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nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- W. H. Auden
becomes a U.S. citizen
- Ezra Pound brought
back to the United States on treason charges, but found unfit to
face trial because of insanity and sent to St.
Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remained for
12 years (to 1958).
- Upon learning about Isaiah Berlin's visit to Russian poet Anna Akhmatova this year, Stalin's
associate Andrei
Zhdanov, with the approval of the Soviet Central Committee,
issued the "Zhdanov decree" denouncing her as a "half
harlot, half nun", and had her poems banned from publication. The
1946 resolution of the Central Committee was directed against two
literary magazines, Zvezda and Leningrad, which
had published supposedly apolitical, "bourgeois", individualistic
works of Akhmatova and the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko. In time
Akhmatova's son would spend his youth in Stalinist gulags, and she would resort to publishing
several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release.
- Takashi Matsumoto founds
a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in Japan
Macspaunday
Roy
Campbell, in his Talking Bronco, first published this
year, made up the name "MacSpaunday" to designate a composite
figure made up of these four poets:
Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period,
imagined that the four were a group of like-minded poets, although
they shared little but left-wing views in the broadest sense of the
word.
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:
- Nolini
Kanta Gupta, East Beams[3]
- Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An
Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London:
New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the
United Kingdom[4]
- H.G. Rawlinson, editor, Garland of Indian Poetry,
London: Royal India Society; anthology; Indian poetry published in
the United
Kingdom[4]
- Rupert
Brooke, The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke,
comprising the contents of Collected Poems of 1928 and 26
additional poems; published posthumously[7]
- Roy
Campbell, Talking Bronco, South
African native living in and published in the United
Kingdom
- Walter De la Mare, The
Traveller[7]
- Lawrence
Durrell Cities, Plains and People[7]
- Robert
Graves, Poems 1938–1945[7]
- Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An
Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London:
New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the
United Kingdom[4]
- Maurice
Lindsay, editor, Modern Scottish Poetry: An
Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945 (Faber and
Faber)
- Norman
MacCaig, The Inward Eye[7]
- Hugh
MacDiarmid, pen name
of Christopher Murray Grieve, Poems of the East-West
Synthesis[7]
- Kathleen
Raine, Living in Time[7]
- Herbert Read,
Collected Poems[7]
- Henry
Reed, A Map of Verona,[7]
including "Naming of Parts"
- Vita
Sackville-West, The Garden[7]
- Sydney Goodsir Smith, The
Devil's Waltz[7]
- Dylan Thomas,
Deaths and Entrances,[7]
including "Fern Hill" and "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire,
of a Child in London"
- R. S. Thomas,
The Stones of the Fields[7]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, The Last
Circle[8]
(Houghton Mifflin)
- Cleanth
Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of
Poetry, criticism
- Owen Dodson,
Powerful Long Ladder[8]
- H.D., "The Flowering of the
Rod",[8]
the final part of Trilogy, a three-part poem on the
experience of the blitz in wartime London
- John
Gould Fletcher, The Burning Mountain[8]
- Denise
Levertov, The Double Image[8]
- Robert
Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle, New York: Harcourt,
Brace[9]
- Phyllis
McGinley, Stones from a Glass House[8]
- James
Merrill, The Black Swan (won Glascock Prize)
- Josephine
Miles, Local Measures[8]
- Howard Moss,
The Wound and the Weather[8]
- Lorine
Niedecker, New Goose, her first poetry collection
- Kenneth
Patchen, Sleepers Awake[8]
- Edouard
Roditi, translator, Young Cherry Trees Secured Against
Hares, translated from the original French of Andre Breton;
publisher: View[10]
- Mark Van
Doren, The Country New Year[8]
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson,
Book I[8]
- Reed
Whittemore, Heroes & Heroines
Other in
English
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:
- Yves
Bonnefoy, Traité du pianiste
- Jean Cayrol,
Poems de la nuit et du brouillard[11]
- Aimé
Césaire, Les armes miraculeuses, Martinique poet
published in France[10]
- René Char,
Feuillets d'Hypnos[10]
- Paul
Éluard, Le dur désir de durer[10]
- Léon-Paul Fargue,
Méandres[10]
- Jean Hervé, Jour, winner of the Prix Apollinaire[11]
- Francis
Jammes, La Grâce[12]
- Pierre
Jean Jouve, La Vierge de Paris poems from The
Resistance[11]
- Alphonse Métérié, Vétiver[11]
- Jacques
Prévert, Paroles[10]
- Saint-John
Perse:
- Exil, suivi de Poème à l'etrangère, Pluies, Neiges[10]
- Vents, Paris: Gallimard[13]
- Philippe
Soupault, L'Arme secrète[10]
- Jules
Supervielle, 1939–1945[10]
- Tristan
Tzara, pen name of
Sami Rosenstock, Terre sur Terre[10]
Indian
subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by
first name, regardless of surname:
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Nas aur Nirman, poems of the
Pragativadi school[14]
- Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Kuruksetra, narrative poem
based on the Santi Parva of the Mahabharata[14]
- Rangeya Raghava, Pighlate Patthar, poems with a strong
Marxist influence[14]
- Mirza Arif, Laila Wa Mustafa, a masnavi[14]
- Shamas-ud Din Kafoor, Nendre Lotuyae Yoot Koetah, a
vatsun poem on the
poverty of Kashmiri peasants; the work first appeared in
Hamdard, a weekly periodical, and was later included in
Payame Kafoor[14]
- Abdul Ahad
Azad, Shikwa-e-Iblis, a complaint about unquestioning
social conformity[14]
Other
Indian languages
- Bayabhav, also known as Kashinath Shridhar Naik, Sadeavelim
Fulam, Konkani[14]
