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[edit] Events
- Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbe's The Borough
- Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States
- March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joined the Communist Party of Chile four months later.
- April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, were on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crushed them and then shoved them, still living, into a mass grave. Soon after, a group of prisoners passed them, including a cousin of theirs. From their hiding place in her clothes, Henia Karmel ripped out some poems she and her sister had written and handed them to her cousin to give to her husband, Leon, back in Krakow. The cousin did deliver the poems, and the sisters were also saved by a nearby farmer who took them to a hospital. Henia wrote in 1947, "these poems are real, not just scribblings.[they] came about when I was still creating myself, experiencing the pain of separation. How I could have survived, you might ask? If so, sir, you know nothing of life. It lasted, that’s all." Henia wrote in her poem, "Snapshots": "My name is Number 906. / And guess what? I still write verse."[1]
- May 2, 1945, Ezra Pound was arrested by Italian partisans, and taken (according to Hugh Kenner) "to their HQ in Chiavari, where he was soon released as possessing no interest." The next day, he turned himself in to U.S. forces. He was incarcerated in a United States Army detention camp outside Pisa, spending 25 days in an open cage before being given a tent. Here he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown. While in the camp he drafted the Pisan Cantos, a section of the work in progress which marks a shift in Pound's work, being a meditation on his own and Europe's ruin and on his place in the natural world. The Pisan Cantos won the first Bollingen Prize from the Library of Congress in 1948.
- June — Australia's most celebrated literary hoax takes place when Angry Penguins is published with poems by the fictional Ern Malley. Poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart created the poems from lines of other poems and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax was played on Max Harris, then a 22-year-old avant garde poet and critic who had started the modernist magazine, Angry Penguins. Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely-unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australia. The Autumn 1944 edition of the magazine with the poems came out in mid-1945 due to wartime printing delays. An Australian newspaper uncovered the hoax within weeks. McAuley and Stewart loved early Modernist poets but despised later modernism and especially the well-funded Angry Penguins and were jealous of Harris's precocious success.
- Two small Canadian literary magazines, Preview and First Statement (each founded separately in 1942) combined to form Northern Review (which lasts until 1956).[2]
- Kyk-over-al magazine founded in Guyana[3]
[edit] 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:
[edit] Canada
- Irving Layton, Here and Now[4]
- Elizabeth Smart, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" (prose poem)
- Miriam Waddington, Green World[4]
[edit] United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, English poet living in the United States
- Collected Poems
- For the Time Being[5]
- John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries[5]
- Walter de la Mare, The Burning-Glass, and Othr Poems[5]
- W. S. Graham, Second Poems[5]
- Michael Hamburger, Later Hogarth[5]
- A. P. Herbert, Light the Lights[5]
- Philip Larkin, The North Ship, London: Dent[6]
- Alun Lewis, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, foreward by Robert Graves; posthumously published[5]
- Ruth Pitter, The Bridge[5]
- William Plomer, The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires[5]
- F. T. Prince, Soldiers Bathing, and Other Poems[5]
- Henry Treece, The Black Seasons[5]
- Vernon Watkins, The Lamp and the Veil[5]
[edit] United States
- W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, English poet living in the United States
- Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Tribute to the Angels", second part of Trilogy (1944–46) about the experience of the Blitz in wartime London
- Randall Jarrell, Little Friend, Little Friend, including "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", New York: Dial Press[6]
- Wallace Stevens, Esthetique du Mal, Cummington Press[7]
[edit] Other in English
- V.N. Bhushan, editor, The Peacock Lute: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indian Writers, Bombay: Padma Pub., 155 pages; Indian poetry in English[8]
- George Campbell (poet), First Poems, Caribbean[3]
- Allen Curnow, editor, A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923–45 (Caxton), New Zealander[9]
- Serapia Devi, The Book of Beneficent Grief and Other Poems, Lahore: R. S. Ram Jawaya Kapur; India, Indian poetry in English[10]
