1944 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published in English

Canadian poet E. J. Pratt in 1944

United Kingdom

• W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
• Sir John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries
• Walter De la Mare, Collected Rhymes and Verses
• T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

United States

• H.D., "The Walls Do Not Fall", first part of Trilogy (1944–46) on the blitz in war-time London
• Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness, Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press¹
• William Meredith, Love Letter from an Impossible Land
• Kenneth Rexroth, The Phoenix and the Tortoise
• William Carlos Williams, The Wedge
• Crown and Sickle poetry anthology in Britain, featuring poets in the New Apocalyptics movement

Other in English

• James K. Baxter, Beyond the Palisade, his first volume of poetry, New Zealand
• E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry, revised edition (scholarship), Canada²
• Ronald Hambleton, editor Unit of five: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P. K. Page, Raymond Souster, James Wreford, anthology, Toronto: Ryerson Press, Canada³

Works published in other languages

• Nathan Alterman, Plague Poems (Israel)
• Badarayan, Kedi(Indian, writing in Gujarati)⁴
• Giorgos Seferis, Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙ ("Deck Diary II"), Greece
• Umashankar Joshi, Prachina, a "dialogue-poem" (Indian, writing in Gujarati)⁵

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"): Robert Penn Warren appointed this year. He would serve until 1945.

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 9 — Alice Walker, African-American novelist, poet, writer and feminist
• February 19 — Jeffrey Wainwright, English poet and academic
• March 21 — Pedro Pietri, (died in 2004) a Puerto Rican and Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• August 25 — Margaret Gibson (poet) (died 1999), African-American
• August 31 — Lorenzo Thomas, American
• September 24 — Eavan Boland, Irish
• September 25 — bpNichol, Canadian
• October 10 — Linda Rogers, Canadian poet and children's writer
• December 3 — Craig Raine, English poet and critic
• December 10 — Carol Rumens, English poet, writer, literary editor and academic
• December 18 — Michael Davidson, American
• date not known:
  • Sandra Alcosser, American
  • David Constantine, British poet, translator, editor and academic
  • John Donlan, Canadian and editor
  • Paul Duncan
  • William Hathaway (poet), American
  • Susan Ioannou, Canadian
  • Penn Kemp, Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and sound poet
  • Mary Kinzie, American
  • Robert C. Morgan, American art critic, art historian, curator, poet and artist
  • John Reibetanz
  • Jergen Theobaldy, German⁶
  • Sherley Anne Williams, American

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 7 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek
• March 5 – Alun Lewis, Anglo-Welsh school poet and war poet killed in Burma
• March 28 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian writer and economist
• April 4 – John Peale Bishop, American poet and man of letters
• May 22 – William Ellery Leonard (born 1876), American poet and academic
• June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet died in the D-Day invasion of Normandy; he was killed by enemy mortar fire while his regiment was advancing from Bayeux and is buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles.
• July 3 – A. H. Reginald Buller, a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
• July 18 – Thomas Sturge Moore (born 1870), English poet, author and artist
• September 26 – Eunice Tietjens (born 1884), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
• November 22 – Sadakichi Hartmann (born 1867), American
• Date not known:
  • Olivia Bush
  • Joseph Campbell, Irish poet and lyricist
  • Olive Custance, poet
  • Keith Castellain Douglas, killed in World War II at Normandy;
  • Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
  • Frederick George Scott

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ M. 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
2. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "History and Criticism" section, p 164
3. ^ Web page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works", at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
4. ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
5. ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
6. ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

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