1946 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- W. H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen
- Ezra Pound brought back to the United States on treason charges, but found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remained for 12 years (to 1958).
- Upon learning about Isaiah Berlin's visit to Russian poet Anna Akhmatova this year, Stalin's associate Andrei Zhdanov, with the approval of the Soviet Central Committee, issued the "Zhdanov decree" denouncing her as a "half harlot, half nun", and had her poems banned from publication. The 1946 resolution of the Central Committee was directed against two literary magazines, Zvezda and Leningrad, which had published supposedly apolitical, "bourgeois", individualistic works of Akhmatova and the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko. In time Akhmatova's son would spend his youth in Stalinist gulags, and she would resort to publishing several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release.
- Takashi Matsumoto founds a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in Japan
Macspaunday
Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco, first published this year, made up the name "MacSpaunday" to designate a composite figure made up of these four poets:
Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period, imagined that the four were a group of like-minded poets, although they shared little but left-wing views in the broadest sense of the word.
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:
- Anilbaran, Songs from the Soul ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Amiya Library[5]
- Harindranath Chattopadhyaya:
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, East Beams ( Poetry in English ),[7]
- P. R. Kaikini, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), Bombay[8]
- H.G. Rawlinson, editor, Garland of Indian Poetry ( Poetry in English ), London: Royal India Society; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom[9]
- S. H. Vatsyayana, Prison Days and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Benares: Indian Publishers[8]
- Rupert Brooke, The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke, comprising the contents of Collected Poems of 1928 and 26 additional poems; published posthumously[12]
- Roy Campbell, Talking Bronco, South African native living in and published in the United Kingdom
- Walter De la Mare, The Traveller[12]
- Lawrence Durrell Cities, Plains and People[12]
- Robert Graves, Poems 1938–1945[12]
- Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom[9]
- Maurice Lindsay, editor, Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945 (Faber and Faber)
- Norman MacCaig, The Inward Eye[12]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Poems of the East-West Synthesis[12]
- Kathleen Raine, Living in Time[12]
- Herbert Read, Collected Poems[12]
- Henry Reed, A Map of Verona,[12] including "Naming of Parts"
- Vita Sackville-West, The Garden[12]
- Sydney Goodsir Smith, The Devil's Waltz[12]
- Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances,[12] including "Fern Hill" and "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
- R. S. Thomas, The Stones of the Fields[12]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, The Last Circle[13] (Houghton Mifflin)
- Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, criticism
- Owen Dodson, Powerful Long Ladder[13]
- H.D., "The Flowering of the Rod",[13] the final part of Trilogy, a three-part poem on the experience of the blitz in wartime London
- John Gould Fletcher, The Burning Mountain[13]
- Denise Levertov, The Double Image[13]
- Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle, New York: Harcourt, Brace[14]
- Phyllis McGinley, Stones from a Glass House[13]
- James Merrill, The Black Swan (won Glascock Prize)
- Josephine Miles, Local Measures[13]
- Howard Moss, The Wound and the Weather[13]
- Lorine Niedecker, New Goose, her first poetry collection
- Kenneth Patchen, Sleepers Awake[13]
- Edouard Roditi, translator, Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares, translated from the original French of André Breton; publisher: View[15]
- Mark Van Doren, The Country New Year[13]
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book I[13]
- Reed Whittemore, Heroes & Heroines
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
- Yves Bonnefoy, Traité du pianiste
- Jean Cayrol, Poems de la nuit et du brouillard[16]
- Aimé Césaire, Les armes miraculeuses, Martinique poet published in France;[15] Paris: Gallimard
- René Char, Feuillets d'Hypnos[15]
- Paul Éluard, Le dur désir de durer[15]
- Léon-Paul Fargue, Méandres[15]
- Jean Hervé, Jour, winner of the Prix Apollinaire[16]
- Francis Jammes, La Grâce[17]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, La Vierge de Paris poems from The Resistance[16]
- Alphonse Métérié, Vétiver[16]
- Jacques Prévert, Paroles[15]
