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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

  • Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

     and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so. The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.-Early life:...

    , in the poem, The Heirs of Stalin, wrote that more guards should be placed at Stalin's tomb, "lest Stalin rise again, and with Stalin the past". He also condemns anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. His poetry readings attracted hundreds and thousands of enthusiastic young people, to the point where police were often summoned to preserve order and disperse the crowds long after midnight. Other young poets also went beyond the previous limits of Soviet censorship: Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky
    Robert Rozhdestvensky
    Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet who in the broke with the Social Realism in 1950s–1960s and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer poetry in the Soviet Union.-Life:Robert Rozhdestvensky...

    , and Bella Akhmadulina (who had divorced Yevtushenko). Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the literary monthly New World, supported many of the young writers. By the end of the year, the young writers had gained power in the official writers' unions which controlled much of the literary culture of the Soviet Union, and some publications which had attacked them were printing their work.
  • American poet Robert Frost
    Robert Frost
    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...

     visits Russian poet Anna Akhmatova
    Anna Akhmatova
    Anna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...

     in her dacha
  • Ted Hughes
    Ted Hughes
    Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...

     and Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...

     separate
  • Michigan Quarterly Review
    Michigan Quarterly Review
    The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.The quarterly publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to...

     is founded.
  • October — Dame Edith Sitwell
    Edith Sitwell
    Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was a British poet and critic.-Background:Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping...

     read from her poetry at a concert at Royal Festival Hall
    Royal Festival Hall
    The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...

     in London given in honor of her 75th birthday.
  • Composer Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten
    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...

    's War Requiem, included settings for Wilfred Owen's
    Wilfred Owen
    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War...

     poems

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
Canadian literature
Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...

  • Earle Birney
    Earle Birney
    Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...

    , Ice Cod Bell or Stone. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
  • Wilson MacDonald
    Wilson MacDonald
    Wilson Pugsley MacDonald was a popular Canadian poet who "was known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities" as a reader of his poetry....

    , *Pugwash. Toronto: Pine Tree Publishing.
  • John Newlove
    John Newlove
    John Newlove was a Canadian poet who was considered to be one of the dominant voices of prairie poetry, though he lived most of his adult life in British Columbia and Ontario.-Life:...

    , The Things which Are
  • Alfred Purdy, Poems for All the Annettes
  • James Reaney
    James Reaney
    James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...

    , Twelve Letters to a Small Town. Governor General's Award 1962
    1962 Governor General's Awards
    Each winner of the 1962 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.-English Language:*Fiction: Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise....

    .
  • A. J. M. Smith
    A. J. M. Smith
    Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He "was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets" -- the Montreal Group, which included Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, and F.R...

    , Collected Poems
  • F.R. Scott, St-Denys Garneau & Anne Hebert: Translations/Traductions. Translated by F. R. Scott. Vancouver: Klanak Press.
  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , A Local Pride. Toronto: Contact Press.
  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , Place of Meeting
  • Wilfred Watson
    Wilfred Watson
    Wilfred Watson was professor emeritus of English at Canada's University of Alberta for many years. He was also an experimental Canadian poet and dramatist, whose innovative plays had a considerable influence in the 1960s...

    , The Sea is Also a Garden

Anthologies

  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , editor, Love Where the Nights Are Long
  • Editors of the Tamarack Review, a selection from its past issues, The First Five Years, including poetry

Biography, criticism and scholarship

  • John Glassco
    John Glassco
    John Glassco was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist. "Glassco will be remembered for his brilliant autobiography, his elegant, classical poems, and for his translations." He is also remembered by some for his pornography.-Life:Born in Montreal to a well-off merchant family, John Glassco was...

    , The Journal of Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
    Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
    Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was a French Canadian poet and painter, who "was posthumously hailed as a herald of the Quebec literary renaissance of the 1950s." He has been called Quebec's "first truly modern poet."-Life:...

