1964 in poetry

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Events

  • March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is
    Beatles, published today.[1][2]
  • March 29 (Easter Day) – Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters in Trafalgar Square, London.
  • April 23 – The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare falling around this date, is celebrated throughout the year in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and the issue of commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies suggests that Shakespeare quotations should be used in advertisements. Celebrations of various kinds occur in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and elsewhere.[1] The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre, housing its library and research facilities, in Stratford-upon-Avon (England).
  • June
    • The 75th birthday of Anna Akhmatova, who was severely persecuted during the Stalin era, is celebrated around this time with special observances and the publication of new collections of her verse.[1]
    • After the murder of American civil rights activist Andrew Goodman, poet Mary Doyle Curran finds and publishes a poem he had written for her college class, "A Corollary to a Poem by A. E. Housman."[3]
  • December – Poetry Australia literary magazine founded.
  • John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, published this year, wins the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
  • Russian poet Joseph Brodsky
    is convicted of "parasitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle.
  • Among the many books of poetry published this year, Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim. The book is received with "general jubilation" from critics, according to Raymond Walters Jr., associate editor of the New York Times Book Review. "These verses [...] convinced many observers that its author was now the pre-eminent U.S. poet."[1]
  • The publication in the United Kingdom of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence in two volumes is "a major publishing event of 1964".[1]

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:

Australia

  • Geoffrey Dutton, The Literature of Australia[4]
  • Australian
    poet published in the United Kingdom
  • T. Inglis Moore, and Douglas Stewart, editors, Poetry in Australia, 2 volumes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson[5]
  • Aboriginal Australian
  • David Rowbotham, All the Room, Australian poetry prize winner
  • R. Ward, Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, anthology[4]
  • Australian poet published in the United Kingdom[1]

Canada

Anthologies in Canada

  • Poetry of Mid-Century 1940/1960, edited by Milton Wilson, included the work of 10 well-known Canadian poets:[1]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada

  • Northrop Frye, Fables of Identity, 16 essays on "various works and authors in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry"[1]
  • Roy Daniells, Milton, Mannerism and Baroque[1]

India, in English

New Zealand

  • Fleur Adcock, Eye of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[15]
  • Charles Brasch: Ambulando: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press[16]
  • Alistair Campbell
    , Wild Honey, London: Oxford University Press

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States

Other in English

Works 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:

Danish

French

Canada, in French

France

Anthologies

German

Hebrew

Italian

Norwegian

Russian

Portuguese language

Brazil

Spanish language

Latin America

Anthologies
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Latin America

Spain

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Spain

Yiddish

Other

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Other

Births

Deaths

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

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej Britannica Book of the Year 1965 (covering events of 1964), published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1965.
  2. ^ "John Lennon's In His Own Write is published". The Beatles Bible. 2022-07-13. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  3. ^ In The Massachusetts Review and The New York Times"'What Disaster . . .'". The New York Times. 1964-12-28.
  4. ^ a b 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
  5. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  6. ^ "Earle Birney: Published Works Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
  7. ^ a b c d Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  8. ^ "F. R. Scott: Publications Archived 2013-04-08 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  9. ^ Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 560, 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")
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  13. ^ Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 384, 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")
  14. ^ Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 445, 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")
  15. ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" Archived 2006-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  16. ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" Archived September 28, 2006, at the Wayback Machine at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
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  18. ^
    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
  19. ^ 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
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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)
  21. ^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
  22. ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
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  24. ^ Web page titled "Marie-Claire Blais" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
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  26. ^ a b c Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
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  28. ^ Web page titled "Rituraj" Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
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  30. ^ "Raphael Campo (1964- )". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2008-04-24.