Английская Википедия:1944 in poetry
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Year nav topic5 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time).[1][2] In the ensuing Invasion of Normandy English soldier-poet Keith Douglas is killed; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem "Walking Wounded" (1965) and is wounded; and, during lulls in the fighting, Dennis B. Wilson is writing the poem that will be published as Elegy of a Common Soldier in 2012.[3]
- October 2 – Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend and fellow Welsh poet Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up.
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
- E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry, revised edition (scholarship), Canada[4]
- Ralph Gustafson, editor, Canadian Accent, anthology[5]
- A. M. Klein:
- Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night. Toronto: Ryerson.[6] Governor General's Award 1944.
- E. J. Pratt, Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Toronto: Macmillan.[7]
- Ronald Hambleton, editor Unit of five: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P. K. Page, Raymond Souster, James Wreford, anthology, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Canada[8]
India, in English
- Harindranath Chattopadhyay:
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, To the Height ( Poetry in English ),[11]
- Humayun Kabir, Mahatma and Other Poems( 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[9]
- Fredoon Kabraji, A Minor Georgian's Swan Song ( Poetry in English ), Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Indian poet published in the United Kingdom[12]
- P. R. Kaikini, Look On Undaunted ( Poetry in English ), Bombay[13]
- H. D. Sethna, Struggling Heights ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Karnatak Publishing House[13]
- Subho Tagore:
United Kingdom
- Drummond Allison, The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43, posthumous
- W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, English poet living and publishing in the United States
- George Barker, Eros in Dogma[14]
- Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems[14]
- John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries
- Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems[14]
- Edmund Blunden, Shells by a Stream[14]
- Alex Comfort, Elegies[14]
- 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[14]
- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, contains "Burnt Norton" (first published 1936 and again 1941), "East Coker" (1940), "The Dry Salvages" (1941), "Little Gidding" (1942)[14]
- Roy Fuller, A Lost Season[14]
- W. S. Graham, The Seven Journeys[14]
- Robert Greacen, Northern Harvest and One Recent Evening, Northern Ireland poet
- J. F. Hendry, and Henry Treece, editors, The Crown and Sickle, anthology[14]
- Laurie Lee, The Sun My Monument[14]
- John Lehmann, The Sphere of Glass, and Other Poems[14]
- Louis MacNeice, Springboard[14]
- R. P. L. Mogg, For This Alone, and Other Poems
- Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason[14]
- John Pudney, Almanack of Hope[14]
- Herbert Read, A World Within a War[14]
- Lynette Roberts, Poems
- E. J. Scovell, Shadows of Chrysanthemums, and Other Poems[14]
- William Soutar, The Expectant Silence[14]
- A. P. Wavell (comp.), Other Men's Flowers, anthology
- Charles Williams, The Region of the Summer Stars[14]
United States
- Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks[15]
- Conrad Aiken, The Soldier[15]
- W. H. Auden, For the Time Being[15]
- E. E. Cummings, 1 X 1[15]
- Babette Deutsch, Take Them, Stranger[15]
- Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", The Walls Do Not Fall,[15] first part of Trilogy (1944–46) on the blitz in war-time London
