
- April 2 – Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (born 1883), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
- May 11 – Takashi Matsumoto (haiku poet) 松本たかし (born 1906), Japanese, Showa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group that also included Kawabata Bosha; founded a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
- June 22 – Walter de la Mare, 83 (died 1873), English poet, short story writer and author of children's books
- July 7 – Gottfried Benn (born 1886), German expressionist poet; buried in Dahlem Waldfriedhof, Berlin
- July 8 – Giovanni Papini, 75, Italian poet, essayist, journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
- July 11 – Dorothy Wellesley, 70, English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
- August 31 – Percy MacKaye, 81 (born 1875), American playwright and poet
- November 21 – Aizu Yaichi (会津 八一) (born 1881), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (Surname: Aizu)
[edit] See also - ^ Allen Ginsberg, Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Editions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography, edited by Barry Miles [HarperPerennial, 1995], p. 155
- ^ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ a b c d Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ "Denis Glover" article in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ a b Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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)
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t 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
- ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
- ^ Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, The Noroton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry, third edition, 2003, p 1030, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Bai Hua, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ "Poet Mick Imlah dies, aged 52", January 12, 2009, The Guardian of London, retrieved same day
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