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Events
- September 3 — 19-year-old John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator, flew a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V and afterwards wrote "High Flight" about the experience, on December 11 he dies while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he had joined before the United States had officially entered World War II
- The Antioch Review founded
- Basil Bunting joins the RAF and is eventually sent to Iran as an intelligence officer and a translator during World War II.
- December — In siege-bound Leningrad, Yakov Druskin, ill and starving, and Maria Malich, the second wife of Danil Kharms, trudge across the city to Kharms' bombed-out apartment building and collect a trunk full of manuscripts. They hide the manuscripts through the 1940s and 1950s, even bringing them to Siberia, then covertly show them to others in the 1960s. Their actions save much of Kharms' work for posterity as well as that of fellow poet Alexander Vvedensky (of whom only about a quarter of his output survives)[1]
- Under the Nazi occupation beginning in June 1941, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was among the Polish Jews interned in the Vilna Ghetto. He would escape and join the resistance in 1943. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever wrote over 80 poems, whose manuscripts he managed to save for postwar publication.
- Ezra Pound applies to return to the United States but is refused. He begins appearing on Rome Radio, making statements against the Allies.[2]
- The magazine VVV founded in New York City by French poet André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and David Hare[3]
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:
India, in English
- Baldoon Dhingra, Comes Ever the Dawn, Lahore: Ripon Press[4]
- Hariprasad Sastri, editor and translator, Indian Mystic Verse, (3rd revised and enlarged edition 1984) anthology[5]
- Manjeri Sundaraman, Brief Orisons, Madras: Hurley Press[4]
- Thurairajah Tambimuttu, editor, Out of This War, London: Fortune Press; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom [5]
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, New Year Letter (sometimes incorrectly called New Year Letters, with an "s"), May (published as The Double Man in the United States in March),[6] English poet living in the United States
- Laurence Binyon, The North Star, and Other Poems[7]
- Edmund Blunden, Poems 1930–1940[7]
- T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages, published in New English Weekly, republished in Four Quartets, 1944[7]
- G. S. Fraser, The Fatal Landscape and Other Poems
- J. F. Hendry and Henry Treece, editors, The White Horseman, poetry anthology[7] featuring poets in the New Apocalyptics movement
- Louis MacNeice, Plant and Phantom[7]
- W. R. Rodgers, Awake! and Other Poems[7]
- Alan Ross, Summer Thunder[7]
- A. L. Rowse, Poems of a Decade[7]
- Sydney Goodsir Smith, Skail Wind, in Scots and English[7]
- Thurairajah Tambimuttu, editor, Out of This War, London: Fortune Press; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom [5]
- Terence Tiller, Poems, New Hogarth Library 5[7]
- Vernon Watkins, The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, and Other Poems[7]
United States
- W. H. Auden, The Double Man, published in March; later published as New Year Letter in the United Kingdom in May;[6] English poet living in the United States
- Stephen Vincent Benet, A Summons to the Free[8]
- John Peale Bishop, Selected Poems[8]
- Louise Bogan, Poems and New Poems[8]
- Paul Engle, West of Midnight[8]
- Kenneth Fearing, Dagger of the Mind[8]
- John Gould Fletcher, South Star[8]
- Robinson Jeffers, Be Angry at the Sun[8]
- Edgar Lee Masters, Illinois Poems[8]
- Josephine Miles, Poems on Several Occasions[8]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Sonnets[8]
- Marianne Moore, What Are Years[8]
- John G. Neihardt, The Song of Jed Smith[8]
- Carl Rakosi, Selected Poems
- John Crowe Ransom, The New Criticism, criticism[8]
- Charles Reznikoff, Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down, self-published
- Theodore Roethke, Open House[8]
- Winfield Townley Scott, Wind the Clock[8]
- Ridgely Torrence, Poems[8]
- Mark Van Doren, The Mayfield Deer[8]
- William Carlos Williams, The Broken Span[8]
- Louis Zukofsky, 55 Poems
Other in English
- Allen Curnow, Island Time (Caxton), New Zealand[9]
- Rex Ingamells and John Ingamells, At a Boundary, Adelaide, written by two brothers, includes Reginald Ingamells' "The Gangrened People", Australia[10]
- R. A. K. Mason, The Dark Will Lighten, New Zealand[9]
- Bertram Warr, Yet a Little Onwards, Broadsheet No. 3, Resurgam Younger Poets series, Favil Press, Canada[11]
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 Creve-Coeur[3]
- Luc Estang, Puissance du matin[12]
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Haute Solitude[3]
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Abanindranath Tagore and Rani Chanda, a memoir describing the lives of the family that included Rabindranath Tagore; a companion volume to Joda Sakor Dhare 1944 and Apan Katha 1946; Bengali[13]
- Ananta Pattanayak, Tarpana Kare Aji, Indian, Oriya-language[13]
- Baidyanath Mishra, also known as "Yatri", a dramatic monologue given by a child-widow character, told in colloquial language, a new development in Maithili poetry[13]
- Bewa Balwant, Maha Nac, Punjabi-language poems inspired by Marxist and left-leaning politics[13]
