1943 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
Years in literature:	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
Decades in poetry:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Awards and honors 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] Events

• Ottawa native Elizabeth Smart moves permanently to England.
• Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.
• Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels closes theaters and publishers in Germany

[edit] Works published

• A Choice of Kipling's Verse edited by T. S. Eliot
• Weldon Kees, The Last Man
• Dylan Thomas, New Poems

[edit] Awards and honors

• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Allen Tate appointed this year. He would serve until 1943.
• Frost Medal: Edna St. Vincent Millay

[edit] Births

• April 22 — Louise Glück, American poet
• May 11 — Michael Palmer, American poet, translator, and winner of 2006 Wallace Stevens Award.
• July 21 — Tess Gallagher, American poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright.
• September 12 — Michael Ondaatje, Canadian-Sri Lankan novelist and poet whose Booker Prize winning novel, The English Patient, was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film
• December 8 — James Tate, American poet, educator, and man of letters and a winner of the Pultizer Prize, National Book Award
• date not known:
  • Bert Almon
  • Alfred Corn
  • Emanuel di Pasquale
  • Sarah Getty
  • Maureen Harris
  • Bill Zavatsky

[edit] Deaths

• March 10 — Lawrence Binyon, 72, English poet, dramatist and art scholar
• March 13 — Stephen Vincent Benét, 44, American poet
• October 7 — Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, 63, English poet and author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness
• November 26 — Charles G. D. Roberts Canadian poet and prose writer
• date not known:
  • F. M. Cornford, English classical scholar and poet
  • Sidney A. K. Keyes, killed in Tunisia in World War II
  • Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet
  • William Soutar, leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Bedridden from 1930, he eventually contracted and died of tuberculosis.
  • Bertram Warr

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry