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Events
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
- An inscription of an excerpt of the Poema de Fernán González is discovered on a roofing tile in Merindad de Sotoscueva, the earliest known record of it.
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
- Margaret Avison, Winter Sun[1]
- Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Book[2]
- Kenneth McRobbie, Eyes Without a Face[1]
- E. W. Mandel, Fuseli Poems[2]
- Peter Miller, Sonata for Frog and Man[1]
Anthologies
- A. J. M. Smith, the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, including untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with English-language poems[1]
- Edmund Snow Carpenter, an anthropologist, editor of this volume, Anerca, anonymous Eskimo poems, with drawings by Enooesweetok[1]
Indian subcontinent in English
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
- Sasthi Brata, Eleven Poems, Calcutta: published by the author; India, Indian poetry in English[3]
- Nissim Ezekiel, The Unfinished Man: Poems Written in 1959, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[3]
- Raul De Loyola Furtado, The Oleanders and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[3]
- Dom Moraes, John Nobody, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, Homage to Clio[1]
- Sir John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells[4]
- Edwin Bronk, A Family Affair, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press[5]
- Austin Clarke, The Hore-Eaters (see also Ancient Lights 1955 in poetry, Too Great a Vine 1957)[4]
- Patric Dickinson, The World I See[4]
- Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems[1]
- D. J. Enright, Some Men Are Brothers[1]
- Ted Hughes, Lupercal, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper[1][5]
- John Knight, Straight Lines and Unicorns[1]
- Peter Levi, The Gravel Ponds[1]
- Patrick Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling[1]
- Norman MacCaig, A Common Grace[1]
- Dom Moraes, Poems, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
- Edwin Muir, Collected Poems (posthumous)[1]
- Sylvia Plath, The Coolossus, and Other Poems[4]
- William Plomer, Collected Poems[1]
- Peter Redgrove, The Collector, and Other Poems,[4] London: Routledge and Kegan Paul[1][5]
- James Reeves, Collected Poems 1929–59[4]
- Charles Tomlinson, Seeing is Believing[1]
- Andrew Young, Collected Poems[1]
United States
- Paul Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush
- Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters
- E. E. Cummings, Collected Poems
- Robert Duncan, Selected Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books[1][5]
- Paul Engle, Poems in Praise, including the sonnet sequence "For the Iowa Dead"
- Jean Garrigue, A Water Walk by Villa d'Este[1]
- Ramon Guthrie, Graffiti[1]
- Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, New York: Atheneum[5]
- LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, New York: Totem/Corinth Books[5]
- Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees posthumous, edited by Donald Justice
- Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues[1]
- Galway Kinnell, What a Kingdom It Was, Boston: Houghton Mifflin[5]
- Denise Levertov, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads[1]
- Robert Lowell, Life Studies, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy[5]
- James Merrill, Water Street, Atheneum Publishers[6]
- W. S. Merwin, Drunk in the Furnace[6]
- Howard Moss, A Winter Come, a Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960, New York: Scribner's[5]
- Howard Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, University of Chicago Press[5]
- Charles Olson:
- Ezra Pound, Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, multi-lingual cantos[1]
- Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Boston: Houghton Mifflin[5]
- Wilfred Townley Scott, Scrimshaw[1]
- W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle[1]
- Theodore Weiss, Outlanders, New York: Macmillan[5]
- Reed Whittemore, The Self-Made Man and Other Poems[1]
- Yvor Winters, Collected Poems, Chicago: The Swallow Press[6]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry (college textbook), originally published in 1938, goes into its third edition (a fourth will be published in 1976)
- Ed Dorn, What I See in the Maximum Poems, Migrant Press (criticism)[7]
- Karl Shapiro, In Defense of Ignorance, an attack on the dominant critical values of modern poetry in the vein of T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960, aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets. In the longer term it attained a classic status, with critical approval and continuing sales. It was reprinted in 1999.
