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Overview of the events of 1952 in poetry
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Overview of the events of 1952 in poetry
Events
August 12 —
Night of the Murdered Poets , the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets.
November —
The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s begins at
Downing College ,
University of Cambridge :
Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read aloud in the university, decides to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper
Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group. Five others, including
Peter Redgrove , come along to the first meeting. The group meets once a week during term; it moves to London in
1955 .
E. E. Cummings is appointed to a
Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
Contact , a mimeographed poetry magazine, founded by
Ramond Souster (ceases publication in
1954 ); Contact Press, an important publisher of
Canadian poetry, is also founded (closes in
1967 ).
[1]
Lines Review , a Scottish poetry magazine, is founded by
Callum Macdonald in Edinburgh.
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:
Alfred Bailey , Border River
[2]
Earle Birney , Trial of a City and Other Verse . Toronto: Ryerson.
[3]
Louis Dudek ,
Raymond Souster and
Irving Layton . Cerberus . Toronto: Contact Press, 1952.
[4]
Louis Dudek , The Searching Image . Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1952.
[4]
Louis Dudek , Twenty-Four Poems . Toronto: Contact Press, 1952.
[4]
Wilson MacDonald , The Lyric Year . Toronto: Ryerson.
[5]
Jay Macpherson , Nineteen Poems
[2]
E. J. Pratt ,
Towards the Last Spike , Toronto: Macmillan.
[6] Governor General's Award
1952 .
Sri Aurobindo , Last Poems ( Poetry in English ), mostly philosophical, mystical poetry;
[7]
Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram, posthumously published (died
1950 ), posthumously published (died
1950 )
[8]
Dilip Kumar Roy ,
Sri Aurobindo Came to Me ,
Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram
[9]
Themis , Poems ( Poetry in English ), 74 mystical lyrics, from the Aurobindoean school;
[7]
Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram
[10]
G. V. Subbaramayya , Songs and Sonnets ( Poetry in English ),
Nellore : Viveka Publishers
[10]
Nissim Ezekiel , A Time to Change ( Poetry in English ),
A. Alvarez , Poems
[12]
W. H. Auden , Nones , published February 22 in the United Kingdom (first published in February
1951 in the
United States )
[12]
William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir , Personal Poems
C. Day-Lewis , translation, The Aenid of
Virgil (see also The Georgics of Virgil
1940 , The Eclogues of Virgil
1963 )
[12]
Paul Dehn , Romantic Landscape
Patric Dickinson , The Sailing Race, and Other Poems
[12]
Lawrence Durrell , A Key To Modern Poetry
Nissim Ezekiel , Time To Change ,
Indian living at this time in the United Kingdom
[13]
Gabriel Fielding , The Frog Prince and Other Poems
Michael Hamburger , translator into English from the
German original of
Austrian
Georg Trakl 's Decline: 12 Poems , Guido Morris /
Latin Press
David Jones ,
The Anathemata
Thomas Kinsella , The Starlit Eye
[12]
Louis MacNeice , Ten Burnt Offerings
[12]
Edwin Muir , Collected Poems 1921–51
[12]
James Reeves , The Password, and Other Poems
[12]
Sir
Osbert Sitwell , Wrack at Tidesend , published on May 16, a sequel to England Reclaimed of
1927 (see also On the Continent
1958 )
[12]
Dylan Thomas :
R.S. Thomas , An Acre of Land
R. P. Blackmur , Language as Gesture , criticism
[14]
Robert Creeley , Le Fou ,
American published in Europe
[15]
Archibald Macleish , Collected Poems, 1917–1952 , winner of the Pulitzer Prize
[14]
W. S. Merwin , A Mask for Janus , New Haven, Connecticut:
Yale University Press ; awarded the
Yale Younger Poets Prize , 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems , 1975)
[16]
Frank O'Hara , A City in Winter and Other Poems
[17]
Kenneth Rexroth , The Dragon and the Unicorn , a verse journal of his European travels
[14]
Wallace Stevens , Selected Poems , Fortune Press
[18]
Jesse Stuart , Kentucky Is my Land
[17]
New World Writing the first of an annual paperback anthology of prose, drama and poetry; continues to
1959 in poetry
[14]
Peter Viereck , The First Morning
[17]
Yvor Winter , Collected Poems
[17]
Other
Works published in other languages
Rene-Guy Cadou , Helene ou le regne vegetal , Volume 1, published posthumously (died
1951 )
[20]
Jean Cayrol , Les Mots sont aussi des demeures 1952
[20]
Jean Cocteau , Le Chiffre sept
[20]
Pierre Emmanuel ,
pen name of Noël Mathieu, Babel
[20]
Jean Grosjean , Le Livre du juste
[20]
Benjamin Péret , Air mexicain
[21]
Raymond Queneau , Si tu t'imagines
[21]
Francis Ponge , La Rage de lexpression
[21]
Georges Schéhadé , Les Poésies
[20]
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
D. V. Gundappa , translator, Umarana Osage , translated from the English of
Edward Fitzgerald 's translation of The Rubaiyatt of Omar Khayyam
[7]
M. Gopalakrishna Adiga , Nadedu Banna Dari , poems showing the transition in Indian poetry from the more idealistic Navodaya tradition to
Navya poetry which is more pessimistic and uses imagery to provide structure;
Kannada
[7]
Pejavara Sadashiva Rao , Varuna , written before 1950, but differing distinctly from navodaya poetry; using original rhythm and with subject matter from the experiences of an alienated individual; including "Natyotsava", considered by some critics as the earliest
navya poem in the
Kannada language; published posthumously (the author died at age 26 in Italy)
[7]
Other languages in India
Amrita Pritam , Sarghi Vela , romantic and progressive poems;
Punjabi
[7]
Bahinabai , Bahinabaici Kavita ,
Marathi
[7]
Birendra Chattopadhyay , Ranur Janya ,
Bengali
[7]
Chandranath Mishra , Yugacakra , humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of
Maithili ", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (see also Unata pal
1972 , a revised and expanded edition)
[7]
Faiz Ahmad Faiz , Dast-e-Saba ,
Urdu
[7]
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi , Nai Subah (The New Morn), collection of poems published by Adaaraa Seemab, Daryaganj, Delhi in 1952.
