1947 in poetry
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Events

• Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
• Landfall literary magazine is founded in New Zealand (now that country's oldest literary journal)

Works published

Title page of The Age of Anxiety (1947); Auden specified the typography for this book.

• Kingsley Amis, Bright November
• W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety"
• Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
• August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
• Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
• Paul Hiebert, Sara Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan"
• Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians (his second book of poetry)
• Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
• Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
• Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law
• Giorgos Seferis, Κίχλη (The Thrush)
• John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadian's: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology^[1]
• Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication
• Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock
• Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy

Awards and honors

• Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
• 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 Lowell appointed this year.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely Torrence

Births

• January 2 — Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changed her name
• April 13 — Rae Armantrout, American poet
• May 23 — Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator (died 1995)
• July 25 — Leslie Scalapino, American poet
• August 8 — Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activist
• November 13 — John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
• December 26 — Liz Lochhead Scottish poet and dramatist
• date not known:
  • Cheryl Clarke
  • Yusef Komunyakaa — American poet, academic and recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Al Moritz
  • Molly Peacock — American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
  • Charlie Smith
  • Rosemary Sullivan — Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist

Deaths

• December 19 — Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian poet and writer
• date not known:
  • Anna Wickham, British poet
  • Richard Le Gallienne, English writer and poet

See also

Poetry portal

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

References

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