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1951 poetry literature
Events
Poet Cid Corman begins Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically features one writer per issue and runs, with breaks, until the mid-1980s. Poets featured include Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Denise Levertov, William Bronk, Theodore Enslin, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Gary Snyder, Lorine Niedecker, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Paul Blackburn. The magazine also leads to the establishment of Origin Press, which publishes books by a similar range of poets.
Bad Lord Byron, a film directed by David MacDonald about the Romantic poet.Web page titled "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, future (1980) winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, becomes an exile this year.
The Dolmen Press is founded in Dublin, Ireland by Liam and Josephine Miller to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poets and artists. The Press operates in Dublin from 1951 until Liam Miller's death in 1987. https://web.archive.org/web/20071123073002/http://collections.zsr.wfu.edu:20018/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?page=object&OUTPUTXSL=dolmen.xsl 2007-11-23 Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
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
Irving Layton, The Black Huntsmen: Poems. Montreal."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
Tom MacInnes, In the Old of my AgeGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Duncan Campbell Scott, Selected Poems, edited by E. K. Brown
A. J. M. Smith, The Worldly Muse
Kay Smith, Footnote to the Lord's Prayer and Other Poems
Raymond Souster, City Hall Street. Toronto: Ryerson."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
Anne Wilkinson, Counterpoint to Sleep
New Zealand
James K. Baxter, Recent Trends in New Zealand Poetry, scholarshipPreminger, 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
Allen Curnow, editor, A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-50, anthologyAllen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
Denis Glover, Sings Harry, New Zealand"Denis Glover" article in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
M. H. Holcroft, Discovered Isles, scholarship
Louis Johnson:
Editor, New Zealand Poetry Yearbook, first annual edition, anthologyPreminger, 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
The Sun Among the RuinsWeb page titled "The Contemporary Scene" in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
Roughshod Among the Lilies
Charles Spear, Twopence Coloured
Hubert Witheford, The Falcon Mark
United Kingdom
W. H. Auden, Nones, including the poem "In Praise of Limestone"
E. C. Bentley, Clerihews CompleteCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Basil Bunting, Seeds, a long poem, published by Poetry magazine
Roy Campbell, Light on a Dark Horse, autobiography
Charles Causley:
Farewell Aggie Weston
Hands to Dance
Jack Clemo, The Clay Verge
Keith Douglas, Collected Poems
Robert Graves, Poems and Satires
James Kirkup, The Submerged Village, and Other Poems
John Lehmann, The Age of the Dragon
Iona and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
Poems of Today, British poetry anthology, fourth series
Enoch Powell, The Wedding Gift & Dancer’s End (London: Falcon Press,) .http://www.enochpowell.net/works-by-enoch-powell.html2010/07/ Works by Enoch Powell enochpowell.net 2 November 2010 February 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes
Anne Ridler, The Golden Bird, and Other Poems
Alan Ross, Poetry, 1945–1950
John Wain, Mixed Feelings
United States
W. H. Auden, Nones,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) English-born poet living and published in the United States
John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sorrows of Cold Stone
John Ciardi, From Time to Time, including "My Father's Watch"Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 14, 2009
Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred, including "Harlem"Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3
Randall Jarrell:
Losses, New York: Harcourt, BraceM. 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
The Seven-League Crutches, New York: Harcourt, Brace
Hugh Kenner, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, highly influential in causing a re-assessment of Pound's poetry (New Directions), criticism
Robert Lowell, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, New York: Harcourt, Brace
James Merrill, First Poems
Marianne Moore, Collected Poems, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry in 1952
Ogden Nash, Parents Keep Out
Adrienne Rich, A Change of World, her first volume, selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets
Theodore Roethke, Praise to the End!, 13 long poems about a child's sensibility and developing consciousness
Louis Simpson, Good News of Death and Other Poems, Jamaican-born poet living in the United States
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau
Jean Toomer, Cane
Theodore Weiss, The Catch
William Carlos Williams:
Paterson, Book IV
The Collected Earlier Poems
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
Other in English
Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry, Allahabad: Indian Press, second edition, Bombay: Hind Kitabs (first edition 1929), anthology; Indian poetry in EnglishJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth 2009-08-30 , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
Louis Simpson, ''Good News of Death and Other Poems, Jamaican-born poet living in the United States
Rex Ingamells, The Great South Land, Melbourne, a history of Australia from primordial times, AustraliaJohn Dally Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (1913–1955) ingamells-reginald-charles-rex-10588 1996 14 22 August 2025
Works published in other languages
France
Pierre Jean Jouve, OdeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8
Alphonse Métérié, ProellaBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
Jacques Prévert:
Histoires
Spectacle
Jules Supervielle, Naissances
Frédéric Jacques Temple, Foghorn
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Rajendra Shah, Andolan, Gujarati languageMohan, 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, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
Binod Chandra Nayak, Oriya:
Nilacandrara UpatyakaDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
Candra O tara
Hem Barua, Balichandra, Indian, Assamese
Mangalacharan Chattopadhyay, Mergh Brsti Jar, Bengali
Sumitra Kumari Sinha, Panthini, Hindi-language
Sundaram, Yatra Gujarati language
V. A. Anandakkuttan, Dipavali, Malayalam
Naresh Guha, Duranta Dupur, Bengali
Ajneya, editor, Dusara Saptak, Hindi, influential anthology in the Nai Kavita ("New Poetry") movement, which has been said to have started with this book, which contains poetry from Bhavani Prasad Misra, Sakunta Mathur, Hari Narayan Vyas, Shamasher Bahadur Singh, Naresh Mehta, Raghuvir Sahay and Dharamvir Bharati (see also Tar Saptak 1943)
Other
Simin Behbahani, Seh-tar-e Shekasteh ("The Broken Lute"), Persia
Alberto de Lacerda, Poemas, Portugal
Hushang Ebtehaj (H. E. Sayeh) سراب ("Mirage"), Persian poet published in Iran
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Reḥovot Hanahar ("The Streets of the River"), poems lamenting the loss of Jews in Europe; Hebrew-language, IsraelCarmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 136, Penguin, 1981, 978-0-14-042197-2
Cesare Pavese, Verrà la morte ed avrà i tuoi occhi ("Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes"), Turin: Einaudi; ItalyWeb page titled "Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.