Urdu
Gangaprasad Upadhyay , Arodaya mahakavya , epic poem on
Swami Dayananda ;
Sanskrit
[7]
Jnanindra Barma Eka Ratri, Uttara Kranti, Ratnarakha ,
Oriya
[7]
Mir Shaban Dar , Qissa-e-Bahram Shah , popular romantic poem in
masnavi form, modeled on a
Persian poem;
Kashmiri
[7]
Parsram Rohra , Sitar ,
Sindhi
[7]
Pinakin Thakore , Alap ,
Gujarati
[7]
Pir Atiquallah , Pirnama , comic narrative poem in
masnavi form on the "Ways of the Pir"; shows the influence of
Maqbool ;
Kashmiri
[7]
Rayaprolu Subba Rao , Rupanavanitamu , poems honoring womanhood and spiritual love;
Telugu
[7]
Sreedhara Menon , Onappattukar ,
Malayalam
[7]
Other languages
Paul Celan ,
Poppy and Memory (
German : Mohn und Gedächtnis ),
Romanian -born poet writing in
German
[22]
Gabriela Mistral , Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos , Santiago,
Chile : Philobiblion
[23]
Sean O Riordain , Eireaball Spideoige , including "Adhlacadh Mo Mhathar", "Malairt", "Cnoc Melleri" and "Siollabadh",
Gaelic -language,
Ireland
[24]
Wisława Szymborska : Dlatego żyjemy ("That's Why We Are Alive"),
Poland
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 –
Jimmy Santiago Baca ,
American poet and writer
January 10 –
Dorianne Laux ,
American poet
January 11 –
Carla Harryman ,
American poet and playwright
January 17 –
Barry Dempster ,
Canadian poet and novelist
January 20 –
Roo Borson , pen name of Ruth Elizabeth Borson, American native living in
Canada
January 25 –
Alice Fulton ,
American poet, author and
MacArthur Foundation fellow
February 24
March 12 –
Naomi Shihab Nye ,
American poet and songwriter born to a Palestinian father and American mother
April 12 –
Gary Soto , Mexican-
American poet and author
May –
Susan Stewart ,
American poet, academic and literary critic
June 20 –
Vikram Seth ,
Indian poet, novelist, travel writer,
librettist , children's writer, biographer and memoirist
June 5 –
Mark Jarman ,
American poet and critic often identified with the "New Narrative" branch of the
New Formalism
August 5 –
D. C. Reid ,
Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer
August 12 –
Robert Minhinnick ,
Welsh poet and writer
August 24 –
Linton Kwesi Johnson ,
Jamaican -born musician and poet
August 28 –
Rita Dove , African
American poet and author and
Poet Laureate of the United States
September 18 –
Alberto Ríos ,
American poet and writer
September 21 –
Jock Scot , born John Leslie (died
2016 ),
Scottish performance poet
October 6 –
Matthew Sweeney (died
2018 ),
Irish poet
October 26 –
Andrew Motion ,
English poet, novelist, biographer and
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
November 7 –
Malca Litovitz ,
Canadian poet, author and educator
November 26 –
Munawwar Rana (died
2024 ),
Indian
Urdu poet
December 12 –
Helen Dunmore (died
2017 ),
English poet
December 19 –
Sean O'Brien ,
English poet
December 20 –
Sky Gilbert ,
Canadian poet, writer, actor, academic and drag performer
Also:
Deaths
Grave of
Paul Éluard
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 22 –
Roger Vitrac , 52 (born
1899 ),
French
Surrealist poet and dramatist
February 3 –
Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明,
pen name of Kambara Hayao (born
1876 ),
Taishō and
Shōwa period
Japanese poet and novelist
March 1 –
Masao Kume 久米正雄, writing under the pen name "Santei" (born
1891 ), late
Taishō period and early
Shōwa period
Japanese playwright, novelist and
haiku poet
July 8 –
August Alle (born
1890 ),
Estonian writer and poet
August 1 –
Arthur Shearly Cripps (born
1869 ),
English Anglican missionary, short story writer and poet
August 22 –
E. J. Brady (born
1869 ),
Australian
September 26 –
George Santayana (born
1863 ), Spanish-
American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist
November 16 –
Charles Maurras , 84 (born
1868 ),
French author, poet and critic
November 18 –
Paul Éluard , 56 (born
1895 ),
French poet; broke with Surrealism on becoming a
Stalinist (heart attack)
November 21 –
Henriette Roland Holst (born
1869 ),
Dutch poet and socialist
November 23 –
Aaro Hellaakoski (born
1893 ),
Finnish poet
December 27 –
Patrick Joseph Hartigan , writing under the pen name "Joseph O'Brien" (born
1878 ),
Australian
Also:
See also
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