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1953 in poetry

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Events

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

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:

Indian subcontinent in English


Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal:
  • Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, essays on literary criticism, drawing on the author's (also published) views of art and life, (first appeared in the Arya, 1917–1920;Datta, Amaresh, et al., , Volume 2,

published by Sahitya Akademi, 1988, ISBN 8126011947, ISBN 9788126011940, retrieved via Google Books on June 17, 2009 later expanded with the author's letters on art, literature and poetry in the Centenary Library edition, Volume 9, 1971)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
  • * I Sing of Man and Other Poems, Bombay: People's Publishing HouseNaik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
  • * Spring in Winter, Delhi: Atma Ram

United Kingdom

Poets in the anthology Images of Tomorrow

John Heath-Stubbs edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers:
Dannie AbseDrummond AllisonEurasia Anderson - William BellThomas BlackburnMaurice Carpenter - Alex ComfortYorke CromptonN. K. CruikshankKeith DouglasGeorge EveryJohn FairfaxG. S. FraserJohn GibbsW. S. Graham - F. Pratt GreenJ. C. HallMichael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn JonesSidney KeyesFrancis KingJames KirkupNorman NicholsonI. R. OrtonMichael PaffardKathleen RaineAnne RidlerWalter RobertsW. R. RodgersJoseph RykwertJohn SmithMuriel SparkDerek StanfordJ. Ormond ThomasW. Price TurnerJohn WainJohn WallerVernon WatkinsGordon Wharton - Margaret WillyDavid Wright

United States

  • John Ashbery, Turandot and Other PoemsLudwig, 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)
  • W. H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955
  • *The Kind of Act ofEverett, Nicholas, at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
  • *The Immoral Proposition
  • * In Cold Hell, In Thicket, published in Origin as its eighth issue
  • * Mayan Letters, letters to the poet Robert Creeley, report on the author's research into Mayan hieroglyphs and discuss Olson's ideas on "objectism" in poetry. (criticism)
  • Ezra Pound, translator, The Translations of Ezra Pound
  • Karl Shapiro, Poems 1940-1953, New York: Random HouseM. 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
  • Gertrude Stein, Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces (1913–1927, fiction and verse

Other in English

  • Douglas Le Pan, The Net and the Sword, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  • E. J. Pratt, The Titanic, CanadaRoberts, Neil, editor, , Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009

Works published in other languages

France

  • Rene-Guy Cadou, Helene ou le regne vegetal, Volume 2 (see Volume 1 1952), published posthumously (died 1951)Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  • Jean Follain, TerritoiresAuster, 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
  • Philippe Jaccottet, L'Effraie et autres poèmes, the author's first book of poetry to appear in France; publisher: Gallimard

Indian subcontinent


Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

Kannada

  • R. S. Mugali, Kannada Sahitya Caritre, a history of Kannada literature, written in that language, up to the 19th century
  • Virasaiva Sahitya Mttu Itihasa, literary history of "Veerashaiva" literature in three volumes

Kashmiri

  • Amir Shah Kreri, Zafar Nama, a masnavi commemorating an episode of Islamic conquest and based on a Persian original; the poem became very popular in some rural areas
  • Rasul Bath ("most probably the same person known now as Rasul Pompur", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das), Ab e Hayat
  • Rasa Javidani, Tuhfa-e bahar, the Urdu-language poet's first book of Kashmiri-language poems

Malayalam

  • Ulloor Paramesvara Ayyar, Kerala Sahitya Caritram, in 1995, Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das called this book the "most comprehensive history of the Malayalam and Sanskrit literatures of Kerala"; published posthumously, in five volumes, starting this year, with the last volume coming out in 1955

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

  • * Kaviyam Jhelo
  • * Kristanu Puranatli Vinchovan
  • Ghulan Rabbani Taban, editor, Shikast-i zindan, Urdu-language poems about the independence struggle in India and other Asian countries
  • Lekhnath Poudyal, Tarun-Tapasi, a poem on contemporary affairs written mostly in the Sikharini meter; considered the magnum opus of the author, who calls it a navya kavya; Nepali
  • Nidudavolu Venkatarao, Telugu Kavula Caritra, biographical information about many Telugu poets (see also a larger work of the same nature, Daksina Desiyandhra Vangmayamu 1954)

Other languages

Awards and honors

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Births

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Deaths

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  • 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
  • September 3 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (born 1887), ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an academic field named , a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
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