Awards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish poet, author, playwright and writer
Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to E.E. Cummings
National Book Award for Poetry: Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems
Bollingen Prize: John Crowe Ransom
Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Mulgrave Road, Charles Bruce "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Abul Bashar, Bengali poet and writer
January 29 – Neil Shepard, American poet, essayist, professor of creative writing and literary magazine editor
February 23 – Leevi Lehto (died 2019), Finnish poet, translator and programmer
March 12 – Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's author
March 21 – Lesley Choyce, Canadian novelist, writer, children's book writer, poet, and academic, founder of Pottersfield Press, host of the television program "Choyce Words" and "Off the Page"; born in the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1979
April 5 – Lillian Allen, Canadian dub poet
April 21 – Brigit Pegeen Kelly, American poet and academic, daughter of author Robert Glynn Kelly and married to poet Michael Madonick
April 22 – Andrew Hudgins, American poet, essayist and academic
May 2 – Ralph Angel (died 2020), American poet and translator
May 9:
Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet, writer, artist, creative writing teacher and writer in residence at various universities
Jorie Graham, American poet and academic
Joy Harjo, Native-American poet, musician and author
May 30 – Garrett Hongo, American poet and academic, born in Volcano, Hawaii
June 20:
Paul Muldoon Irish poet living in the United States
Noel Rowe (died 2007), Australian, poet, writer, academic and Roman Catholic priest in the Marist order
July 10 – Robert Priest, English-born Canadian poet and children's author
July 25 – Angela Jackson, African American
September 13 – Suzanne Lummis, American poet, teacher and co-founder of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival
October 8 – Jenny Boult, also known as "MML Bliss" (died 2005), AustralianPoetica - 18 November 2006 - Jenny Boult ABC Radio National http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2006/1781824.htm 2007-05-14
October 12 – Peter Goldsworthy, Australian poet, novelist, short-story writer, opera librettist and medical practitioner
November 13 – Robert Hilles, Canadian poet and novelist
December 13 – Anne-Marie Alonzo (died 2005), Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher
Also:
Robin Becker, American
Peter Boyle, AustralianMS 9646/Guide to the Papers of Peter Boyle National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms9646 2007-05-14
Ron Charach, Canadian
Peter Christensen, Canadian
Stephen Edgar, Australian poet, editor and indexer
James Galvin, American poet, novelist and writer
Robert Harris (died 1993), AustralianAustralian Poetry Resources Australian Poetry Resources http://www.austlit.com/a/index.html 2007-05-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20070407034308/http://www.austlit.com/a/index.html 2007-04-07 dead
Peter Johnson, American
Jill Jones, Australian poet and writer
Anne Kellas, South African poet, critic and editor, immigrant to Australia
Kim Maltman, Canadian poet and physicist
Pi O, "П O", Australian poet and anarchist
Betsy Struthers, Canadian poet and novelist
Ania Walwicz, Australian poet, writer and artist
Afaa M. Weaver, American
Robert Wrigley, American poet and academic
Eddy Yanofsky, American
Ray A. Young Bear, American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (born 1903), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
January 31 – Seemab Akbarabadi سیماب اکبرآبادی (born 1882) Urdu poet from India
April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu (born 1890), Estonian
June 18 – Angelos Sikelianos (born 1884), Greek
June 28 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born 1903 or 1904; sources disagree), novelist, writer and poet (a woman; surname: Hayashi)
July 3 – Sydney Jephcott (born 1864), Australian poet
July 21 – Kaykobad (born 1857), Bengali poet
September 18 – Gelett Burgess (born 1866), American artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist
November 13 – Hertha Kräftner (born 1928), GermanHofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
December 4 – Pedro Salinas (born 1891), Spanish
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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