    (translation)
  • Canadian critics and poets, Masks of Poetry

India
Indian poetry
Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

, in English
Indian Poetry in English
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

  • Adil Jussawalla, Land’s End ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

     , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    .
  • Lawrence Bantleman, Graffiti ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

     , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    .
  • M. P. Bhaskaran, The Dancer and the Ring ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop
    Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...

     , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    .

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Dannie Abse
    Dannie Abse
    Daniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse , is a Welsh poet.-Early years:Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse...

    , Poems, Golders Green, including "The Abandoned", London: Hutchinson
  • George Barker
    George Barker (poet)
    George Granville Barker was an English poet and author.-Life and work:Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, elder brother of Kit Barker [painter] George Barker was raised by his Irish mother and English father in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school...

    , The View From a Blind I
  • Edmund Blunden
    Edmund Blunden
    Edmund Charles Blunden, MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong...

    , A Hong Kong House
  • Ronald Bottrall
    Ronald Bottrall
    Ronald Bottrall was a Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis and Martin Seymour-Smith.Education: Redruth Grammar School; Pembroke College, Cambridge.- Career :...

    , Collected Poems
  • Tony Connor
    Tony Connor
    Tony Connor is a British poet and playwright.After leaving school at fourteen, Connor served in the Royal Army as a tank gunner, and later worked as a textile designer and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s...

    , With Love Somehow, London: Oxford University Press
  • Patrick Creagh, A Row of Pharaohs
  • Allen Curnow
    Allen Curnow
    Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...

    , A Small Room with Large Windows (Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

    ), selected poems by this New Zealand
    New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
  • C. Day Lewis, The Gate, including "Not Proven" and "The Disabused"
  • T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot
    Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

    , Collected Poems 1909–1962
  • D. J. Enright
    D. J. Enright
    Dennis Joseph Enright was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic, and general man of letters.-Life:He was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge...

    , Addictions, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
  • Roy Fuller
    Roy Fuller
    Roy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.Poems was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s...

    , Collected Poems 1936-1961, London: André Deutsch
  • Robert Graves
    Robert Graves
    Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...

    , New Poems 1962
  • Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...

    , Fighting Terms, a revision of a collection from the 1950s including "My Sad Captains"
  • Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...

     and Ted Hughes
    Ted Hughes
    Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...

    , Selected poems by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Faber
  • Richard Kell
    Richard Kell
    Richard Kell is an English footballer playing as a midfielder. He has broken his leg twice in his career....

    , Control Tower
  • Thomas Kinsella
    Thomas Kinsella
    Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...

    , Downstream, Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
  • Peter Levi
    Peter Levi
    Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, , Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.-Early life and education:Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex of parents with Mediterranean...

    , Water, Rock and Sand
  • Norman MacCaig
    Norman MacCaig
    Norman MacCaig was a Scottish poet. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity.-Life:...

    , A Round of Applause, London: Chatto and Windus with Hogarth Press
  • Christopher Middleton
    Christopher Middleton (poet)
    Christopher Middleton is a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.-Life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. He became Professor of Germanic...

    , Torse 3
  • Vernon Scannell
    Vernon Scannell
    Vernon Scannell was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport.-Personal life:Vernon Scannell was born in 1922 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire...

    , A Sense of Danger
  • Dame Edith Sitwell
    Edith Sitwell
    Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was a British poet and critic.-Background:Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping...

    , The Outcasts
  • Stevie Smith
    Stevie Smith
    Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.-Life:Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, was the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Contemporary Women Poets...

    , Selected Poems
  • Jon Stallworthy
    Jon Stallworthy
    Jon Stallworthy FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic....

    , Out of Bounds
  • R. S. Thomas
    R. S. Thomas
    Ronald Stuart Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales...

    , The Bread of Truth
  • Anthony Thwaite
    Anthony Thwaite
    Anthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writer Ann Thwaite. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up in Yorkshire and currently lives in Norfolk....

