1944 in poetry
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[edit] Events
[edit] 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:
[edit] Canada
- E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry, revised edition (scholarship), Canada[1]
- Ralph Gustafson, editor, Canadian Accent, anthology[2]
- A. M. Klein:
- Ronald Hambleton, editor Unit of five: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P. K. Page, Raymond Souster, James Wreford, anthology, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Canada[3]
[edit] India in English
- Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Blood of Stones, Indian poetry in English, including "On the Pavement of Calcutta", a realistic description of suffering in the Bengal famine of 1943[4]
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, To the Height; India, Indian poetry in English[5]
- Humayun Kabir, Mahatma and Other Poems, Indian poetry in English; except for the title poem "Mahatama", inspired by the Quit India Movement, and "Rabindranath Tagore", the other poems are reprinted from the author's Poems 1932[4]
[edit] United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, English poet living and publishing in the United States
- George Barker, Eros in Dogma[6]
- Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems[6]
- Sir John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries
- Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems[6]
- Edmund Blunden, Shells by a Stream[6]
- Alex Comfort (poet), Elegies[6]
- Crown and Sickle poetry anthology in Britain, featuring poets in the New Apocalyptics movement
- Walter De la Mare, Collected Rhymes and Verses
- Patric Dickinson, The Seven Days of Jericho[6]
- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, contains "Burnt Norton" (first published 1936 and again 1941), "East Coker" (1940), "The Dry Salvages" (1941), "Little Gidding" (1942)[6]
- Roy Fuller, A Lost Season[6]
- W. S. Graham, The Seven Journeys[6]
- J. F. Hendry, and Henry Treece, editors, The Crown and Sickle, anthology[6]
- Laurie Lee, The Sun My Monument[6]
- John Lehmann, The Sphere of Glass, and Other Poems[6]
- Louis MacNeice, Springboard[6]
- Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason[6]
- John Pudney, Almanack of Hope[6]
- Herbert Read, A World Within a War[6]
- E. J. Scovell, Shadows of Chrysanthemums, and Other Poems[6]
- William Soutar, The Expectant Silence[6]
- Charles Williams, The Region of the Summer Stars[6]
[edit] United States
- Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks[7]
- Conrad Aiken, The Soldier[7]
- W. H. Auden, For the Time Being[7]
- E. E. Cummings, 1 X 1[7]
- Babette Deutsch, Take Them, Stranger[7]
- Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", The Walls Do Not Fall,[7] first part of Trilogy (1944–46) on the blitz in war-time London
- Stanley J. Kunitz, Passport to the War[7]
- Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness, Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press[8]
- William Meredith, Love Letter from an Impossible Land[7]
- Marianne Moore, Nevertheless[7]
- Kenneth Rexroth, The Phoenix and the Tortoise[7]
- Muriel Rukeyser, Beast in View
- Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems[7]
- Jesse Stuart, Album of Destiny[7]
- Mark Van Doren, Seven Sleepers[7]
- Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, 1923—1943[7]
- William Carlos Williams:
- Collected Later Poems[9]
- The Wedge
[edit] Other in English
- James K. Baxter, Beyond the Palisade, his first volume of poetry, New Zealand
- Seaforth Mackenzie, The Moonlit Doorway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia
- Kenneth Slessor, One Hundred Poems, 1919-1939, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Australia
[edit] 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:
[edit] 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:
[edit] Hindi
- Anchala Rameshvar Shukla, Lal Cunar, lyrics celebrating love, youth and revolt[4]
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Manjir, many of these poems have themes of nature and intense love[4]
- Rangeya Raghav, Ajeya Khandhar, pragativadi-movement poetry about the battle of Stalingrad, depicted to illustrate the human struggle for freedom[4]
- Shyam Narayan Pandey, Jauhar, depicting the self-sacrifice of Padmini, queen of Cittor, written in a folk style[4]
[edit] Other Indian languages
- Badarayan, Kedi, Indian, writing in Gujarati[10]
- A. N. Krishna Rao, Pragati Sila Sahitya, 15 essays in Kannada on the Pragatisila Caluvali (progressive movement) in Indian literature[4]
