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1956 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

  • September 6 — The New York Times sent poet Richard Eberhart to San Francisco to report on the poetry scene there. Eberhart's resulting article, published this day in the New York Times Book Review, was titled "West Coast Rhythms" and helped call national attention to Howl as "the most remarkable poem of the young group" of poets who were becoming known as the spokesmen of the Beat generation
  • Northern Review, founded in 1945 from the merger of two small Canadian literary magazines, Preview and First Statement, publishes its last issue.Roberts, Neil, editor, , Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
  • Tamarack Review founded by Robert Weaver in CanadaGnarowsky, Michael, , article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009

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:

Canada

  • Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies, CanadaRoberts, Neil, editor, , Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
  • R. A. D. Ford, A Window on the NorthGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books

New Zealand

  • D'Arcy Cresswell, The Voyage of the Hurunui : a Ballad, Christchurch: Caxton Press
  • Charles Doyle, A Splinter of GlassPreminger, 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837 in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008

United Kingdom

  • David Gascoyne, Night ThoughtsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  • John Holloway, The Minute and Longer Poems, Hessle, East Yorkshire: Marvell Press

United States

  • John Ashbery, Some TreesLudwig, 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)
  • John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, New York: Farrar, Straus & CudahyM. 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
  • W. S. Merwin, Green With Beasts, Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Kenneth Rexroth (translator), 30 Spanish Poems of Love and Exile and (translator), 100 Poems from the Chinese
  • Richard Wilbur, Things of This World: Poems, New York: Harcourt, Brace

Works published in other languages

Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

France

  • Louis Aragon, Le Roman inachevéAuster, 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

Germany

  • W. Höllerer, editor, Transit, anthology, GermanPreminger, 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
  • Rupert Hirschenauer and Albrecht Weber, editors, Wege zum Gedicht, 2 volumes (second volume, on the ballad, in 1963), 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, "Criticism in German" section, p 474, scholarship

Indian subcontinent


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

Dogri

  • Dinu Bhai Pant, Dadi Te MamDas, 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
  • Tara Smail Puri, Fauji Pimsanar, a long poem on the plight of a military veteran

Gujarati

  • Dhirubhai Thaker, Arvacin Gujarati Shaityani Vikasrekha, a Gujarati-language history of that language's literature from 1850 to the post-independence period
  • Suresh Joshi, Upjati, Indian, Gujarati languageMohan, Sarala Jag, (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008

Kannada

  • Channaveera Kanavi, Dipadhari, with some lyrics in the navodaya style, others in the navya; poetry known as Samanvaya Kavya in Kannada poetry because it attempted to synthesize the two types of subject matter: both the beauty of nature, folk traditions, mysticism, and humanism of the one form and the stark contemporary realism of the other
  • Yarmunja Ramachandra, Vidaya, the author's only book of poems, published posthumously after his death at age 22

Malayalam

  • O. N. V. Kurup, Dahikkunna Panapatram, Malayalam, the author's earliest poems, mostly lyrics reflecting revolutionary idealism

Urdu

  • Nadim, "Subuhdam Yets Chhu Paratshyon Gashi-Tarukh", the first sonnet in the Kashmiri language; published in the Urdu publication Tameer

Other Indian languages

Other languages

  • Mario Benedetti, Poemas de oficina ("Office Poems"), UruguayWeb page titled (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30.

Awards and honors

Births

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Deaths

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  • January 31 – A. A. Milne, 74, English author of children's books and children's poetry
  • November 21 – Aizu Yaichi (会津 八一) (born 1881), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (Surname: Aizu)

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