    , The Owl in the Tree
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
    J. R. R. Tolkien
    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

    , The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Other Verses from the 'Red Book
  • Charles Tomlinson
    Charles Tomlinson
    Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE is a British poet and translator, and also an academic and artist. He was born and raised in Penkhull in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.-Life:...

    ,
    A Peopled Landscape
  • Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott
    Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...

    ,
    In a Green Night the "most striking" first collection of poetry of 1962, according to Howard Sergeant, editor of Outposts (writing for publication in 1963). Walcott had already gained recognition with his plays.
  • Vernon Watkins
    Vernon Watkins
    Vernon Phillips Watkins , was a British poet, and a translator and painter. He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English"....

    ,
    Affinities

Anthologies

  • Al Alvarez
    Al Alvarez
    Al Alvarez is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez....

    , editor,
    The New Poetry
    The New Poetry
    The New Poetry was a poetry anthology edited by Al Alvarez, published in 1962 and in a revised edition in 1966. It was greeted at the time as a significant review of the post-war scene in English poetry....

    an anthology that provoked controversy with its omissions and inclusions
  • James Reeves
    James Reeves
    John Morris Reeves was a British writer known as James Reeves principally known for his poetry and contributions to children's literature and the literature of collected traditional songs.-Life:...

    , editor,
    Georgian Poetry

United States

  • Brother Antoninus, The Hazards of Holiness, 1957-1960
  • John Ashbery
    John Ashbery
    John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

    ,
    The Tennis Court Oath
  • Robert Bly
    Robert Bly
    Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...

    ,
    Silence in the Snowy Fields, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press
  • Kay Boyle
    Kay Boyle
    Kay Boyle was an American writer, educator, and political activist.- Early years :The granddaughter of a publisher, Kay Boyle was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in several cities but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio...

    ,
    Collected Poems
  • Gregory Corso
    Gregory Corso
    Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers...

    ,
    Long Live Man
  • Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

    ,
    For Love: Poems 1950-1960, collected lyrics from his seven previous volumes, New York: Scribner's
  • James Dickey
    James Dickey
    James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.-Early years:...

    ,
    Drowning With Others
  • William Everson
    William Everson
    William Everson , also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and was also a literary critic and small press printer.-Beginnings:Everson was born in Sacramento, California...

     (also known as Brother Antoninus,
    The Hazards of Holiness, Garden City, New York: Doubleday
  • William Faulkner
    William Faulkner
    William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...

    ,
    Prose and Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, verse
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay
    Ian Hamilton Finlay
    Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.-Biography:Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas of Scottish parents. He was educated in Scotland at Dollar Academy. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of World War II, he was evacuated to family in the countryside...

    ,
    The Dancers Inherit the Party, Ventura California an dWorcester, England: Migrant Press* Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

    ,
    For Love: Poems 1950-1960, New York: Scribner's British
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet
  • Robert Frost
    Robert Frost
    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...

    ,
    In the Clearing, his first collection of new poems in 15 years
  • Paul Goodman
    Paul Goodman (writer)
    Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement...

    ,
    The Lordly Hudson: Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan
  • Robert Hayden
    Robert Hayden
    Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.-Biography:...

    ,
    A Ballad of Remembrance
  • John Hollander
    John Hollander
    John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

    ,
    Movie-Going and Other Poems
  • Richard Howard
    Richard Howard
    Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...

    ,
    Quantities
  • Weldon Kees
    Weldon Kees
    Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, jazz pianist, and short story writer...

    ,
    Collected Poems, published posthumously
  • Hugh Kenner
    Hugh Kenner
    William Hugh Kenner , was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics...

    , editor,
    T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot
    Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

    : A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism
  • Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77...

    ,
    Thank You and Other Poems
  • Denise Levertov
    Denise Levertov
    -Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...

    ,
    The Jacob's Ladder
  • Hugh MacDiarmid
    Hugh MacDiarmid
    Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve , a significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century...

    ,
    Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan, Briton
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     publishing in the United States
  • Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer
    Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...

    ,
    Deaths for the Ladies
  • James Merrill
    James Merrill
    James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...

