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] Canada
- Daryl Hine, Five Poems[2]
- Jay Macpherson, O Earth Return[2]
- P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Canada[3]
[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[4]
- G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom[4]
- W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom[4]
- 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
- Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section including "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), Knopf[5]
- 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[6]
[edit] Other
- Martin Carter, Poems of Resistance, Guyana[7]
- Wilson Harris, Eternity to Season, Guyana[7]
- Frank Prince, Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems, South African
- Keith Sinclair, Strangers or Beasts: Poems, New Zealand
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] Indian subcontinent
Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
[edit] Hindi
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhan[8]
- Namvar Singh, Chayavad, literary criticism that offers a radically new interpretation of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry; shows the social foundations of Hindi romanticism and its ties to the progressive movement that followed it[8]
- Premchand, Sahitya Ka Uddesya, literary essays; published posthumously[8]
[edit] Malayalam
- P. K. Paramesvaran Nair, Adhunika Sahitya Caritram, history of Malayalam literature (later translated into English and published by Sahitya Akademi in 1967 under the title History of Malayalam Literature)[8]
- Sreedhara Menon, Kunnimenikal[8]
- Sukumar Azhikode, Asante Sitakavyam, critical assessment of Kumaran Asan's Cintavishtayaya, Malayalam[8]
[edit] Urdu
- Gian Chand Jain, Urdu ki nasri dastanen, literary criticism on classical Urdu fiction ("dastan"), written in that language[8]
- Jigar Brelvi, Payam-i Savitri, a narrative poem on Savitri, a figure from Hindu mythology; Urdu[8]
- Masood Husain Khan, Urdu zaban aur adab, critical study on the Urdu language and literature[8]
[edit] Other languages of the Indian subcontinent
- Baldev Gajra, also known as "Gumnam", Gumnam Sada, nationalist poems; Sindhi[8]
- Buddhadeb Basu, Sahitya Carca, essays on various literary topics; Bengali[8]
- Jayant Pathak, Marmar, the author's first poetry collection; Gujarati[8]
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Cendemaddale, Kannada[8]
- Mohan Singh, Awazan, lyrics with a "romantic progressive ideology", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Punjabi[8]
- Nand Lal Ambardar, Loel Ta Husun, including "Roopavat", Kashmiri[8]
- Nirendranath Chakraborty, Nilnirjan, mostly love poems, although one or two have political elements, Bengali[8]
- Raghunath Singh Samyal, Dogra Desa Te Dogari Boli, Dogri poetry praising Dograland, Dogra people and the Dogri language[8]
- P. Kunjiraman Nair, Kaliyacchan, poems reflecting traditional ways of life in Kerala; Malayalam[8]
- Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Samkalpa ("Resolve"), Nepali[8]
- Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, also spelled "Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastri", Andhra Puranamu, Telugu, (surname: Satyanarayanashastri)[8]
- Manoj Das, Padadvani, Oriya[8]
- Satramdas, also known as "Sail", Rama Katha, 32 cantos in a Persian meter, written in the wake of the partition of India in 1947; Sindhi[8]
- Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Nannayagari prasanna Katha Kalitartha Yukti, critical appraisal of Nannaya; Telugu[8]
[edit] Other languages
- Haim Gouri, Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[9]
- 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
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 26 – Dorothy Porter (died 2008), Australian
- April 17 – Erin Mouré, Canadian
- May 25 – Alexei Parshchikov (died 2009), Russian poet, critic and translator who emigrated to the United States in 1991
- July 19 – Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canadian short story writer, poet and photographer
- July 31 – Kim Addonizio, American poet and novelist
- August 6 – Lorna Dee Cervantes, American
- August 8 – Yu Jian, China[10]
- August 15 – Mary Jo Salter, American
- October 15 – Peter Bakowski, Australian
- November 10 – Joy Goswami, Indian Bengali poet (a man)
- December 5 – Lynda Hull, American
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American poet and author
- Also:
- Catherine Anderson (poet), American
- David Baker, American
- Robert Boates, Canadian
- Janet Charman, New Zealand
- Cornelius Eady, African American poet
- David Hallett, Australian
- Kevin Hart, Australian
- Sotiris Kakisis, Greek
- 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
- Deb Westbury, Australian
[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"
- August 3 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子 (born 1922), Japanese tanka poet who died at age 32 after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry (surname: Nakajo)
- 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 Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. Archived 2009-05-04.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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 c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w 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
- ^ [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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