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United Kingdom links to
English poetry and
Indian links to
Indian poetry.
Events
January 19 - Starting this year, and continuing to at least
2009, an anonymous black-clad person, who enters popular lore as the
Poe Toaster, appears in
Baltimore at the
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground tomb of
American poet
Edgar Allan Poe early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The man toasts Poe with Cognac and leaves three red roses at the grave (along with the remainder of the Cognac).[1]
Indonesian poet
Chairil Anwar writes his last poem, "Cemara Menderai Sampai Jauh" ("Fir Trees Are Sown Off Into the Distance"), prior to his death aged 26 on April 28.[5]
Greek Communist poet
Yannis Ritsos, incarcerated during the Communist–centrist/rightist struggle in the
Greek Civil War, writes poems which will ultimately see publication twenty-six years later, in the
1975 book, Petrinos khronos.
August 1 –
Jim Carroll (died
2009), American poet, author and punk musician[26]
August 2 –
Bei Dao (北島, literally "Northern Island"), pseudonym of Zhao Zhenkai,
Chinese poet, the most notable representative of the
Misty Poets, a group of
Chinese poets who react against the restrictions of the
Cultural Revolution
June 15 –
Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, also known simply as "Ulloor" (born
1877),
Indian,
Malayalam-language poet, scholar and government official who published a five-volume history of Malayalam literature[27]
^Ackroyd, Peter (1980). "Chronology". Ezra Pound. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. p. 118.
^Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2010). "14 April". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature (2011 ed.). London: Icon Books.
ISBN978-184831-247-0.
^"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002,
ISBN978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
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abGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^
abcdefghijklmnoLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^Untitled review by
A. Norman Jeffares, of book in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 7 (Jul., 1951), pp. 291-293
^Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, p 810, Penguin, 1992,
ISBN978-0-14-042385-3
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abBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^
abcdeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^"Archived copy". Archived from
the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-06.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link) Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
^"Danish Poetry" article, pp 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^Shrayer, Maxim,
"Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007,
ISBN0-7656-0521-X,
ISBN978-0-7656-0521-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
^Paniker, Ayyappa,
"Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009.