Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- 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.
MacspaundayRoy 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 EnglishListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Robert Finch, Poems
[Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books]
- P. K. Page, As Ten As Twenty
[Roberts, Neil, editor, , Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009]
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, East Beams
[Naik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009]
- 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
[Joshi, Irene, compiler, , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.]
- J. C. Reid, Creative Writing in New Zealand, with two chapters on poetry, scholarship, New Zealand
[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]
- Rupert Brooke, The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke, comprising the contents of Collected Poems of 1928 and 26 additional poems; published posthumously
[Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6]
- 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
- Henry Reed, A Map of Verona,
[ including "Naming of Parts"]
- Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances,
[ including "Fern Hill" and "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"]
- Stephen Vincent Benet, The Last Circle
[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)] (Houghton Mifflin)
- Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, criticism
- H.D., "The Flowering of the Rod",
[ the final part of Trilogy, a three-part poem on the experience of the blitz in wartime London]
- Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle, New York: Harcourt, Brace
[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]
Other in EnglishWorks published in other languagesListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Jean Cayrol, Poems de la nuit et du brouillard
[Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983]
- Aimé Césaire, Les armes miraculeuses, Martinique poet published in France
[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]
- René Char, Feuillets d'Hypnos
[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]
- Francis Jammes, La Grâce
[Web page titled , at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.]
- * Exil, suivi de Poème à l'etrangère, Pluies, Neiges
- * Vents, Paris: Gallimard
[Web page titled at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24.]
Indian subcontinentIncluding 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
[Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, , 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008]
- V. K. Gokak, Indina Kannada Kavyada Gottugurialu, critical survey of modern poetry in Kannada
- 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
- Abdul Ahad Azad, Shikwa-e-Iblis, a complaint about unquestioning social conformity
Other Indian languages- 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)
- Dinu Bhai Pant, Mangu Di Chabila, Dogri narrative poem on bonded laborers exploited by village money lenders
- 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
- Ishar Singh Ishar, Rangila Bhaia, humorous, Punjabi-language poems featuring Bhaia, a humorous character created by the poet for this and other works
- 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
- 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
- Sundaram, Arvacin Kavita, literary history in Gujarati of that language's poetry from 1845 to 1945
Other languages- G. Groll, editor, De profundis, anthology of non-Nazi texts, Germany
[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]
Awards and honorsBirthsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: DeathsBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: See also
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