    ,
    Water Street
  • W. S. Merwin
    W. S. Merwin
    William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...

    ,
    The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
  • Christopher Middleton
    Christopher Middleton (poet)
    Christopher Middleton is a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.-Life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. He became Professor of Germanic...

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    torse 3, New York: Harcourt, Brace
  • Ogden Nash
    Ogden Nash
    Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".-Early life:Nash was born in Rye, New York...

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    Everyone But Thee and Me, light verse
  • Howard Nemerov
    Howard Nemerov
    Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov...

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    The Next Room of the Dream, University of Chicago Press
  • Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...

    ,
    The Colossus and Other Poems
  • Charles Reznikoff
    Charles Reznikoff
    Charles Reznikoff was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to provide an introduction to what became known as the Objectivist issue of Poetry, Louis Zukofsky provided his essay Sincerity and Objectification: With Special Reference to the Work of...

    ,
    By the Waters of Manhattan: Selected Verse
  • David Ross, Three Ages of Lake Light, his first book of poems
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    Muriel Rukeyser
    Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism...

    ,
    Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962,
  • James Schevill
    James Schevill
    James Erwin Schevill was an American poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State University and Brown University, and the recipient of Guggenheim and Ford Foundation fellowships.-Summary:...

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    Private Dooms and Public Destinations: Poems 1945-1962, Denver: Alan Swallow
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    Winfield Townley Scott
    Winfield Townley Scott was an American poet, critic and diarist.-Life:He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, seven days after the arrival of Halley's Comet. He graduated from Brown University in 1931....

    ,
    Collected Poems
  • Anne Sexton
    Anne Sexton
    Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...

    ,
    All My Pretty Ones, including "The Truth the Dead Know", Boston: Houghton Mifflin
  • Edith Shiffert, In Open Woods, her first book of poems
  • William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark, New York: Harper & Row
  • Diane Wakoski
    Diane Wakoski
    Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...

    ,
    Coins and Coffins
  • Theodore Weiss
    Theodore Weiss (poet)
    Theodore Weiss was an American poet, and literary magazine editor.-Life:...

    ,
    Gunsight, New York University Press
  • Reed Whittemore
    Reed Whittemore
    Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. is an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984.-Biography:Born in New Haven, Connecticut,...

    ,
    The Boy from Iowa
  • William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

    ,
    Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
    Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
    Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems is a 1962 book of poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. It was Williams's final book, for which he posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963....


Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • Karl Shapiro
    Karl Shapiro
    Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.-Biography:...

    ,
    Prose Keys to Modern Poetry

Other in English

  • Kendrick Smithyman
    Kendrick Smithyman
    William Kendrick Smithyman was an award-winning New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century.-Family and early life:...

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    Inheritance, New Zealand
    New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    Chris Wallace-Crabbe AO is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.-Biography:...

    ,
    Eight Metropolitan Poems, Adelaide: Australian Letters, Australia

Works published in other languages

Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

, in French

  • Gérard Bessette
    Gérard Bessette
    Gérard Bessette was a French Canadian writer and educator.Bessette grew up in Montreal and attended the Collège Saint-Ignace...

    ,
    Poèmes temporels
  • Gilles Hénault, Sémaphore

France
French literature
French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...

  • Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....

    ,
    Anti-Platon, France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • André du Bouchet
    André du Bouchet
    André du Bouchet was a French poet.- Biography :Born in Paris, he lived in France until 1941, when his family left occupied Europe for the United States. He studied at Amherst College and then at Harvard University . After teaching for a year, he returned to France...

    ,
    Dans la chaleur vacante
  • René Char
    René Char
    René Char was a 20th century French poet.-Biography:Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of four children of Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks...

    ,
    La Parole en archipel
  • Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau
    Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

    ,
    La Requiem
  • Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, Jonas, published posthumously (died 1957
    1957 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Howl obscenity trial in San Francisco brings significant attention to beat poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg...

    )
  • Pierre Emmanuel
    Pierre Emmanuel
    Noël Mathieu better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration...

