1953 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Years in literature:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Decades in poetry:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Awards and honors 3.1 United Kingdom 3.2 United States 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] Events

George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found The Paris Review.

[edit] Works published

• John Ashbery, Turandot and Other Poems
• W. H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955
• Charles Causley, Survivor's Leave
• Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
• Louis MacNeice, Autumn Sequel
• Charles Olson, In Cold Hell, In Thicket, published in Origin as its eighth issue
• Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems
• John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright. editors, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950, a selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse
• R.S. Thomas, The Minister
• Melvin Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] United Kingdom

• King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur Waley

[edit] United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Marianne Moore
• National Book Award for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems: 1917-1952
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952
• Bollingen Prize: Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Frost

[edit] Births

• July 29 — Frank McGuinness, dramatist and poet
• February 27 — Brad Leithauser
• date not known:
  • Jane Hirshfield, American poet and translator
  • Peter Robinson, poet
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg, American poet

[edit] Deaths

• April 6 — Idris Davies, Welsh poet, originally writing in Cymraeg, but later writing exclusively in English.
• July 16 — Hilaire Belloc, 82, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplace
• November 9 — Dylan Thomas, 39, Welsh poet, from a cerebral incident;
• November 30 — Francis Picabia, painter, poet
• date not known:
  • Helena Jane Coleman
  • George Herbert Clarke

[edit] See also

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