1954 in poetry
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Events
- January 25 – Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio.
- February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
- Spring – Black Mountain Review.[1]
- Publication of American literary theorist William K. Wimsatt's collected essays Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry, including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley.[2]
- Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
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
- Daryl Hine, Five Poems[3]
- Irving Layton, In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press.[4]
- Irving Layton, The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press.[4][5]
- Jay Macpherson, O Earth Return[3]
- P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Canada[6]
- Raymond Souster, A Dream That Is Dying. Toronto: Contact Press[7]
- Raymond Souster, Walking Death. Toronto: Contact Press.[7]
- F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press.[8]
- A. J. M. Smith, A Sort of Ecstasy; Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press.
India, in English
- Sri Aurobindo:
- Collected Poems (Poetry in English), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram[9]
- Savitri ( Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram[10]
- R. de L. Furtado, The Centre, Hamilton, Ontario: Cromlech Press; Indian author published in Canada[11]
- Nizamat Jung, Poems (Poetry in English), edited and published by Zahir Ahmed in Hyderabad[12]
- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram[13]
- C. Raju, This Modern Age, foreword by Amarnath Jha[11]
- K. S. R. Sastry, A Vision of India, Madras: Raja Power Press[14]
United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- Scotland
- Thom Gunn, Fighting Terms, Fantasy Press
- John Heath-Stubbs, A Charm Against the Toothace
- Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived
- David Raikes (posthumous), The Poems of David Raikes
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United Kingdom[15]
- G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom[15]
- W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom[15]
- Jon Silkin, The Peaceable Kingdom, including "Death of a Son (who died in a mental hospital aged one)"
- Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishers
United States
- Léonie Adams, Poems[16]
- W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
- Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923–1953[16]
- E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923–1954[16]
- Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral[16]
- Anthony Hecht, A Summoning of Stones[16]
- Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales[16]
- Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield and Other Poems[16]
- Weldon Kees, Poems 1947–1954[16]
- Archibald MacLeish, Songs for Eve[16]
- W. S. Merwin, The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[17]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest[16]
- Marianne Moore, The Fables of La Fontaine[16]
- Howard Moss, The Toy Fair[16]
- Kenneth Patchen, The Famous Boating Party[16]
- May Swenson, Another Animal[16]
- Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section including "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), Knopf[18]
- E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner[16]
- William Carlos Williams, The Desert Music and Other Poems
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Hugh Kenner, Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook, criticism, United States
- W. C. Williams, Selected Essays, criticism, United States[19]
Other
- Martin Carter, Poems of Resistance, Guyana[20]
- Wilson Harris, Eternity to Season, Guyana[20]
- Frank Prince, Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems, South African
- Keith Sinclair, Strangers or Beasts: Poems, New Zealand
Works published in other languages
French language
Canada, in French
- Jean-Guy Pilon, Les cloîtres de l'été, Montréal: l'Hexagone[21]
France
- Louis Aragon, Les Yeux et la memoire[22]
- Jean Cocteau, Clair–obscur[23]
- René Daumal, Poésie noire, poésie blanche, posthumously published (died 1944)[23]
- Jean Follain, Appareil de la terre[23]
- Jean Grosjean, Fils de l'homme[23]
- Henri Michaux, Face au verrous[22]
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Hindi
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhan[24]
- Namvar Singh, Chayavad, literary criticism that offers a radically new interpretation of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry; shows the social foundations of Hindi romanticism and its ties to the progressive movement that followed it[24]
- Premchand, Sahitya Ka Uddesya, literary essays; published posthumously[24]
Malayalam
- P. K. Paramesvaran Nair, Adhunika Sahitya Caritram, history of Malayalam literature (later translated into English and published by Sahitya Akademi in 1967 under the title History of Malayalam Literature)[24]
- P. Kunjiraman Nair, Kaliyacchan, poems reflecting traditional ways of life in Kerala[24]
- Sreedhara Menon, Kunnimenikal[24]
- Sukumar Azhikode, Asante Sitakavyam, critical assessment of Kumaran Asan's Cintavishtayaya[24]
Urdu
- Gian Chand Jain, Urdu ki nasri dastanen, literary criticism on classical Urdu fiction ("dastan"), written in that language[24]