    ,
    Evangéliaire
  • André Frénaud, Il n'y a pas de paradis
  • Jean Follain
    Jean Follain
    Jean Follain, was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy...

    ,
    Poèmes et Pros choisis, displaying some similarities to haiku
    Haiku
    ' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...

  • Jean Grosjean
    Jean Grosjean
    Jean Grosjean was a French poet, writer and translator.-Overview:...

    ,
    Apocalypse
  • Pierre Jean Jouve
    Pierre Jean Jouve
    Pierre Jean Jouve was a French writer, novelist and poet. No more info at the moment.-References:...

    ,
    Moires
  • Stéphane Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...

    ,
    Pour un tombeau d'Anatole, an abandoned and previously unpublished work, consisting of notes and drafts of an elegy the poet expected to write on his dead son (posthumous); edited by J. P. Richard
  • Robert Marteau, Royaumes
  • Henri Michaux
    Henri Michaux
    Henri Michaux was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter who wrote in French. He later took French citizenship. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism...

    ,
    Vents et poussières, Paris: Flinker
  • Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...

    :
    • Hommage à Rabindranath Tagore, Liège: Editions Dynamo
    • L'ordre des oiseaux, Paris: Sociéte d'Editions d'art; republished as Oiseaux, Paris: Sociéte d'Editions d'art
    • Valéry Larbaud; ou, L'Honneur littéraire, Liège: Editions Dynamo
  • Marcelin Pleynet
    Marcelin Pleynet
    Marcelin Pleynet was born in Lyon, France in 1933. Writer, essayist, poet, he was Managing Editor of the influential magazine Tel Quel from 1962 to 1982, and co-edits the journal L'Infini with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in...

    ,
    Provisoires Amants des nègres
  • Francis Ponge
    Francis Ponge
    Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a French essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two — essay and poem — into a single art form.-Life:...

    ,
    Le Grand Recueil in three volumes
  • Jean Claude Renard:
    • Incantation du temps
    • Incantation des eaux
  • Michel Sager, XXI poèmes nocturnes

Criticism and scholarship
  • J. P. Richard, L'Univers imaginaire de Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...


Germany
German literature
German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...

  • G. Benn, Lyrik des expressionistischen Jahrzehnts, anthology
  • Marie-Luise Kaschnitz, Dein Schweigen-meine Stimmen
  • Hilde Domin
    Hilde Domin
    Hilde Domin , whose real name was Hilde Palm , was a German lyric poet and writer. She was amongst the most important German-language poets of her time.-Biography:...

    ,
    Rückkehr der Schiffe
  • Wilhelm Lehmann, Abschiedslust, Gedichte aus den Jahren 1957-1961, 37 poems
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger , is a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich.- Life :...

    ,
    Viele schöne Kinderreime, 777 poems for children

Hebrew
Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews...

  • Anonymous author from the Soviet Union, Zion Halo Tishali, poems originally written in Russian and clandestinely sent to Israel, edited and translated by A. Shlonsky and M. Sharett
  • Avigdor Hameiri
    Avigdor Hameiri
    Avigdor Hameiri was an Israeli author.-Biography:Hameiri was born Avigdor Feuerstein in 1890 in the village of Odavidhaza , Carpathian Ruthenia in Austria Hungary. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921, where he became one of the original 16,000 1948 freedom fighters...

    ,
    Belivnat ha-Sapir ("Clear-cut Sapphire"), collected poems
  • Levi Ben-Amittai, Matana Mimidbar ("Gift of the Desert")
  • Yitzahak Ogen, Shirim ("Poems")
  • P. Elad-Lander, Ke'raiah ha-Sadeh ("As the Fragrance of the Field")
  • A. Halfi, Mul Kohavim ve-Afar ("Against Stars and the Dust")
  • A. Meyrowitz, Avnai Bait ("Stones of a House")
  • D. Avidan, Shirai Lahatz ("Poems of Pressure")
  • Uri Bernstein, Beoto ha-Heder Beoto ha-Or ("In the Same Room, In the Same Light")
  • T. Carmi
    T. Carmi
    -Biography:He was born Carmi Charny in New York City. Hebrew was his mother tongue and his family used it as the spoken language of their home. He moved to Israel just before the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence...