- Saint-John Perse:
- Exil, suivi de Poème à l'etrangère, Pluies, Neiges[15]
- Vents, Paris: Gallimard[18]
- Philippe Soupault, L'Arme secrète[15]
- Jules Supervielle, 1939–1945[15]
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Terre sur Terre[15]
Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Nas aur Nirman, poems of the Pragativadi school[19]
- Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Kuruksetra, narrative poem based on the Santi Parva of the Mahabharata[19]
- Rangeya Raghava, Pighlate Patthar, poems with a strong Marxist influence[19]
- Mirza Arif, Laila Wa Mustafa, a masnavi[19]
- Shamas-ud Din Kafoor, Nendre Lotuyae Yoot Koetah, a vatsun poem on the poverty of Kashmiri peasants; the work first appeared in Hamdard, a weekly periodical, and was later included in Payame Kafoor[19]
- Abdul Ahad Azad, Shikwa-e-Iblis, a complaint about unquestioning social conformity[19]
- P. S. Subrahmaniya Shastri, Vatamoli Nul Varalaru, literary history of Sanskrit literature, written in Tamil[19]
- R. P. Sethu Pillai, Kiristuvat Tamilttontar, Tamil-language literary history on the contributions of Christian scholars, including Beschi, Pope, Caldwell and Vitanayakam Pillai to that language's literature and culture[19]
- V. R. M. Chettiyar, Nanku Kavimanikal, Tamil biographical and critical study of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore and the Tamil poet Kambar (poet),[19] also known as "Kampan" (1180–1250)
Other Indian languages
- Akhtarul Imam, Tarik Sayyara; Urdu-language[19]
- Amrita Pritan, Pathar Gite; Punjabi-language[19]
- Bayabhav, also known as Kashinath Shridhar Naik, Sadeavelim Fulam, Konkani[19]
- Buddhadeb Basu, Kaler Putul, an essay of literary criticism in Bengali of poets and their work after Rabindranath Tagore[19]
- Chaganti Seshaiah, Andhra Kavi Tarangini, first volume in a 10-volume literary history written in the Telugu language (the last volume came out in 1953)[19]
- Chandrasinha, Sip, nine works of poetic prose in Rajasthani[19]
- Dinu Bhai Pant, Mangu Di Chabila, Dogri narrative poem on bonded laborers exploited by village money lenders[19]
- E. M. S. Nampudirippadu, Purogamana Sahityam an essay in Malayalam by a leader of the Marxist Communist Party on the idea of progressive literature; influential with many young authors[19]
- Ishar Singh Ishar, Rangila Bhaia, humorous, Punjabi-language poems featuring Bhaia, a humorous character created by the poet for this and other works[19]
- Jandhyala Papayya Sastri, Vijaya Sri, popular kavya in classical meter about the victory of Arjuna; an allegory of the Indian independence movement; Telugu[19]
- Laksmiprasad Devkota, Sulocana, Nepali-language epic using more than a dozen Sanskrit meters; the poem, written in response to a challenge to prove the author's credentials as an epic poet, does not defy the norms of epics in Sanskrit poetics; based on a social theme[19]
- Mayadhar Mansinha, Sadhabajhia, Oriya-language, romantic poetry[19]
- Sundaram, Arvacin Kavita, literary history in Gujarati of that language's poetry from 1845 to 1945[19]
Other languages
- Odysseus Elytis, An Heroic And Funeral Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania, Greek
- G. Groll, editor, De profundis, anthology of non-Nazi texts, Germany[20]
Awards and honors
Awards and honors in the United States
Awards and honors elsewhere
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 8 – Gert Jonke (died 2009), Austrian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and poet
- August 5 – Ron Silliman, American
- October 28 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian
- December 20 – Andrei Codrescu, a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for NPR
- December 30 – Patti Smith, American poet and musician
- Also:
- Alan Brunton (died 2002), New Zealand poet and scriptwriter[22]
- Amulya Barua (born 1922), Assamese poet first published posthumously in 1964, killed in communal violence
- Larry Levis (died 1996), American
- Tom Pickard, English poet, radio broadcaster, film maker and an initiator of the British Poetry Revival movement
- Peter Reading, English poet
- Joachim Sartorius, German[23]
- Maura Stanton, American
- Marilyn Nelson Waniek, American
- Dale Zieroth, Canada
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 – Countee Cullen, 42 (born 1903), African American poet
- March 1 – Adriana Porter, 89, Wiccan poet
- May 25 – Ernest Rhys, 87, British poet, author, novelist, essayist best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
- July 8 – Orrick Glenday Johns, 59, American poet and playwright
- July 27 – Gertrude Stein, 73 (born 1874, poet and dramatist, of cancer
See also
Notes
- ^ "Louis Dudek: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ a b Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ a b c d Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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