Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time to the novelist John Clellon Holmes
- September — The body of William Butler Yeats who died in Menton, France in 1939, is moved from its original burial place Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to Drumcliffe, County Sligo, in accordance with his last wish. The Irish Naval Service corvette L.E. Macha carried the remains. Yeats' grave is a famous attraction in Sligo.
- Di Goldene Keyt, an Israeli literary quarterly, founded
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: - Roy Daniels, Deeper into the Forest
[Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books]
- A. M. Klein, The Rocking Chair and Other Poems, winner of the Governor-General's Award
- A. J. M. Smith, editor, The Book of Canadian Poetry, anthology (see also editions of 1943, 1957)
- Richard Aldington, Complete Poems
[Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6]
- Robert Graves, The White Goddess, a "historical grammar" of poetic myth and inspiration
- A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revised in 1978
[, The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008]
- John Berryman, The Dispossessed
[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)]
- Robinson Jeffers, The Double Axe and Other Poems,
[ largely critical of U.S. policy, the book came with an extremely unconventional note from Random House that the views expressed by Jeffers were not those of the publisher; several influential literary critics disapproved of the book, with particularly scathing pieces penned by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Rexroth, who had previously commented favorably on Jeffers' work]
- * The Cantos of Ezra Pound
- Wallace Stevens, A Primitive Like an Orb, Publisher: Gotham Book Mart
[Web page titled at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.]
- * Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia
Other in English- V. N. Bhusan, The Far Ascent, Bombay: Padma Pub.; India, Indian poetry in English
[Naik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009]
- Dilip Kumar Ray and Sri Aurobindo, translators, Eyes of Light: Poems, Bombay: Nalanda, 143 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English
[Joshi, Irene, compiler, , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.]
Works 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: - Louis Aragon, Le Nouveau Creve-Coeur
[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]
- * Saint-Glinglin
[Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983]
- Saint-John Perse, Anabase, revised edition (first edition 1924)
[Web page titled at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009]
Indian subcontinentIncluding India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: - Mangalacharan Chattopadhyay, Telengana-O-Anyanya Kabita
[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]
Other languages on the Indian subcontinentOther languages- Aimé Césaire,Soleil cou coupé, Martinique author published in France
- Alexander Mezhirov, Kommunisty, vpered!, "Communists, Ahead!" poem reprinted in his second collection, New Encounters, and in many volumes, anthologies and samplers; Russia, Soviet Union
[Shrayer, Maxim, , p 879, ]An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 076560521X, ISBN 9780765605214, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
Awards and honorsBirthsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - June 29 – John Ash British poet and writer
- October 18 – Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay) née Paulette Williams, an African American playwright, performance artist, writer and poet
DeathsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - August 31 – Andrei Zhdanov, 52, Soviet government official and persecutor of poets, writers and artists; until the late 1950s, Zhdanovism, defined cultural production in the Soviet Union; reducing permissible culture to a straightforward, scientific chart, where a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value; Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that "incorrect art" was an ideological diversion
- * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (born 1911), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator
[Paniker, Ayyappa, chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009]
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