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Events
- Ottawa native Elizabeth Smart moves permanently to England.
- Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.
- Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels closes theaters and publishers in Germany
- Ezra Pound, still in Italy, is indicted for treason by the United States Attorney General.1
- September 12 — Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew who wrote is poetry in Yiddish, escaped the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hid in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginsky, fought against the Nazis as a partisan. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever wrote more than 80 poems, whose manuscripts he managed to save for postwar publication.
Works published
- Allen Curnow, Sailing or Drowning (Progressive Publishing Society), New Zealand2
- Odysseus Elytis, Sun the First, Greek
- Weldon Kees, The Last Man, American
- Rudyard Kipling, A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T. S. Eliot
- Padrych Rhys, editor, More Poems From The Forces (anthology), United Kingdom
- Dylan Thomas, New Poems, Welsh
- Lawrence Durrell, A Private Country, English
Awards and honors
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Allen Tate appointed this year. He would serve until 1943.
- Frost Medal: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet
- May 11 – Michael Palmer, American poet, translator, and winner of 2006 Wallace Stevens Award.
- June 7 – Nikki Giovanni, African American poet, activist and author
- July 21 – Tess Gallagher, American poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright.
- September 12 – Michael Ondaatje, Canadian-Sri Lankan novelist and poet whose Booker Prize winning novel, The English Patient, was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film
- December 8:
- James Tate, American poet, educator, and man of letters and a winner of the Pultizer Prize, National Book Award
- Jim Morrison
- December 9 – Michael Krüger, German poet, writer, publisher and translator
- Date not known:
- Bert Almon
- John Balaban, American poet and translator
- Alan Bold (died 1998), Scottish
- Charles E. Cobb, Jr., African-American
- Alfred Corn, American poet and essayist
- Emanuel di Pasquale
- Sarah Getty
- Maureen Harris
- Tridib Mitra, Bengali poet associated with the 1961-1965 Hungryalism (or "Hungry Generation") movement
- Ron Smith, Canadian poet, author, playwright and publisher
- Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., African-American
- Frederick Turner (poet), English poet, critic and academic in the United States; former editor of The Kenyon Review
- Ellen Bryant Voigt, American
- Bill Zavatsky
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 27 – Kostis Palamas, Greek
- March 10 – Lawrence Binyon, 72 born 1869), English poet, dramatist and art scholar
- March 13 – Stephen Vincent Benét, 44 (born 1898), American poet
- October 7 – Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, 63, English poet and author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness
- November 26 – Charles G. D. Roberts (born 1860), Canadian poet and writer known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he served as an inspiration for other writers of his time; also known as one of the "Confederation poets" (together with his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott)
- date not known:
- F. M. Cornford, English classical scholar and poet
- Sidney A. K. Keyes, killed in Tunisia in World War II
- Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet
- William Soutar, leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Bedridden from 1930, he eventually contracted and died of tuberculosis.
- Bertram Warr
See also
References
- ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
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