- Bhimaraj Bhambiru, also known as "Mangal"; Mumgha Moti, written in doha form, the poems are addressed to an individual Mangala; Rajasthani[4]
- Mahjoor, Kalam-e-Mahjoor "No. 8", Kashmiri-language ghazals and vatsan's[4]
- Joseph Mundasseri, written in Malayalam:
- Kshama Rao, Miralahari, Khanda Kavya poetry on Meera, the medieval Indian saint-poet; Sanskrit[4]
- K. V. Puttappa, also known as "Kuvempu", Kogile Mattu Soviet Russia, verses with a focus on the common man, which was pioneering for Kannada poetry of the time; a recurring theme in the poems is rejection of institutionalized religion[4]
- Mohammad Jamil Ahmad, Tazkirah-yi Sha'irat-i Urdu, literary criticism of Urdu-language women poets, with biographical information and selections from their poems[4]
- Mohammad Mujib, Insha, adab aur adib, Urdu essays in literary criticism[4]
- Prabhjot Kaur, Palkan Ohle, love poems, Punjabi[4]
- Umashankar Joshi, Prachina, a "dialogue-poem"; Indian, writing in Gujarati[10]
- Va. Ramaswamy Ayyangar, Makakavi Paratiyar, Tamil biography of the Tamil poet Bharati[4]
[edit] Other languages
- Nathan Alterman, Plague Poems, Israel
- Nizar Qabbani, The Brunette Told Me, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
- Giorgos Seferis, Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙ ("Deck Diary II"), Greece
[edit] Awards and honors
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Penn Warren appointed this year. He would serve until 1945.
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist, poet, writer and feminist
- February 19 – Jeffrey Wainwright, English poet and academic
- March 21 – Pedro Pietri, (died in 2004) a Puerto Rican and Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
- August 25 – Margaret Gibson (poet) (died 1999), African-American
- August 31 – Lorenzo Thomas, American
- September 24 – Eavan Boland, Irish
- September 25 – bpNichol, Canadian
- October 10 – Linda Rogers, Canadian poet and children's writer
- December 3 – Craig Raine, English poet and critic
- December 10 – Carol Rumens, English poet, writer, literary editor and academic
- December 18 – Michael Davidson, American
- Also:
- Sandra Alcosser, American
- David Constantine, British poet, translator, editor and academic
- John Donlan, Canadian and editor
- Paul Duncan
- William Hathaway (poet), American
- Susan Ioannou, Canadian
- Penn Kemp, Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and sound poet
- Mary Kinzie, American
- Robert C. Morgan, American art critic, art historian, curator, poet and artist
- John Reibetanz
- Jergen Theobaldy, German[11]
- Sherley Anne Williams, American
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 7 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek
- March 5 – Alun Lewis, Anglo-Welsh school poet and war poet killed in Burma
- March 28 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian writer and economist
- April 4 – John Peale Bishop, American poet and man of letters
- May 22 – William Ellery Leonard (born 1876), American poet and academic
- June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet died in the D-Day invasion of Normandy; he was killed by enemy mortar fire while his regiment was advancing from Bayeux and is buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles.
- July 3 – A. H. Reginald Buller, a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
- July 18 – Thomas Sturge Moore (born 1870), English poet, author and artist
- September 26 – Eunice Tietjens (born 1884), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
- November 22 – Sadakichi Hartmann (born 1867), American
- November 24 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (born 1884), Japanese author, poet, essayist, translator, musician and bohemian
- Also:
- Olivia Bush
- Joseph Campbell, Irish poet and lyricist
- Olive Custance, poet
- Keith Castellain Douglas, killed in World War II at Normandy;
- Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
- Frederick George Scott
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "History and Criticism" section, p 164
- ^ a b c Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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
- ^ 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 c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s 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 l m n 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
- ^ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0393093573
- ^ a b Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (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
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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