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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

  • Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time to the novelist John Clellon Holmes
  • September — The body of William Butler Yeats who died in Menton, France in 1939, is moved from its original burial place Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to Drumcliffe, County Sligo, in accordance with his last wish. The Irish Naval Service corvette L.E. Macha carried the remains. Yeats' grave is a famous attraction in Sligo.
  • Di Goldene Keyt, an Israeli literary quarterly, founded
  • The Bollingen Prize is established by Paul Mellon, and was funded by a $10,000 grant from the Bollingen Foundation to the Library of Congress.
  • In the summer, composer Richard Strauss set three short poems by Hermann Hesse to music to become all but one of his valedictory Four Last Songs, his final works before his death in 1949.

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:

Canada[]

  • Earle Birney, The Strait of Anian. Toronto: Ryerson Press.[1]
  • Roy Daniels, Deeper into the Forest[2]
  • Robert Finch, The Strength of the Hills[2]
  • A.M. Klein, The Rocking Chair and Other Poems. Governor General's Award 1948.[2]
  • Irving Layton, Now Is The Place: Stories and Poems. Montreal: First Statement Press.[3]
  • Douglas Le Pan, The Wounded Prince[2]
  • L.A. MacKay, The Ill-Tempered Lover[2]
  • A.J.M. Smith, editor, The Book of Canadian Poetry, anthology (see also editions of 1943, 1957)[2]
  • Arthur Stringer, New York Nocturnes. Toronto: Ryerson.

India, in English[]

  • V. N. Bhusan, The Far Ascent, Bombay: Padma Pub.[4]
  • Bimal Chandra Bose, Ghandi-Gita ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.[5]
  • Gurdial Mallik, Hound of the Heart ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Naranda Publications[5]
  • Dilip Kumar Roy, Eyes of Light ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda Publications[6]
  • Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, He Walked Alone ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Bharat Publishing House[7]

New Zealand poetry[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

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:

France[]

India[]

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Bengali[]

  • Jibanananda Das, Satti Tarar Timur[18]
  • Mangalacharan Chattopadhyay, Telengana-O-Anyanya Kabita[18]
  • Premendra Mitra, Pherari Phauj[18]
  • Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Agnikon[18]

Kannada[]

  • Gangadhara Chittala, Kalada Kare, lyrics on the theme of "time"[18]
  • M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Kattuvevu, his first collection of lyrics[18]
  • S. G. Kulakarni, editor, Kannada kavya Bhandara, anthology of navodaya poets, including B. M. Shreekantayya, K. V. Puttappa, D. R. Bendre and D. V. Gundappa

Other languages on the Indian subcontinent[]

  • Amrita Pritan, Lamian Vatan, Punjabi language[18]
  • Ananta Patnaik, Tarpana Kare Aji, poems on Gandhi, Oriya[18]
  • AsiTemplate:Disambiguation needed, pen name of Abdul BariTemplate:Disambiguation needed, Rubaiyati Asi, Urdu[18]
  • Buddhidhari Singha, Amar Bapu, Maithili[18]
  • Harivans Rai Bacchan, Sut Ki Mala, 111 eleven poems on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi[18]
  • Khumanthem Ibohal Singh, Nacome Lei ("Bouquet"), Manipuri
  • Maheswar Neog, Sri Sri Sankaradeva, Assamese[18]
  • Mahjoor, Vava Subahuki, a political poem on the indignation of Kashmiris at delays in the United Nations Security Council concerning pleas to counter Pakistan's actions regarding that area; Kashmiri[18]
  • N. V. Krishna Varier, Ninta Kavitakal, long poems in Malayalam[18]
  • Nayaya vijaya Muni, Visva Vibhuti Svargaroha, a poem on Gandhi's death, Sanskrit[18]
  • Sumitranandan Pant, Visva Vibhuti Svargaroha, Hindi-language poems written in homage to Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo[18]
  • Upendranath Jha, Sannyasi, a Kanda Kavya in blank verse, Maithili[18]

Other languages[]

  • García Baena, Mientras cantan los pájaros ("While Birds Sing"); Spain[19]
  • Aimé Césaire,Soleil cou coupé, Martinique author published in France
  • Olga Kirsch, Mure van die Hart, Afrikaans, South Africa
  • Paul la Cour, Fragmenter af en Dagbog ("Fragments of a Diary"), Denmark[20]
  • Alexander Mezhirov, Kommunisty, vpered!, "Communists, Ahead!" poem reprinted in his second collection, New Encounters, and in many volumes, anthologies and samplers; Russia, Soviet Union[21]
  • Eugenio Montale, La fiera letteraria poetry criticism; Italy
  • Nizar Qabbani, Childhood of a Breast, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
  • Ole Wivel, I Fiskens Tegn ("In the Sign of the Fish"), Denmark[22]

Awards and honors[]

Births[]

Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Also

Deaths[]

File:Zhdanov.GIF

Andrei Zhdanov, persecutor of poets

Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • January 2 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
  • February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi (born 1878), Bengali poet
  • May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican writer, humanist, Communist, and part of the Harlem Renaissance
  • March 14 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (born 1888), Taishō and Showa period Japanese poet (surname: Senge)
  • August 31 – Andrei Zhdanov, 52, Soviet government official and persecutor of poets, writers and artists; until the late 1950s, Zhdanovism, defined cultural production in the Soviet Union; reducing permissible culture to a straightforward, scientific chart, where a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value; Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that "incorrect art" was an ideological diversion[24]
  • December 13 – Michael Roberts, 46, British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, and teacher
Also

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. "Earle Birney: Published Works," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  3. "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
  4. 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
  5. 5.0 5.1 Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
  6. Amrita Paresh Patel, "24. Selected Poems of Dilip Kumar Roy: A Study", p 267, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 8176251119, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010; and Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [ The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
  7. Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
  8. Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  10. 10.0 10.1 "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
  11. 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 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)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
  13. Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 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
  15. Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, p 810, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853
  16. Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  18. 18.00 18.01 18.02 18.03 18.04 18.05 18.06 18.07 18.08 18.09 18.10 18.11 18.12 18.13 18.14 18.15 18.16 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
  19. Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
  20. "Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  21. 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
  22. "Danish Poetry" article, p 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  23. [http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards]", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf
  24. Stites, Richard. Soviet Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press: 1992. 117.
  25. Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009


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