1954 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review[1]
- Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
- January 25 — Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood is broadcast on radio
[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] United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, Fantasy Press
- John Heath-Stubbs, A Charm Against the Toothace
- Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United Kingdom[2]
- G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom[2]
- W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom[2]
- Jon Silkin, The Peaceable Kingdom, including "Death of a Son (who died in a mental hospital aged one)"
- Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishers
[edit] United States
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954
- Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
- William Carlos Williams, The Desert Music and Other Poems
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Hugh Kenner, Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook, criticism, United States
- W. C. Williams, Selected Essays, criticism, United States[3]
[edit] Other
- Frank Prince, Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems, South African
- Keith Sinclair, Strangers or Beasts: Poems, New Zealand
- P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Canada[4]
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Haim Gouri, Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[5]
- Wisława Szymborska, Pytania zadawane sobie ("Questioning Yourself"), Poland
[edit] Awards and honors
- National Book Award for Poetry: Conrad Aiken, Collected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: The Waking
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson
- Bollingen Prize: W. H. Auden
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louise Townsend Nicholl and Oliver St. John Gogarty
[edit] Births
- April 17 – Erin Mouré, Canadian poet
- July 31 – Kim Addonizio, American poet and novelist
- August 8 – Yu Jian, China[6]
- August 15 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet
- October 15 – Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
- November 10 – Joy Goswami (born 1954), Indian Bengali poet (a man)
- December 5 – Lynda Hull, American poet
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American poet and author
- Date not known:
- Catherine Anderson (poet), American
- David Baker, American
- Robert Boates, Canadian
- Lorna Dee Cervantes, American
- Janet Charman, New Zealand
- Cornelius Eady, African American poet
- Sotiris Kakisis, Greek poet
- Jan Heller Levi, American
- Thylias Moss, African American poet, writer, and playwright
- Luis J. Rodriguez, American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist
- Stephen Sartarelli, poet and translator
- Vijay Seshadri poet, essayist, and literary critic
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Leonard Bacon (poet), 66 (born 1887)
- March 28 – Francis Brett Young, 73 (born 1884), English novelist and poet
- May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, 62 (born 1892), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians"
- October 22 – Jibananda Das (born 1899), Bengali poet
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353
- ^ Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 66
- ^ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian", article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
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