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Nationality words link to articles with information on the
nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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:
Anthologies
- A. J. M.
Smith, the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, including
untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with
English-language poems[1]
- Edmund Snow Carpenter, an
anthropologist, editor of this volume, Anerca, anonymous
Eskimo poems, with drawings by
Enooesweetok[1]
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
- W. H. Auden,
Homage to Clio[1]
- Sir John
Betjeman, Summoned by Bells[4]
- Edwin Bronk, A Family Affair, Northwood, Middlesex:
Scorpion Press[5]
- Austin
Clarke, The Hore-Eaters (see also Ancient
Lights 1955
in poetry, Too Great a Vine 1957)[4]
- Patric
Dickinson, The World I See[4]
- Lawrence
Durrell, Collected Poems[1]
- D. J.
Enright, Some Men Are Brothers[1]
- Ted Hughes,
Lupercal, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper[1][5]
- John Knight,
Straight Lines and Unicorns[1]
- Peter Levi,
The Gravel Ponds[1]
- Patrick
Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling[1]
- Norman
MacCaig, A Common Grace[1]
- Dom Moraes,
Poems, Indian at this time living in
the United Kingdom
- Edwin Muir,
Collected Poems (posthumous)[1]
- Sylvia Plath,
The Coolossus, and Other Poems[4]
- William
Plomer, Collected Poems[1]
- Peter
Redgrove, The Collector, and Other Poems,[4]
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul[1][5]
- James Reeves,
Collected Poems 1929–59[4]
- Charles
Tomlinson, Seeing is Believing[1]
- Andrew Young, Collected
Poems[1]
- John Ashbery,
The Poems[6]
- W. H. Auden,
Homage to Clio[6]
- Paul
Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for
Flatbush
- Gwendolyn
Brooks, The Bean Eaters[6]
- Witter
Bynner, New Poems[6]
- Gregory
Corso, The Happy Birthday of Death[6]
- Louis Coxe, The Middle Passage[6]
- E. E.
Cummings, Collected Poems
- James Dickey,
Into the Stone[6]
- Robert
Duncan:
- The Opening of the Field[6]
- Selected Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books[1][5]
- Richard
Eberhart, Collected Poems 1930–1960[6]
- Paul Engle,
Poems in Praise, including the sonnet sequence "For the
Iowa Dead"
- Jean
Garrigue, A Water Walk by Villa d'Este[1]
- Ramon Guthrie, Graffiti[1]
- Anthony
Hecht, A Bestiary[6]
- Daryl Hine,
The Devil's Picture Book[6]
- Daniel G. Hoffman, A Little Geste and
Other Poems[6]
- Randall
Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, New York:
Atheneum[5]
- LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume
Suicide Note, New York: Totem/Corinth Books[5]
- Donald
Justice, The Summer Anniversaries[6]
- Weldon Kees,
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees posthumous, edited by
Donald
Justice
- Jack Kerouac,
Mexico City Blues[1]
- Galway
Kinnell, What a Kingdom It Was, Boston: Houghton
Mifflin[5]
- Denise
Levertov, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads[1]
- Robert
Lowell, Life Studies, New York: Farrar, Straus &
Cudahy[5]
- Phyllis
McGinley, Times Three: Selected Verse from Three
Decades[6]
- James
Merrill, Water Street, Atheneum Publishers[7]
- W. S. Merwin,
The Drunk in the Furnace[6]
- Joesphine Miles, Poems 1930–1960[6]
- Howard Moss,
A Winter Come, a Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960, New York:
Scribner's[5]
- Howard
Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, University of Chicago
Press[5]
- John
Frederick Nims, Knowledge of the Evening[6]
- Charles
Olson:
- The Distances, New York: Grove Press[5]
- The Maximus Poems, New York: Jargon/Corinth Books[5]
- Kenneth
Patchen, Because It Is[6]
- Ezra Pound,
Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, multi-lingual cantos[1]
- Carl
Sandburg, Wind Song[6]
- Anne Sexton,
To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Boston: Houghton Mifflin[5]
- Wilfred Townley Scott, Scrimshaw[1]
- W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's
Needle[1]
- Gary Snyder,
Myths and Texts[6]
- William
Stafford, West of Your City[6]
- Theodore
Weiss, Outlanders, New York: Macmillan[5]
- Reed
Whittemore, The Self-Made Man and Other Poems[1]
- Yvor Winters,
Collected Poems, Chicago: The Swallow Press[7]
Criticism, scholarship
and biography
The New American Poetry
1945-1960
The
New American Poetry 1945-1960, a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and
published in 1960, aimed to pick out the "third generation" of
American modernist poets. In the longer term it
attained a classic status, with critical approval and continuing
sales. It was reprinted in 1999.