- Darshan Singh Awara, Main Bagi Han, Punjabi-language poems reflecting anger toward society as well as religious traditions and institutions[13]
- Dimbeshwar Neog, Svahid Karbala, Assamese-language narrative poem on a tragedy at Karbala and the martyrdom of Hussain[13]
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Indian, Urdu-language[13]
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Manjir, Indian, Hindi[13]
- Hari Daryani, Hariscandra Jivana Katha, Sindhi-language (India)[13]
- M. U. Malkani, Gitanjali, translation into Sindhi from the English of Rabindranath Thakur's book of the same name[13]
- Mohammad Mumtaz Ali, Amir Minasi, biography of the Urdu poet Amir Minai (1828–1900), including descriptions of Minai's works; written in Urdu[13]
- Narayan Bezbarua, Sakti Singa, Indian, Assamese[13]
- Pritam Singh Safir, Kattak Kunjam, Indian, Punjabi-language[13]
- Sri Chandra Singh, "Vadali", a Rajasthani-language nature poem in 130 verses which influenced Rajasthani poets for a generation[13]
- Sumitra Kumari Sinha, Vihag, Hindi[13]
- Syed Kalbe Mustapha, Malik Muhammad Ja'isi, biography in Urdu of Malik Mohammad Jaisi, a Hindi poet of the 15th century, with descriptions of the poet's works[13]
- Wahab Pare of Hajin, Kashmiri Shahnama Firdosi, an adaptation in Kashmiri of the Persian classic poem by Firdousi; with a canto added at the end[13]
Other languages
- Gerardo Diego, Alondra de verdad ("True Lark"), 42 sonnets on diverse topics; Spain[14]
- Federico García Lorca, Diván del Tamarit (Spanish for "The Diván of Tamarit", written in 1936, published posthumously this year
- Jyotsna Shukla, Akashnan Phool, Indian poet writing in Gujarati[15]
Awards and honors
United States
- Frost Medal: Robert Frost
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 7 – Kevin Crossley-Holland, English poet and children's author
- February 19 – Stephen Dobyns, American poet and novelist
- March 1 – Robert Hass, American poet
- March 22 – Billy Collins, American poet who served two terms as the 44th Poet Laureate of the United States (2001-2003)
- April 12 – Toi Derricotte, American poet
- May 17 – Lyn Hejinian, American poet essayist, translator and publisher often associated with the Language poets
- May 22 – Simon J. Ortiz
- May 27 – Simon Ortiz Native American poet and writer associated with the Native American Renaissance
- August 4 – Robert Grenier, American poet essayist, and editor often associated with the Language poets
- September 1 – Gwendolyn MacEwen (died 1987), a Canadian novelist and poet
- October 2 – John Sinclair, American poet jailed in 1969 after selling two joints to undercover narcotics officers. In 1971 his case received international attention when John Lennon performed at a benefit concert on his behalf.
- October 13 – John Snow, cricketer and poet
- November 23 – Derek Mahon Irish poet
- November 29 – Lloyd Schwartz
- date not known:
- David MacLeod Black, South African-born Scots poet
- Jonathan Holden, American poet and academic
- Jeremy Hooker, English poet, critic, lecturer and broadcaster
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis, American poet, essayist, critic and academic
- Dave Margoshes
- William Pitt Root, American
- David Rosenfield
- Gibbons Ruark, American
- Stephen Yenser
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – F. R. Higgins, poet
- January 13 – James Joyce, Irish poet and writer
- January 23 – John Oxenham, novelist and poet
- February 5 – A.B. (`Banjo') Paterson, Australian bush poet, journalist and author
- March 13 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (born 1880), American novelist and poet
- May 2 – Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (born 1905), Palestinian, Arab-language
- May 19 – Lola Ridge (born 1873), American anarchist poet, editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
- June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, poet
- August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, 80 (born 1861), a Bengali poet in India, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1913 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
- August 30 – Jiri Orten
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet
- Also:
- Aline Kilmer
- Alexander Vvedensky, Russian poet with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union; arrested under suspicion of planning treason and shipped off to a labor camp, he died of dysentery on the way (for the fate of his poetry, see Events section above)
See also
Notes
- ^ [1] Epstien, Thomas, "Vvedensky in Love", article in The New Arcadia Review "published by the Boston College Honors Program", Volume II, 2004, accessed December 8, 2006
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
- ^ a b c 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
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b c Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ a b Cowley, Malcolm, review in The New Republic, April 7, 1941, pp 473-474, as it appears in Haffenden, John, W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage, p 309, book reprint published by Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415159401, retrieved via Google Books, February 5, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ "Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913 - 1955)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition, retrieved May 12, 2009. Archived 2009-05-14.
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
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