Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, "Projective Verse". In this, he calls for a poetry of "open field" composition to replace traditional closed poetic forms with an improvised form that should reflect exactly the content of the poem. This form is to be based on the line, and each line is to be a unit of breath and of utterance. The content is to consist of "one perception immediately and directly (leading) to a further perception". This essay becomes a kind of de facto manifesto for the
Black Mountain poets.
George Oppen and his wife, Mary, move from the United States to Mexico, where their links to Communism are less problematic.
The Beloit Poetry Journal is founded by Robert Glauber and Chad Walsh. It is intended to be a publication of
Beloit College since Walsh is an English teacher there.[1]
Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn, includes "The Auroras of Autumn," "Large Red Man Reading," "In a Bad Time," "The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract," "Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight," "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," and "A Primitive Like an Orb"), Knopf[15]
September 17 –
Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (born
1862),
Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a teacher of the
Yagyu Shinkage-ryu martial-arts school (surname: Hoshino)
December 5 –
Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (born
1872),
Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English
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Wayback Machine / James Wreford [Watson], 1950," Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing, McMaster.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011.
^Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 182 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")
^Joshi, Irene, compiler,
"Poetry Anthologies"Archived 2009-08-30 at the
Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
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abM. 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
^Gittings, Robert William Victor (1911–1992), poet and writer in ODNBonline (subscription required)
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abcdefghijkLudwig, 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)
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abcdAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
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abBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^ITHL.org.ilArchived 2007-09-30 at the
Wayback Machine, Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
^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