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[edit] Events
- Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
- Landfall literary magazine is founded in New Zealand (now that country's oldest literary journal)
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Canada
- 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:
[edit] Indian subcontinent in English
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
- Serapia Devi, Rapid Visions[3]
- Raul De Loyola Furtado, Selected Poems, second edition, revised; Bombay (first edition 1942; third edition, revised 1967)[3]
- Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, The Song of Life and Other Poems, Bombay: Hind Kitabs[3]
[edit] United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety", English native living in the United States
- Kingsley Amis, Bright November
- Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
- Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
- Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication
[edit] United States
- W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety", English native living in the United States
- Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
- Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
- Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians (his second book of poetry)
- Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law
- 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[4]
- 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
- Victor Daley, Creeve Roe, posthumously published, Australia
- Shaw Neilson, Unpublished Poems, edited by James Devaney, Angus and Robertson, Australia
[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:
[edit] Indian subcontinent
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
[edit] Hindi
- Kedarnath Agarwal:
- Nind Ke Badal, written in the language of common people by a notable poet of the Pragativadi movement[5]
- Yug Ki Ganga, poems in the Pragativadi tradition[5]
- 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[5]
- Ram Dahin Mishra, Kavya Darpan, comparing Indian and Western poetics; literary criticism[5]
- Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Samadheni[5]
- Sumitranandan Pant:
- Svarn dhuli, a translation of Swami Vivekanand's Song of the Sanyasin into Hindi is included under the title Sanyasi Ke Git[5]
- Svarna Kiran[5]
[edit] Marathi
- B. B. Borkar, Dudhasagar[5]
- B. S. Mardhekar, Kahi Kavita[5]
- Shanta Shelke, Varsa[5]
[edit] Oriya
- Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, romantic poems by one of the earliest modern poets in Indian literature[5]
- Mayadhar Mansinha:
- Nityananda Mhapatra, Pancajanya[5]
[edit] Other languages of the Indian subcontinent
- A. Muthusivan, Kavitaiyum Valkkaiyum, literary criticism written in Tamil[5]
- Akhtarul Imam, Sabrang, poems, some allegorical, some satiric, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society; Urdu[5]
- Amrita Pritam, Lamian Vatan, mostly lyrical poems on romantic love, Punjabi[5]
- 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[5]
- Jhamandas Bhatia, Sain Qutub Sah, biography written in Sindhi of the Sufi poet Qudub Shah, who wrote in that language[5]
- 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[5]
- Jyotsna Shukla, Azadinan Geeto, Indian poet writing in Gujarati[6]
- K. S. Narasimha Swamy, Dipadamalli, Kannada[5]
- Kaifi Azmi, pen name of Asar Husain Rizvi, Akhir-i Shab, Urdu[5]
- Kashikanta Mishra, Kobar-git, marriage songs , Maithili[5]
- Manohar Sharma, Aravali Ki Atma, includes nature poems such as "Aravali", "Jharano" and "Tiba", Rajasthani[5]
- 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[5]
- Vailoppalli Sridhara Menon, Kannikkoyttu, Malayalam[5]
[edit] Other languages
- Nazik Al-Malaika, Cholera, Arabic-language book published in Iraq[7]
- Alexander Mezhirov, Дорога далеко ("The Road is Long"), edited by Pavel Antokolksy, the author's first published book, Moscow[8]
- Giorgos Seferis, Κίχλη ("The Thrush"), Greek
[edit] Awards and honors
- Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Lowell appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely Torrence
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changed her name
- 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:
- July 13 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (born 1875), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
- December 19 – Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian poet and writer
- Also:
- Anna Wickham, British poet
- Richard Le Gallienne, English writer and poet
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ 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
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