- Buddhadeb Basu, Kaler Putul, an
essay of literary criticism in Bengali of poets and their work after Rabindranath Tagore[14]
- Chaganti Seshaiah, Andhra Kavi Tarangini, first volume
in a 10-volume literary history written in the Telugu language
(the last volume came out in 1953)[14]
- Chandrasinha, Sip, nine works of poetic prose in Rajasthani[14]
- Dinu Bhai Pant, Mangu Di Chabila, Dogri narrative poem on bonded laborers
exploited by village money lenders[14]
- E. M. S. Nampudirippadu, Purogamana Sahityam an essay
in Malayalam by a leader of the Marxist
Communist Party on the idea of progressive literature; influential
with many young authors[14]
- Ishar Singh Ishar, Rangila Bhaia, humorous,
Punjabi-language poems featuring Bhaia, a humorous character
created by the poet for this and other works[14]
- Jandhyala Papayya Sastri, Vijaya Sri, popular kavya in
classical meter about the victory of Arjuna; an allegory of the Indian independence
movement; Telugu[14]
- Laksmiprasad Devkota, Sulocana, Nepali-language epic using more than a
dozen Sanskrit meters; the poem, written in
response to a challenge to prove the author's credentials as an
epic poet, does not defy the norms of epics in Sanskrit poetics;
based on a social theme[14]
- Mayadhar Mansinha, Sadhabajhia, Oriya-language, romantic poetry[14]
- P. S. Subrahmaniya Shastri, Vatamoli Nul Varalaru,
literary history of Sanskrit
literature, written in Tamil[14]
- R. P. Sethu Pillai, Kiristuvat Tamilttontar, Tamil-language literary history on the
contributions of Christian scholars, including Beschi, Pope,
Caldwell and Vitanayakam Pillai to that language's literature and
culture[14]
- Sundaram, Arvacin Kavita, literary
history in Gujarati of that language's poetry from
1845 to 1945[14]
- V. R. M. Chettiyar, Nanku Kavimanikal, Tamil biographical and critical study of Percy
Bysshe Shelley, John
Keats, Rabindranath Tagore and the Tamil
poet Kambar
(poet),[14]
also known as "Kampan" (1180–1250)
Other
languages
- Odysseus Elytis, An Heroic And Funeral
Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania, Greek
- G. Groll, editor, De profundis, anthology of non-Nazi
texts, Germany[15]
Awards and
honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry"
article:
- February 8 – Gert
Jonke (died 2009), Austrian novelist,
playwright, screenwriter and poet
- August 5 – Ron
Silliman, American
- October 28 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian
- December 20 – Andrei Codrescu, a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist,
screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio
- December 30 – Patti
Smith, American poet and musician
- Also:
- Alan Brunton (died 2002), New Zealand
poet and scriptwriter[16]
- Amulya Barua
(born 1922),
Assamese poet first published posthumously
in 1964,
killed in communal violence
- Larry Levis
(died 1996),
American
- Tom Pickard, English poet,
radio broadcaster, film maker and an initiator of the British Poetry Revival
movement
- Peter
Reading, English poet
- Joachim Sartorius, German[17]
- Maura
Stanton, American
- Marilyn Nelson Waniek, American
- Dale Zieroth, Canada
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry"
article:
- January 9 – Countee Cullen, 42 (born 1903), African American
poet
- March 1 – Adriana Porter, 89, Wiccan poet
- May 25 – Ernest
Rhys, 87, British poet, author, novelist, essayist
best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's
Library series of affordable classics
- July 8 – Orrick Glenday Johns, 59, American poet
and playwright
- July 27 – Gertrude Stein, 73 (born 1874, poet and
dramatist, of cancer
See also
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Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse,
revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
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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
- ^ 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
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b
c
Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies",
"Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of
Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16,
2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^
Allen Curnow Web page at
the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ 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, "History and Criticism"
section, p 837
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Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English
Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN
0-19-860634-6
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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)
- ^ 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
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b
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e
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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
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b
c
d
Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature,
translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1983
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 -
1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30,
2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel
Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize
Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.
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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
- ^ 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
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Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New
Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by
Peter Simpson
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Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An
Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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