1948 in poetry

none 1948 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January 6 – Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding. Summer – Composer Richard Strauss sets three short poems by Hermann Hesse to music; they become part of his valedictory Four Last Songs, his final works before his death in 1949. September 17 – The remains of Irish poet W. B. Yeats (who died at Menton, France in 1939) are re-buried at Drumcliffe, County Sligo, "Under bare Ben Bulben's head", having been moved from the original burial place, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on Irish Naval Service corvette LÉ Macha. His grave at Drumcliffe, with an epitaph from "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems ("Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horseman, pass by"), becomes a place of literary pilgrimage Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduces the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at this time to the novelist John Clellon Holmes Di Goldene Keyt, an Israeli literary quarterly, is founded The Bollingen Prize is established by Paul Mellon, funded by a $10,000 grant from the Bollingen Foundation to the Library of Congress. 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."Earle Birney: Published Works", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Roy Daniels, Deeper into the ForestGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Robert Finch, The Strength of the Hills A. M. Klein, The Rocking Chair and Other Poems. Governor General's Award 1948. Irving Layton, Now Is The Place: Stories and Poems. Montreal: First Statement Press."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. Douglas Le Pan, The Wounded Prince L. A. MacKay, The Ill-Tempered Lover A. J. M. Smith, editor, The Book of Canadian Poetry, anthology (see also editions of 1943, 1957) Arthur Stringer, New York Nocturnes. Toronto: Ryerson. India, in English Bimal Chandra Bose, Gandhi-Gita ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 Gurdial Mallik, Hound of the Heart ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Naranda Publications Dilip Kumar Roy, Eyes of Light ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Nalanda PublicationsAmrita 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, 81-7625-111-9, 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), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, He Walked Alone ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Bharat Publishing HouseVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 United Kingdom Richard Aldington, Complete PoemsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Edward Andrade, He Likens Her to a Soldier John Betjeman, Selected Poems Lilian Bowes Lyon, Collected Poems Lawrence Durrell, On Seeming to Presume T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture D. J. Enright, Season Ticket Robert Farren, The Course of Irish Verse in English, Irish criticism W. S. Graham, The Voyages of Alfred Wallis Robert Graves, The White Goddess, a "historical grammar" of poetic myth and inspiration Jacquetta Hawkes, Symbols and SpeculationsObituary: Jacquetta Hawkes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jacquetta-hawkes-1343032.html 2019-09-20 The Independent London 2011-10-23 John Heath-Stubbs, The Swarming of the Bees Hamish Henderson, Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revised in 1978https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/14/guardianobituaries.obituaries Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares The Guardian John Sutherland John Sutherland (author) 2005-06-14 2008-04-22 London Louis MacNeice, Holes in the Sky Norman Nicholson, Rock Face Vernon Scannell, Graves and Resurrections Sydney Goodsir Smith, Under the Eildon Tree: a poem in XXIV elegies Vernon Watkins, The Lady with the Unicorn United States W. H. Auden, "In Praise of Limestone", a poem published in Horizon in July (written in May), later published in a collection in 1951 (native English poet living in the United States) John Berryman, The DispossessedLudwig, 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) Richard Ellmann, Yeats, The Man And The Mask, United States, biography William Everson, The Residual Years, New DirectionsRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, 0-393-09357-3 Langston Hughes, One-Way Ticket, Alfred A. Knopf Randall Jarrell, Losses Robinson Jeffers, The Double Axe and Other Poems, largely critical of U.S. policy, the book came with an extremely unconventional note from Random House that the views expressed by Jeffers were not those of the publisher; several influential literary critics disapproved of the book, with particularly scathing pieces penned by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Rexroth, who had previously commented favorably on Jeffers' work Archibald MacLeish, Actfive and Other Poems William Meredith, Ships and Other Figures Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos The Cantos of Ezra Pound Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son and Other Poems Muriel Rukeyser, The Green Wave May Sarton, The Lion and the Rose Wallace Stevens, A Primitive Like an Orb, Publisher: Gotham Book MartWeb page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. Winfield Townley Scott, Mr. Whittier Mark Van Doren, New Poems Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum William Carlos Williams: Paterson, Book II Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia Other in English James K. Baxter, Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness, New Zealand V. N. Bhusan, The Far Ascent, Bombay: Padma Pub.; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Charles Brasch: Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New ZealandWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm September 28, 2006 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Robert Farren, The Course of Irish Verse in English, Irish criticism published in the United Kingdom Derek Walcott, 25 Poems 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 Louis Aragon, Le Nouveau Creve-CoeurAuster, 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 André Breton, Poemes Aimé Césaire, Soleil cou coupé;Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820–1950, p 810, Penguin, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3 Paris: K René Char, Fureur et mystere Paul Éluard, Corps mémorable Henri Michaux, La Vie dans les plis ("Life in the Folds") Saint-John Perse, Anabase, revised edition (first edition 