    ,
    Nehash ha-Nehoshet ("Brass Serpent")
  • J. Lichtenbaum, Shiratenu ("Our Poetry"), a two-volume anthology of Hebrew poetry from the end of the 18th century
  • J. J. Schwartz, Kentucky, the only volume of Hebrew poetry published in the United States, according to The Britannica Book of the Year 1963 (covering events of 1962)

India
Indian poetry
Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
  • Barnardino Evaristo Mendes, also known as B. E. Mendes, Goenchem Git, Konkani
  • Gulzar, Jaanam, New Delhi: Vanagi Publications; Urdu
    Urdu poetry
    Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....

  • Maheswar Neog, Asamiya Sahityar Ruprekha, Assamese
    Assamese Poetry
    Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...

    -language
  • Ratnadhwaj Josi, Hamro Kavya Paramparama Usaiko Lagi ("Our Poetic Tradition"), criticism, Nepali

Italy
Italian poetry
-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

  • A. Gatto, Carlomagno nella grotta
  • Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...

    ,
    Satura, published in a private edition, Verona: Oficina Bodoni
  • Cesare Pavese
    Cesare Pavese
    Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.- Early life and education :...

    ,
    Poesie edite e inedite, edited by Italo Calvino
    Italo Calvino
    Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...

    , Turin: Einaudi (posthumous)
  • Maria Luisa Spaziani
    Maria Luisa Spaziani
    Maria Luisa Spaziani is an Italian poet.She was born in Turin in 1924. At nineteen, Spaziani founded the review Il dado, working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vincenzo Ciaffi. Virginia Woolf sent her a chapter of her novel The Waves, autographed to Alla piccola...

    ,
    Il gong
  • P. Volponi, Memoriale

Latin America
Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...

  • Héctor Rojas Herazo
    Héctor Rojas Herazo
    Héctor Rojas Herazo was a Colombian novelist, poet, journalist and painter.Rojas was born in Tolú as son of Juan Emiro Rojas and Blance Berta Herazo. He was baptized on October 6, 1921. He started artistic works in his childhood and was taught in plastic arts by his cousin José Manuel González....

    ,
    Mascando las tinieblas en el odio (Colombia)
  • Alberto Hidalgo, Historia peruana verdadera
  • José Martí
    José Martí
    José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban...

    ,
    Versos (Cuban), posthumous; with an introduction by Eugenio Florit
  • Pablo Neruda
    Pablo Neruda
    Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....

    , a bilingual anthology of his selected verse; with an introduction by Louis Monguió
  • Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
    Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
    Rubén Bonifaz Nuño is a Mexican poet and classical scholar.Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he began lecturing in Latin at the UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and received a doctorate in Classics in...

    ,
    Fuego de pobres (Mexico)
  • Carlos Pellicer
    Carlos Pellicer
    Carlos Pellicer Cámara , born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was heavily active in the promotion of Mexican art and literature...

    ,
    Material poético (Mexico)

Spain
Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain...

  • Jorge Guillén
    Jorge Guillén
    Jorge Guillén y Álvarez was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.-Biography:Jorge Guillén was born in Valladolid. His life paralleled that of his friend Pedro Salinas, whom he succeeded as a Spanish teaching assistant at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris from 1917 to...

    ,
    Lenguaje y poesía
  • A collaboration of 50 poets and 14 illustrators, Versos para Antonio Machado
    Antonio Machado
    Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98....

    (published in France)

Yiddish
Yiddish literature
Yiddish literature encompasses all belles lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central Europe and locus for centuries in Eastern Europe, is evident in its literature.It is generally described...

