1952 in poetry

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

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
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Events

  • August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets.
  • November —
    Downing College, University of Cambridge: Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read aloud in the university, decides to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group. Five others, including Peter Redgrove, come along to the first meeting. The group meets once a week during term; it moves to London in 1955
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  • E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
  • Contact, a mimeographed poetry magazine, founded by Ramond Souster (ceases publication in 1954); Contact Press, an important publisher of Canadian poetry, is also founded (closes in 1967).[1]
  • Lines Review, a Scottish poetry magazine, is founded by Callum Macdonald in Edinburgh.

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

India, in English

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

Other

  • R. Berndt, editor, Djanggawul, anthology of Australian poetry[19]
  • Australia

Works published in other languages

France

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Hindi

Kannada

  • D. V. Gundappa, translator, Umarana Osage, translated from the English of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyatt of Omar Khayyam[7]
  • M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Nadedu Banna Dari, poems showing the transition in Indian poetry from the more idealistic Navodaya tradition to Navya poetry which is more pessimistic and uses imagery to provide structure; Kannada[7]
  • Pejavara Sadashiva Rao, Varuna, written before 1950, but differing distinctly from navodaya poetry; using original rhythm and with subject matter from the experiences of an alienated individual; including "Natyotsava", considered by some critics as the earliest navya poem in the Kannada language; published posthumously (the author died at age 26 in Italy)[7]

Other languages in India

Other languages

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths

Grave of Paul Éluard

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Gnarowsky, Michael, "Poetry in English, 1918-1960", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
  2. ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  3. ^ "Earle Birney: Published Works", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "Louis Dudek: Publications Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
  5. ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
  6. ^ "Bibliography", Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
  7. ^ , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
  8. , retrieved August 6, 2010
  9. , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
  10. ^ , retrieved August 10, 2010
  11. ^ a b [ "A. R. D. Fairburn" article] in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
  12. ^
  13. ^ [1] Joffe, Lawrence, "Nissim Ezekiel: Gifted poet nurturing English-language verse in India", obituary, The Guardian, March 9, 2004, accessed October 16, 2007
  14. ^ , retrieved via Google Books, February 14, 2009
  15. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
  16. ^ Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
  17. ^ a b c d 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)
  18. ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)"at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.
  19. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
  20. ^ a b c d e f Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
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  23. ^ Web page titled "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Bibliography", Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010
  24. ^ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf
  25. ^ "cotch Literature Festival 2003: Myron Lysenko". Scotch College, Melbourne. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
  26. ^ "Jenkins, Wendy". AustLit Database. Retrieved 2007-05-24.