Poets represented:
Helen Adam – John Ashbery – Paul Blackburn – Robin Blaser – Ebbe Borregaard – Bruce
Boyd – Ray Bremser –
Brother Antoninus – James Broughton
– Paul Carroll –
Gregory Corso –
Robert Creeley
– Edward Dorn – Kirby Doyle – Robert
Duerden – Robert Duncan – Larry Eigner – Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Edward
Field – Allen
Ginsberg – Madeline Gleason – Barbara Guest – LeRoi
Jones – Jack
Kerouac – Kenneth
Koch – Philip Lamantia – Denise Levertov
– Ron
Loewinsohn – Edward Marshall – Michael McClure
– David Meltzer
– Frank O'Hara –
Charles Olson –
Joel
Oppenheimer – Peter Orlovsky – Stuart Perkoff – James Schuyler –
Gary Snyder – Gilbert
Sorrentino – Jack
Spicer – Lew Welch –
Philip Whalen –
John Wieners – Jonathan Williams
Other in
English
Works
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:
French
language
Criticism,
scholarship and biography
- Louis Aragon,
Les Poetes[10]
- Aimé
Césaire,Ferrements, Martinique author published in
France[11]
- Georges Emmanuel Clancier, Evidences[1]
- Michel Deguy, Fragments du cadastre[11]
- Mohammed Dib,
Ombre gardienne, with a preface by Louis Aragon[10]
- Jean Follain,
Des Heures[11]
- Paul Géraldy, Vous et moi[1]
- Pierre
Jean Jouve, Proses[1]
- Pierre Oster, Un nom toujours nouveau[10]
- Saint-John
Perse, Chronique[11]
- Jacques
Prévert, Histoires[11]
Spanish
language
- Manuel Blanco-González, La luna et lluvia[1]
- Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela[1]
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El
jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the Rubén Darío
Prize[1]
- Manuel Durán, La paloma azul[1]
- Germán Pardo García, Centauro al sol[1]
- León de
Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by
Jorge Zalamea
(Colombia)[1]
- Carlos García-Prada, editor, Escala del sueño,
anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets[1]
- Elías Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico)[1]
Criticism,
scholarship and biography
- Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of
the Peruvian poet's verse[1]
- Antonio Oliver Belmás, Este otro Rubén
Darío[1]
- Gastón Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela
Mistral[1]
- Manuel Pedro González, editor, Antología crítica de José
Marti, including writing by Darío, Gabriela
Mistral, Unamuno, and Onís[1]
- Glen L. Kolb, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, "A Study of
the Life, Times and Poetry of a Spanish Colonial Satirist"[1]
- Eduardo Neale-Silva, Horizonte humano, the first
detailed biographical study of the Colombian poet José
Eustasio Rivera[1]
- Federico de Onís, Luis Palês Matos—vida y
obra-bibliografía, antología, poesías, inéditas, a study of
the Puerto Rican poet's life and artistic development[1]
Other
- Odysseus Elytis, Έξη και μια τύψεις για
τον ουρανό ("Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky"), Greece
- H. M. Enzensberger, editor, Museum der modernen
Poesie, anthology of international modernist poetry, German[12]
- Haim Gouri,
Shoshanat Ruhot ("Compass Rose"), Israeli
writing in Hebrew
- Jess Ørnsbo, Digte ("Poems")[13]
- Klaus
Rifbjerg, Konfrontation, Denmark[13]
Awards and
honors
Prizes
from other nations
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry"
article:
- January 14 – Ralph
Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
- February 28 – F. S.
Flint (born 1885), English poet, translator and prominent
member of the Imagist group
- March 23 – Franklin Pierce Adams, 78 (born
1881),
American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical
publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of
poetry
- May 30 – Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of
lung cancer
- June 17 – Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French
- August 8 – Harry
Kemp, 76
- November 9 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (born 1886), Japanese, Taishō and Showa
period tanka poet and playwright
See also
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Britannica Book of the Year 1961, covering events of 1960,
published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961; articles: American
Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French
Literature, German Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American
Literature, Spanish Literature, Soviet Literature, Obituaries
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Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse,
revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
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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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Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English
Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN
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Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual
Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
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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)
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Richard
Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology
of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN
0393093573
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn
(1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8,
2008
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Allen Curnow Web page at
the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
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Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature,
translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1983
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Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and
British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN
0394521978
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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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F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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