  • Eliyohu Bokher, Bovo-bukh ("Buovo d'Antona") (posthumous) a 16th-century epic poem translated into modern Yiddish by Moyshe Knaphes
  • Yaykev Glatshteyn, Di freyd fun yidishn vort ("The Joy of the Yiddish World)
  • N. I. Gotlib, a book of poetry
  • Chaim Grade
    Chaim Grade
    Chaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century....

    , Der mench fun fayer ("The Man of Fire")
  • Rokhl Korn, a book of poetry
  • Kadye Molodovsky, editor, Lider fun khurbn ("Poems of the Catastrophe"), an anthology in which emphasized the theme of the Holocaust
  • Shloyme Shenhud, a book of poetry
  • A. N. Shtensl, a book of poetry
  • I. J. Shvarts, a book of poetry
  • I. Taubes, a book of poetry
  • Meyer Ziml Tkach, a book of poetry
  • Shneyer Vaserman, a book of poetry
  • Avrom Zak, a book of poetry
  • Reyzl Zhykhlinsky, a book of poetry

Other

  • Ruy de Moura Belo, O problema da habitação—alguns aspectos ("The Quandry of Living: Some Aspects'", Portugal
    Portuguese poetry
    -History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...

  • Inger Christensen
    Inger Christensen
    Inger Christensen was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.-Life and work:...

    , Lys: digte ("Light"), Denmark
  • Wisława Szymborska: Sól ("Salt"), Poland
    Polish literature
    Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...


United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Eric Gregory Award
    Eric Gregory Award
    The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....

    : Donald Thomas
    Donald Thomas
    Donald Serrell Thomas is an English author of Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London...

    , James Simmons, Brian Johnson, Jenny Joseph
    Jenny Joseph
    -Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...

  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
    Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
    The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the rest of the Commonwealth realms...

    : Christopher Fry
    Christopher Fry
    Christopher Fry was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...


United States

  • Bollingen Prize
    Bollingen Prize
    The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.-Inception and controversy:The...

    : John Hall Wheelock
    John Hall Wheelock
    John Hall Wheelock was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.He wrote fourteen books of poetry and was co-winner of the 1962 Bollingen Prize...

     and Richard Eberhart
    Richard Eberhart
    Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...

  • National Book Award for Poetry
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    : Alan Dugan
    Alan Dugan
    Alan Dugan was an American poet.His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry....

    , Poems
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...

    : Alan Dugan
    Alan Dugan
    Alan Dugan was an American poet.His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry....

    : Poems
  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Crowe Ransom
    John Crowe Ransom
    John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.-Life:...

  • Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
    Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
    The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet...

    : Jack Gilbert
    Jack Gilbert
    -Life and career:Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker...

    : Monolithos

Awards in other nations

  • Grand Prix National des Lettres (France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

    ): Pierre Jean Jouve
    Pierre Jean Jouve
    Pierre Jean Jouve was a French writer, novelist and poet. No more info at the moment.-References:...

  • Grand prix de Littérature de l'Académe Française (France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

    ): Luc Estang, for his work as a whole
  • Canada:
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Twelve Letters to a Small Town and The Winter Sun and Other Plays, James Reaney
    James Reaney
    James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...

  • Canada:
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     Governor General's Award, Poésie et théâtre: Les insolites et les violons de l'automne, Jacques Languirand

Births

  • May 30 – Elizabeth Alexander
    Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
    Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and a university professor.-Early life:Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City and grew up in Washington D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman...

    , American poet
  • October 9 – Durs Grunbein
    Durs Grünbein
    Durs Grünbein is a German poet, living in Berlin since 1985.Grünbein is hailed as the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, and his work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won in 1995...

    , German
  • December 6 – Julia Kasdorf
    Julia Kasdorf
    -Life:Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of three poetry collections--Sleeping Preacher , Eve's Striptease , and Poetry in America --all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sleeping Preacher won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Great Lakes College’s Association Award for...