- Stanley J. Kunitz, Passport to the War[15]
- Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness, Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press[16]
- William Meredith, Love Letter from an Impossible Land[15]
- Marianne Moore, Nevertheless[15]
- Kenneth Rexroth, The Phoenix and the Tortoise[15]
- Muriel Rukeyser, Beast in View
- Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems[15]
- Jesse Stuart, Album of Destiny[15]
- Mark Van Doren, Seven Sleepers[15]
- Louise Varèse, translator, Eloges and Other Poems, translated from the original French of Saint-John Perse; introduction by Archibald MacLeish, New York: Norton[17]
- Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, 1923—1943[15]
- William Carlos Williams:
- Collected Later Poems[18]
- The Wedge
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
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:
France
- Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composes au secret[19]
- Robert Desnos, Contrée[20]
- Paul Éluard, Au Rendez-vous allemand[20]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Pour les Ombres Lausanne, Switzerland: Cahiers de Poésie French poet published in Switzerland[21]
- Alphonse Métérié, Les Cantiques du Frère Michel[19]
- Saint-John Perse, French poet published in his native language while in exile in Argentina:
- Pluies, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises (republished in Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard 1945)[17]
- Quatre poèmes, 1941-1944, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises (republished as Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard 1945)[17]
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:
Gujarati
- Badarayan, Kedi[22]
- Umashankar Joshi, Prachina, a "dialogue-poem"[22]
Hindi
- Anchala Rameshvar Shukla, Lal Cunar, lyrics celebrating love, youth and revolt[9]
- Girija Kumar Mathur, Manjir, many of these poems have themes of nature and intense love[9]
- Rangeya Raghav, Ajeya Khandhar, pragativadi-movement poetry about the battle of Stalingrad, depicted to illustrate the human struggle for freedom[9]
- Shyam Narayan Pandey, Jauhar, depicting the self-sacrifice of Padmini, queen of Chittor, written in a folk style[9]
Other Indian languages
- A. N. Krishna Rao, Pragati Sila Sahitya, 15 essays in Kannada on the Pragatisila Caluvali (progressive movement) in Indian literature[9]
- Bhimaraj Bhambiru, also known as "Mangal"; Mumgha Moti, written in doha form, the poems are addressed to an individual Mangala; Rajasthani-language[9]
- Joseph Mundasseri, written in Malayalam-language:
- 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[9]
- Kshama Rao, Miralahari, Khanda Kavya poetry on Meera, the medieval Indian saint-poet; Sanskrit-language[9]
- Mahjoor, Kalam-e-Mahjoor "No. 8", Kashmiri-language ghazals and vatsan's[9]
- Mohammad Jamil Ahmad, Tazkirah-yi Sha'irat-i Urdu, literary criticism of Urdu-language women poets, with biographical information and selections from their poems[9]
- Mohammad Mujib, Insha, adab aur adib, Urdu essays in literary criticism[9]
- Prabhjot Kaur, Palkan Ohle, love poems; Punjabi-language[9]
- Shrikrishna Powale, Agniparag; Marathi-language[9]
- Va. Ramaswamy Ayyangar, Makakavi Paratiyar, Tamil biography of the Tamil poet Bharati[9]
Spanish language
- Delmira Agustini, Poesías, posthumously published (died 1914), prologue by Luisa Luisi (Montevideo, Claudio García & Co., Uruguay[23]
- Vicente Aleixandre, Sombra del paraíso ("Shadows of Paradise"); Spain[24]
- César Moro, pen name of César Quíspez Asín, Lettre d'amour, Peru[25]
- Stella Sierra, Canciones de mar y luna ("Songs of Sea and Moon"), Panama
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
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.
- Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Day and Night, Dorothy Livesay (Canada) [26]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 3 – Sandra Alcosser, American
- February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist, poet, writer and feminist
- March 9 – Ndoc Gjetja (died 2010), Albanian poet and magazine editor[27]
- March 21 – Pedro Pietri (died 2004), Puerto Rican and Nuyorican poet and playwright, co-founder of Nuyorican Poets Cafe
- April 18 – Kathy Acker (died 1997), American postmodernist experimental novelist and punk poet
- July 18 – Wayne Brown (died 2009), Caribbean (Trinidadian-born)
- July 24 – Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (died 2018), American rap poet and musician
- August 4 – Penn Kemp, Canadian poet, novelist, playwright and sound poet
- August 22 – Tom Leonard (died 2018), Scottish
- August 24 - Paulo Leminski (died 1989), Brazilian poet and translator
- August 25
- Margaret Gibson (died 1999), African-American
- Sherley Anne Williams, African-American
- August 31 – Lorenzo Thomas, American
- September 24 – Eavan Boland (died 2020), Irish
- September 25 – bpNichol, Canadian
- October 10 – Linda Rogers, Canadian poet and children's writer
- October 12 – Lewis MacAdams, American poet, journalist and activist, founder of Friends of The Los Angeles River (FoLAR) in 1985
- October 16 – Paul Durcan, Irish
- November 24 – Jules Deelder (died 2019), Dutch
- November 25 – Kathryn Stripling Byer (died 2017), American poet, teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2005–2009
- 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:
- David Constantine, English poet, translator, editor and academic
- Susan Ioannou, Canadian
- Mary Kinzie, American
- Patrick O'Connell (died 2005), Canadian
- Jergen Theobaldy, German[28]
- Tim Thorne (died 2021), Tasmanian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 7 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (born 1888), Greek poet
- January 19 – Frederick George Scott (born 1861), Canadian poet
- February 9 – Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (born 1857), English-born poet and biographer
- February 12 – Olive Custance, Lady Alfred Douglas (born 1874), English poet
- February 23 – Augusta Peaux (born 1859), Dutch poet
- March 5 – Alun Lewis (born 1915), Anglo-Welsh school poet and war poet died on active service in Burma
- March 28 – Stephen Leacock (born 1869), Canadian writer and economist
- April 4 – John Peale Bishop (born 1892), American poet and man of letters
- May 22 – William Ellery Leonard (born 1876), American poet and academic
- June 5 – (Doris) Capel Boake (born 1889), Australian writer
- June 9 – Keith Douglas (born 1920), English war poet died in World War II in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, killed by enemy mortar fire while his regiment is advancing from Bayeux and buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles
- June – Joseph Campbell (born 1879), Irish poet and lyricist
- July 3 – A. H. Reginald Buller (born 1874), 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
- September 30 – Baroness Gertrud von Puttkamer, writing as Marie-Madeleine (born 1881), German homoerotic poet, dies in a Nazi sanatorium
- October 2 or 3 – Benjamin Fondane (born 1898), Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp
- November 22 – Sadakichi Hartmann (born 1867), American art critic and poet
- November 24 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (born 1884), Japanese author, poet, essayist, translator, musician and bohemian
- December 17 – Robert Nichols (born 1893), English war poet and dramatist
- Also:
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (born 1869), African and Native American poet and journalist
- K. V. Simon (born 1883), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[29]
- David Vogel (born 1891), Hebrew poet, gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp
See also
Notes
Шаблон:Poetry of different cultures and languages Шаблон:Schools of poetry Шаблон:Lists of poets
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- ↑ 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
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ↑ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" Шаблон:Webarchive, Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- ↑ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works" Шаблон:Webarchive, at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ↑ 9,00 9,01 9,02 9,03 9,04 9,05 9,06 9,07 9,08 9,09 9,10 9,11 9,12 9,13 9,14 9,15 9,16 9,17 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, Шаблон:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), Шаблон:ISBN, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ↑ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ↑ Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p. 238, 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")
- ↑ 13,0 13,1 13,2 13,3 Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), Шаблон:ISBN, retrieved August 6, 2010
- ↑ 14,00 14,01 14,02 14,03 14,04 14,05 14,06 14,07 14,08 14,09 14,10 14,11 14,12 14,13 14,14 14,15 14,16 14,17 14,18 Шаблон:Cite book
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- ↑ 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
- ↑ 17,0 17,1 17,2 Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography"at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24.
- ↑ Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ 19,0 19,1 Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ↑ 20,0 20,1 Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Cady, Andrea, Measuring the visible: the verse and prose of Philippe Jaccottet, p 32, Editions Rodopi, 1992, retrieved via Google Books on August 20, 2009
- ↑ 22,0 22,1 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, Шаблон:ISBN, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ↑ Web page titled "Delmira Agustini" Шаблон:Webarchive at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011
- ↑ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, p 43, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, Шаблон:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
- ↑ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this edition was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 621
- ↑ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards" Шаблон:Webarchive, Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011.
- ↑ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010.
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