- Denis Glover, The Wind and the Sand, New Zealander[11]
- Kenneth Slessor, Australian Poetry, anthology, Australia
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] 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:
[edit] Kashmiri
- Abdul Ahad Azad, Daryav, the author's magnum opus, on the theme of political revolution[12]
- Mahjoor:
[edit] Other Indian languages
- Desikavinayagam Pillai, translator, Umarkayyam Patalkar, translation into Tamil of Edward Fitzgerald's English translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat[12]
- Devakanta Barua, Sagar dekhisa , Indian, Assamese-language[12]
- Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, Prabhatamu-Sandhya, Indian, Telugu-language[12]
- Dinu Bhai Pant, Guttalum, seven poems, including two lengthy ones, Dogri[12]
- E. V. R. Namputiri, translator, Mahakavih Krtyah, translation into Sanskrit from the Malayalam poems of Ulloor[12]
- Firak, Urdu Ki 'ishqiyah sha'iri, a major Urdu poet's literary criticism in Urdu on the idea of love as expressed in that language's poetry[12]
- G. Sankara Kurup, Nimisam, Malayalam[12]
- Gopal Prasad Rimal, Masan ("The Crematorium"), Indian, Nepali-language[12]
- Gurnam Singh Tir, Hasdi Dunia, Punjabi[12]
- Laksmiprasad Devkota, Sakuntal, the first epic poem in the Nepali language, 24 cantos in Sanskrit Varnik meters, and the diction is very "Sanskritized"[12]
- P. V. Krishnan Nair, translator, Madirotsava, translation into Sanskrit of Edward Fitzgerald's English translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat[12]
- Pappukkutti Kotamangalam, Katattuvanci, one of the first poetry books of the progressive movement in Malayalam[12]
- Trilochan, Dharti, Hindi-languge pragativadi poems largely on man's struggles and life's contraditions[12]
- V. R. M. Chettiyar, translator, Kitancali, translation into Tamil from the Indian poetry in English of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali[12]
[edit] Other languages
- Mario Benedetti, La víspera indeleble ("Indelible Eve"), his first published book, Uruguay[13]
[edit] Awards
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Louise Bogan appointed this year. She would serve until sometime in 1946.
- Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 14 – Stephen Morse, American
- February 2 – Yoshihiko Funazaki 舟崎 克彦, Japanese novelist, poet, illustrator, manga writer, songwriter, and academic (surname: Funazaki)
- February 23 – Robert Gray, Australian
- April 2 – Anne Waldman, American
- April 30 – Annie Dillard, American poet and 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner
- June 7 – Falguni Ray (died 1981), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
- June 21 – Adam Zagajewski Polish poet, novelist, and essayist
- July 7 – Ikezawa Natsuki 池澤夏樹, Japanese novelist, essayist, translator and poet who stopped publishing poetry in 1982 (surname: Ikezawa)
- July 21 – Wendy Cope, English
- August 13 – Tom Wayman, Canadian poet and academic
- August 31 – Van Morrison, OBE, Irish poet, singer, songwriter, author, and musician
- Also:
- Terry Blackhawk
- Marianne Bluger
- Syl Cheyney-Coker
- Dick Davis (poet)[14]
- W. S. Di Piero
- Norman Dubie, American
- Calvin Forbes, African-American
- Ellen Jaffe
- Bernadette Mayer, American
- J.D. McClatchy, gay American poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review.
- Carol Muske-Dukes, American
- Alice Notley, American
- Carolyn M. Rodgers, American
- Ira Sadoff, American poet and academic
- Leon Stokesbury, American
- Clive Wilmer, English poet and academic
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 15 — Ursula Bethell, New Zealand
- January 22 — Else Lasker-Schuler, 75, poet
- February 16 – Yun Dong-ju, (born 1917), Korean poet, died in a Japanese prison (surname: Yoon; also spelled "Yoon Dong-joo" and "Yun Tong-ju")
- March 20 — Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
- May 15 — Charles Williams, British writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
- June 8 — Robert Desnos, was a French surrealist poet.
- July 20 — Paul Valéry, French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet
- August 26 — Franz Werfel (born 1890), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
- December 14 — Maurice Baring, versatile English man of letters: a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
- date not known – Capel Boake
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Book Notes" column, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2008, accessed April 17, 2008, a capsule review by Lilah Hegnauerof A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, by Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California Press, 2007
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ a b "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ "Denis Glover" article in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
- ^ Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 40: "Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960"
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