- Jigar Brelvi, Payam-i Savitri, a narrative poem on Savitri, a figure from Hindu mythology; Urdu[24]
- Masood Husain Khan, Urdu zaban aur adab, critical study on the Urdu language and literature[24]
Other languages of the Indian subcontinent
- Sindhi[24]
- Gujarati[24]
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Cendemaddale, Kannada[24]
- Punjabi[24]
- Kashmiri[24]
- Dogri poetry praising Dograland, Dogra people and the Dogri language[24]
- Nepali[24]
- Telugu, (surname: Madhunapantula)[24]
- Oriya[24]
- Sindhi[24]
- Telugu[24]
Other languages
- Simin Behbahani, Ja-ye Pa ("Footprint"), Persia
- Haim Gouri, Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[27]
- Sorley MacLean, Hallaig, Scottish Gaelic (in Gairm 8)[28]
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, La meglio gioventù, Friulian language published in Italy
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, Le acque del sabato, Italy
- Wisława Szymborska, Pytania zadawane sobie ("Questioning Yourself"), Poland
- Croatian
Awards and honors
- National Book Award for Poetry: Conrad Aiken, Collected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: The Waking
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson
- Bollingen Prize: W. H. Auden
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louise Townsend Nicholl and Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Metal and the Flower, P. K. Page[29]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 – Ian Duhig, English poet
- February 13 – Vijay Seshadri, Indian poet, essayist and literary critic who emigrates to the United States c. 1959
- February 21 – Francisco X. Alarcón (died 2016), Mexican-American poet
- February 27 – Thylias Moss, African-American poet, writer and playwright
- March 4 – Russian samizdatpoet
- March 26 – Australian
- April 17 – Erín Moure, Canadian
- May 5 – Hamid Ismailov, Uzbek writer
- May 25 – Russianpoet, critic and translator who emigrates to the United States in 1991
- July 5 – Australian
- July 19 – Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canadian short story writer, poet and photographer
- July 31 – Kim Addonizio, American poet and novelist
- August 6 – Lorna Dee Cervantes, American poet
- August 8 – Yu Jian, China[30]
- August 15 – Mary Jo Salter, American
- October 15 – Australian
- November 10 – Joy Goswami, Indian Bengali poet (a man)
- December 5 – Lynda Hull, American
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American poet and author
- December 27 – David Baker, American
- Also:
- Catherine Anderson (poet), American
- Robert Boates, Canadian
- Brother Resistance, Trinidadian (died 2021)
- Janet Charman, New Zealand
- Imtiaz Dharker, Pakistan-born British
- Cornelius Eady, African American
- Australian
- Greek
- Jan Heller Levi, American
- Ahmed Matar, Iraqi poet
- Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jordanian-Palestinian poet and novelist
- Luis J. Rodriguez, American poet, novelist, journalist, critic and columnist
- Stephen Sartarelli, poet and translator
- Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Leonard Bacon, 66 (born 1887), American poet
- February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim, 62 (born 1892), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians", murdered
- March 28 – Francis Brett Young, 73 (born 1884), English novelist and poet
- August 3 – poet who dies young after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry (surname: Nakajo)
- August 18 – Meiji period haiku poet; Masaoka Shiki's pupil.
- October 22
- Jibanananda Das (born 1899), Bengali poet
- Brazilianpoet and polemicist
See also
Notes
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ISBN 9780393974294.
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b "Irving Layton: Publications Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ Irving Layton: Publications Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P. K. Page, Published Works" Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ^ a b "Notes on Life and Works Archived 2011-08-17 at the Wayback Machine," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ "F.R. Scott: Publications Archived 2013-04-08 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ISBN 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
- ISBN 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
- ^ Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
- ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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)
- ^ Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.
- ^ Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 66
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
- ^ ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- ^ a b c d Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "José Santos Chocano" Archived August 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 - ^ "Poetry in Periodicals and Anthologies". Sorley MacLean. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
- ^ "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
- ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian" Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Pretty, Ron (9 April 2018). "Deb Westbury, poet of the senses and Struggle Street". Retrieved 27 May 2018.
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