    , is an American poet
  • December 31 – Machi Tawara
    Machi Tawara
    is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet. She is credited with revitalizing the tanka for modern Japanese audiences...

     俵万智, Japanese
    Japanese poetry
    Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...

     writer, translator and poet
  • March 13 – Seyhan Erözçelik
    Seyhan Erözçelik
    Seyhan Erözçelik was a Turkish poet.-Biography:He was born in 1962 in Bartın, Turkey, a town in the Black Sea region. He studied psychology at Boğazici University and Oriental languages at Istanbul University. In 1986, he co-founded the Siir Ati publishing house, which published over forty titles...

    , a Turkish
    Turkish people
    Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

     poet (died 2011
    2011 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights...

    )

  • Also:
    • Paul Beatty
      Paul Beatty
      Paul Beatty is a contemporary African-American author. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. A 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California.In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand...

      , African-American poet and author
    • Stacy Doris
    • Glyn Maxwell
      Glyn Maxwell
      Glyn Maxwell is a British poet.-Early life:Though his parents are Welsh, Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. He studied English at Worcester College, Oxford. He began an MLitt there, but in 1987 moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at...

      , British
      English poetry
      The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

       poet
    • Virgil Suárez
      Virgil Suárez
      Virgil Suárez is a Cuban American poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community, known for such novels as Latin Jazz and Going Under....

      , Cuban American poet and novelist

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • January 20 – Robinson Jeffers
    Robinson Jeffers
    John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.-Life:Jeffers was born in...

    , 85 (born 1887
    1887 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....

    ), American poet and playwright
  • March 18 – George Sylvester Viereck
    George Sylvester Viereck
    George Sylvester Viereck was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist.-Biography:...

    , 77 (born 1884
    1884 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems. Published at author's expense....

    ), American poet and novelist, as well as a pro-German propagandist during both World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     and World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

  • May 26 – Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
    Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
    Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.-Early work:...

    , 83 (died 1878
    1878 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it ...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet
  • June 2 – Vita Sackville-West
    Vita Sackville-West
    The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH , best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933...

    , 70 (born 1892
    1892 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin....

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     novelist and poet
  • June 8 – William Stanley Braithwaite
    William Stanley Braithwaite
    William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite was an American writer, poet and literary critic.Braithwaite was born in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of 12, upon the death of his father, Braithwaite was forced to quit school to support his family...

     (born 1878
    1878 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it ...

    ), American
  • June 22 – John Holmes
    John Holmes (poet)
    John Holmes , born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years. He wrote several volumes of poetry and the lyrics to several Unitarian...

    , 58, American educator and poet
  • July 27 – Richard Aldington
    Richard Aldington
    Richard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry...

    , 70, English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     writer and poet
  • August 9 – Herman Hesse, 95, Swiss novelist and poet in German
    German literature
    German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...

  • August 18 – Rosemary Carr Benét, 65(?), poet and widow of Stephen Vincent Benét
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By...


  • September 3 – E.E. Cummings, at 67 (born 1894
    1894 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Yellow Book, published 1894–97...

    ), American poet, of a stroke;
  • October 3 – Dakotsu Iida
    Dakotsu Iida
    was a famous Japanese haiku poet from Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was . He trained under Kyoshi Takahama, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu and Unmo...

     飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen name
    Pen name
    A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

    s of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (born 1885
    1885 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.-United Kingdom:...

    ), Japanese
    Japanese poetry
    Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...

     haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
  • November 3 – Ralph Hodgson
    Ralph Hodgson
    Ralph Hodgson , Order of the Rising Sun ,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets...

    , 91 (born 1871
    1871 in poetry
    — From Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part of Through the Looking GlassNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet
  • December 3 – Dame Mary Gilmore
    Mary Gilmore
    Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.-Early life:Mary Jean Cameron was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales...

    , 97, Australian
    Australian literature
    Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...

     socialist, poet and journalist

  • Also:
    • Alan Mulgan (born 1881
      1881 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society-Canada:...

      ), New Zealand

See also

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