Poets represented:
Helen Adam – John Ashbery – Paul Blackburn – Robin Blaser – Ebbe Borregaard – Bruce Boyd – Ray Bremser – Brother Antoninus – James Broughton – Paul Carroll – Gregory Corso – Robert Creeley – Edward Dorn – Kirby Doyle – Robert Duerden – Robert Duncan – Larry Eigner – Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Edward Field – Allen Ginsberg – Madeline Gleason – Barbara Guest – LeRoi Jones – Jack Kerouac – Kenneth Koch – Philip Lamantia – Denise Levertov – Ron Loewinsohn – Edward Marshall – Michael McClure – David Meltzer – Frank O'Hara – Charles Olson – Joel Oppenheimer – Peter Orlovsky – Stuart Perkoff – James Schuyler – Gary Snyder – Gilbert Sorrentino – Jack Spicer – Lew Welch – Philip Whalen – John Wieners – Jonathan Williams
Other in English
- Allen Curnow, The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, New Zealand[8]
Works 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:
French language
Canada
- Anne Hébert, Poèmes[1]
- Michèle Lalonde:
- Paul Morin, Géronte et son mirior[1]
- Yves Préfontaine, L'Antre du poème[1]
- Pierre Trottier, Les Belles au bois dormant[1]
- Gilles Vigneault, Etraves[1]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Gérard Bessette, Les Images en poésie canadienne-française[1]
France
- Louis Aragon, Les Poètes[1]
- Georges Emmanuel Clancier, Evidences[1]
- Paul Géraldy, Vous et moi[1]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Proses[1]
- St. John Perse, Chronique[1]
Spanish language
Latin America
- Manuel Blanco-González, La luna et lluvia[1]
- Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela[1]
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the Rubén Darío Prize[1]
- Manuel Durán, La paloma azul[1]
- Germán Pardo García, Centauro al sol[1]
- León de Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by Jorge Zalamea (Colombia)[1]
- Carlos García-Prada, editor, Escala del sueño, anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets[1]
- Elías Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico)[1]
Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of the Peruvian poet's verse[1]
- Antonio Oliver Belmás, Este otro Rubén Darío[1]
- Gastón Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela Mistral[1]
- Manuel Pedro González, editor, Antología crítica de José Marti, including writing by Darío, Gabriela Mistral, Unamuno, and Onís[1]
- Glen L. Kolb, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, "A Study of the Life, Times and Poetry of a Spanish Colonial Satirist"[1]
- Eduardo Neale-Silva, Horizonte humano, the first detailed biographical study of the Colombian poet José Eustasio Rivera[1]
- Federico de Onís, Luis Palês Matos—vida y obra-bibliografía, antología, poesías, inéditas, a study of the Puerto Rican poet's life and artistic development[1]
Other
- Odysseus Elytis, Έξη και μια τύψεις για τον ουρανό ("Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky"), Greece
- H. M. Enzensberger, editor, Museum der modernen Poesie, anthology of international modernist poetry, German[9]
- Haim Gouri, Shoshanat Ruhot ("Compass Rose"), Israeli writing in Hebrew
Awards and honors
United Kingdom
- Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman
United States
- National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Life Studies
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
- Bollingen Prize: Delmore Schwartz
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jesse Stuart
Greece
- First State Poetry Price: Odysseus Elytis
Births
- January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, American academic, writer, poet, film and cultural historian, and producer.
- February 12 – George Elliott Clarke, Canadian poet and playwright
- Also:
- Jeffery Donaldson, Canadian poet, critic, and theorist
- Dipti Saravanamuttu, Sri Lankan-Australian poet, academic, journalist and script writer who moved to Australia as a child in 1972
- Alexis Stamatis, Greek
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 14 – Ralph Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
- February 28 – F. S. Flint (born 1885), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
- March 23 – Franklin Pierce Adams, 78 (born 1881), American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of poetry
- May 30 – Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of lung cancer
- June 17 – Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French
- August 8 – Harry Kemp, 76
- November 9 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (born 1886), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet and playwright
- Also:
- Frances Cornford, English poet
- Walter D'Arcy Creswell (born 1896), New Zealand
- David Diop
- Frank S. Flint
See also
Notes
- ^ 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 ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc Britannica Book of the Year 1961, covering events of 1960, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961; articles: American Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Soviet Literature, Obituaries
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f 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 M. 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
- ^ a b c Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
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