1924)Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" https://web.archive.org/web/20090221144323/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/perse-bibl.html 2009-02-21 at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009 Jacques Prévert, Histoires Francis Ponge, Proêmes Raymond Queneau: L'Instant fatal Saint-GlinglinBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Georges Schéhadé, Hosties noires India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Bengali Sukanta Bhattacharya, Chharpatra, posthumous Jibanananda Das, Satti Tarar Timur Mangalacharan Chattopadhyay, Telangana-O-Anyanya KabitaDas, 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, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Premendra Mitra, Pherari Phauj Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Agnikon Kannada Gangadhara Chittala, Kalada Kare, lyrics on the theme of "time" M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Kattuvevu, his first collection of lyrics 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 Ananta Patnaik, Tarpana Kare Aji, poems on Gandhi, Oriya Asi, pen name of Abdul Bari, Rubaiyati Asi, Urdu Buddhidhari Singha, Amar Bapu, Maithili Harivans Rai Bacchan, Sut Ki Mala, 111 eleven poems on Gandhi and his ideology, Hindi Khumanthem Ibohal Singh, Nacome Lei ("Bouquet"), Manipuri Maheswar Neog, Sri Sri Sankaradeva, Assamese 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 N. V. Krishna Varier, Ninta Kavitakal, long poems in Malayalam Nayaya vijaya Muni, Visva Vibhuti Svargaroha, a poem on Gandhi's death, Sanskrit Sumitranandan Pant, Visva Vibhuti Svargaroha, Hindi-language poems written in homage to Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo Upendranath Jha, Sannyasi, a Kanda Kavya in blank verse, Maithili Other languages García Baena, Mientras cantan los pájaros ("While Birds Sing"), SpainDebicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009 Aimé Césaire, Soleil cou coupé, Martinique author published in France Peter Huchel, Gedichte (Poems), East Germany Bohumil Hrabal, Ztracená ulička ("A Lost Alley"), Czechoslovakia Henryk Jasiczek, Rozmowy z ciszą ("Conversations with Silence"), Poland Olga Kirsch, Mure van die Hart, Afrikaans, South Africa Paul la Cour, Fragmenter af en Dagbog ("Fragments of a Diary"), Denmark"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 Alexander Mezhirov, Kommunisty, vpered!, "Communists, Ahead!" poem reprinted in his second collection, New Encounters, and in many volumes, anthologies and samplers; Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer, 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, 0-7656-0521-X, 978-0-7656-0521-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009 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"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 Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: T. S. Eliot Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Léonie Adams appointed this year. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Percy MacKaye Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Rocking Chair and Other Poems, A. M. Klein"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. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110514183017/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf 2011-05-14 North Carolina Poet Laureate: Arthur Talmage Abernethy (the first one to hold the office) Births Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 14 – Nasrollah Mardani (died 2003), Iranian poet January 22 – Timothy Steele, American poet and academic January 31 – Albert Goldbarth, American poet February 16 – Jeff Guess, Australian poet March 5 – Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo descent American writer, a figure in the "Native American Renaissance" March 28 – Iman Budhi Santosa, Indonesian writer April 6 – Anna Couani, Australian poet and teacher May 13 – R. S. Gwynn, American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism May 16 – Manglesh Dabral (died 2020), Indian Hindi poet and journalist May 24 – Lorna Crozier, Canadian poet May 29 – David Waltner-Toews, Canadian poet, writer and veterinary epidemiologist June 11 – David Lehman, American poet and series editor for The Best American Poetry book series June 29 – John Ash, English-born poet and writer July 7 – Stephen Ratcliffe, American poet and publisher August 1 – Frank Stanford (died 1978), American poet August 20 – Heather McHugh, American poet September 9 – Sherod Santos, American poet and academic October 3 – Barrett Watten, American poet October 6 – Zakes Mda (Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda), South African novelist, poet and playwright October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American author, poet and naturalist October 9 – Ciaran Carson, Northern Irish poet and novelist October 18 – Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay) née Paulette Williams (died 2018), African-American playwright, performance artist, writer and poet November 14 – Kristina Lugn (died 2020), Swedish poet and dramatist November 29 – George Szirtes, Hungarian-born English poet and translator Also: Ali Al Shargawi (علي الشرقاوي), Bahraini poet Aung Cheint (died 2021), Burmese poet Qassim Haddad, Bahraini free verse political poet Umar Bin Hassan, American poet Brian Henderson, Canadian poet and writer Bob Holman, American poet Lawrence Joseph, American poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer and law professor Yitzhak Laor (יצחק לאור), Israeli poet, author and journalist Denise Riley, English poet Deaths Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Vicente Huidobro (born 1893), Chilean poet February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi (born 1878), Bengali poet May 22 – Claude McKay (born 1889), Jamaican-born American writer, humanist, Communist and part of the Harlem Renaissance March 14 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (born 1888), Taishō and Shōwa period Japanese poet (surname: Senge) June 17 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (born 1911), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translatorPaniker, 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 August 25 – Gordon Bottomley (born 1874), English poet, known for his verse dramas August 31 – Andrei Zhdanov, 52 (born 1896), 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 diversionStites, Richard. Soviet Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press: 1992. 117. December 13 – Michael Roberts, 46 (born 1902), English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster and teacher See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *