1953 in poetry
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Events

George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found The Paris Review.

Works published

• John Ashbery, Turandot and Other Poems
• W. H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955
• James K. Baxter, The Fallen House, New Zealand
• Charles Causley, Survivor's Leave
• Robert Creeley, American published in Europe:
  • The Kind of Act of^[1]
  • The Immoral Proposition^[1]
• E. E. Cummings, i — six nonlectures from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures of 1951-1952 (Harvard University Press)
• Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
• Louis MacNeice, Autumn Sequel
• Charles Olson:
  • In Cold Hell, In Thicket, published in Origin as its eighth issue
  • Mayan Letters, letters to the poet Robert Creeley, report on the author's research into Mayan hieroglyphs and discuss Olson's ideas on "objectism" in poetry. (criticism)^[2]
• Karl Shapiro, Poems 1940-1953, New York: Random House^[3]
• W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle, New York: Knopf^[3]
• Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems
• John Heath-Stubbs, New Poems
• John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright. editors, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950, a selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse
• R.S. Thomas, The Minister
• Melvin Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

Poets in the anthology Images of Tomorrow

John Heath-Stubbs edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers: Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – Eurasia Anderson - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter - Alex Comfort – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas – George Every – John Fairfax – G. S. Fraser – John Gibbs – W. S. Graham - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Norman Nicholson – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine – Anne Ridler – Walter Roberts – W. R. Rodgers – Joseph Rykwert – John Smith – Muriel Spark – Derek Stanford – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain – John Waller – Vernon Watkins – Gordon Wharton - Margaret Willy – David Wright

Awards and honors

United Kingdom

• King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur Waley

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Marianne Moore
• National Book Award for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems: 1917-1952
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952
• Bollingen Prize: Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Frost

Births

• July 29 — Frank McGuinness, dramatist and poet
• February 27 — Brad Leithauser
• date not known:
  • Mark Doty, American
  • Jane Hirshfield, American poet and translator
  • Peter Robinson, poet
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg, American poet

Deaths

• April 6 — Idris Davies, Welsh poet, originally writing in Cymraeg, but later writing exclusively in English.
• July 16 — Hilaire Belloc, 82, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplace
• November 9 — Dylan Thomas, 39, Welsh poet, from a cerebral incident;
• November 30 — Francis Picabia, painter, poet
• date not known:
  • Helena Jane Coleman
  • George Herbert Clarke

See also

Poetry portal

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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
2. ^ Christensen, Paul, Web page titled "Charles Olson's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
3. ^ ^{a b} 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