1947 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 |
| Years in literature: | 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 |
| 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: | 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 |
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[edit] Events
- Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
- Landfall literary magazine is founded in New Zealand (now that country's oldest literary journal)
[edit] Works published
- Kingsley Amis, Bright November
- W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety"
- Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
- Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
- Paul Hiebert, Sara Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan"
- Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians (his second book of poetry)
- Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
- Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
- Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law
- Giorgos Seferis, Κίχλη (The Thrush)
- John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadian's: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology[1]
- Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication
- Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock
- Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy
[edit] Awards and honors
- Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Lowell appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely Torrence
[edit] Births
- January 2 — Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changed her name
- April 13 — Rae Armantrout, American poet
- May 23 — Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator (died 1995)
- July 25 — Leslie Scalapino, American poet
- August 8 — Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activist
- November 13 — John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
- December 26 — Liz Lochhead Scottish poet and dramatist
- date not known:
- Cheryl Clarke
- Yusef Komunyakaa — American poet, academic and recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Al Moritz
- Molly Peacock — American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
- Charlie Smith
- Rosemary Sullivan — Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist
[edit] Deaths
- December 19 — Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian poet and writer
- date not known:
- Anna Wickham, British poet
- Richard Le Gallienne, English writer and poet
[edit] See also
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