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Events March – Japanese poet Sadako Kurihara's "Bringing Forth New Life" (生ましめんかな, Umashimen-kana) is published. Publication this year of her first collection, The Black Egg (Kuroi tamago), is permitted during the occupation of Japan only in abridged form because of its treatment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima experienced by the poet. May 20 – W. H. Auden becomes a United States citizen. Ezra Pound is brought back to the United States on treason charges but found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remains for 12 years (to 1958). Upon learning about Isaiah Berlin's visit to Russian poet Anna Akhmatova this year, Joseph Stalin's associate Andrei Zhdanov, with the approval of the Soviet Central Committee, issues the "Zhdanov decree" denouncing her as a "half harlot, half nun", and has her poems banned from publication. This resolution is directed against two literary magazines, Zvezda and Leningrad, which have published supposedly apolitical, "bourgeois", individualistic works of Akhmatova and the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko. In time Akhmatova's son will spend his youth in Stalinist gulags and she will resort to publishing several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release. Takashi Matsumoto founds a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in Japan. Martin Starkie founds Oxford University Poetry Society in Oxford, England.
MacSpaunday Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco, first published this year, invents the name "MacSpaunday" to designate a composite figure made up of the poets Louis MacNeice ("Mac") Stephen Spender ("sp") W. H. Auden ("au-n") Cecil Day-Lewis ("day") Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period, imagines the four as a group of like-minded poets, although they share little but very broadly left-wing views.
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:
Canada Louis Dudek. East of the City. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1946."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Robert Finch, Poems.Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Wilson MacDonald, Armand Dussault. Toronto: Macmillan.Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. P. K. Page, As Ten As Twenty.Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 A. J. M. Smith, ed. Seven Centuries of Verse.
India, in English Anilbaran, Songs from the Soul (Poetry in English), Calcutta: Amiya LibraryVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 319, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya: Edgeways and the Saint (Poetry in English) a farce; Bombay: Nalanda PublicationsVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 316, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 The Son of Adam (Poetry in English), Bombay: Padma Publications Nolini Kanta Gupta, East Beams (Poetry in English),Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 P. R. Kaikini, Selected Poems (Poetry in English), BombayVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), , retrieved August 6, 2010 H. G. Rawlinson, editor, Garland of Indian Poetry (Poetry in English), London: Royal India Society; anthology; Indian poetry published in the United KingdomJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19. S. H. Vatsyayana, Prison Days and Other Poems (Poetry in English), Benares: Indian Publishers
New Zealand Allen Curnow, Jack Without Magic (Caxton), New ZealandAllen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Kendrick Smithyman, Seven Sonnets, Auckland: Pelorus Press J. C. Reid, Creative Writing in New Zealand, with two chapters on poetry, scholarship, New ZealandPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
United Kingdom Lilian Bowes Lyon, A Rough Walk Home Rupert Brooke, The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke, comprising the contents of Collected Poems of 1928 and 26 additional poems; published posthumously Roy Campbell, Talking Bronco, South African native living in and published in the United Kingdom Walter De la Mare, The Traveller Lawrence Durrell, Cities, Plains and People Robert Graves, Poems 1938–1945 Fredoon Kabraji, editor, This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages; Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom Maurice Lindsay, editor, Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945 (Faber and Faber) Norman MacCaig, The Inward Eye Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Poems of the East-West Synthesis John Clark Milne, The Orra Loon and Other Poems. Kathleen Raine, Living in Time Herbert Read, Collected Poems Henry Reed, A Map of Verona, including "Naming of Parts" Vita Sackville-West, The Garden Sydney Goodsir Smith, The Devil's Waltz Bernard Spencer, Aegean Islands and Other Poems Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances, including "Fern Hill" and "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" R. S. Thomas, The Stones of the Fields
United States Stephen Vincent Benét, The Last CircleLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) (Houghton Mifflin) Elizabeth Bishop, North & South (Houghton Mifflin) Owen Dodson, Powerful Long Ladder H.D., "The Flowering of the Rod", the final part of Trilogy, a three-part poem on the experience of the blitz in wartime London John Gould Fletcher, The Burning Mountain Denise Levertov, The Double Image Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle, New York: Harcourt, BraceM. 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 Phyllis McGinley, Stones from a Glass House James Merrill, The Black Swan (won Glascock Prize) Josephine Miles, Local Measures Howard Moss, The Wound and the Weather Lorine Niedecker, New Goose, her first poetry collection Kenneth Patchen, Sleepers Awake Edouard Roditi, translator, Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares, translated from the original French of André Breton; publisher: View Mark Van Doren, The Country New Year William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book I Reed Whittemore, Heroes & Heroines
Other in English Roy Campbell, Talking Bronco, South African native published in the United Kingdom Denis Devlin, Lough Derg and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United States James McAuley, Under Aldebaran, Australia
Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
France Yves Bonnefoy, Traité du pianiste Jean Cayrol, Poems de la nuit et du brouillardBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Aimé Césaire, Les armes miraculeuses, Martinique poet published in France;Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Paris: Gallimard René Char, Feuillets d'Hypnos Paul Éluard, Le dur désir de durer Léon-Paul Fargue, Méandres Jean Hervé, Jour, winner of the Prix Apollinaire Francis Jammes, La GrâceWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. Pierre Jean Jouve, La Vierge de Paris poems from The Resistance Alphonse Métérié, Vétiver Jacques Prévert, Paroles Saint-John Perse: Exil, suivi de Poème à l'etrangère, Pluies, Neiges Vents, Paris: GallimardWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Philippe Soupault, L'Arme secrète Jules Supervielle, 1939–1945 Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Terre sur Terre
Indian subcontinent Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. And also from the country Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Hindi Girija Kumar Mathur, Nas aur Nirman, poems of the Pragativadi schoolDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Ramadhari Singh Dinkar, Kuruksetra, narrative poem based on the Santi Parva of the Mahabharata Rangeya Raghava, Pighlate Patthar, poems with a strong Marxist influence
Kannada G. B. Joshi, Dattavani, critical appraisal of the poems of Kannada poet D. R. Bendre K. V. Puttappa, Prema Kasmira, 56 love poems V. K. Gokak, Indina Kannada Kavyada Gottugurialu, critical survey of modern poetry in Kannada
Kashmiri Mirza Arif, Laila Wa Mustafa, a masnavi Shamas-ud Din Kafoor, Nendre Lotuyae Yoot Koetah, a vatsun poem on the poverty of Kashmiri peasants; the work first appeared in Hamdard, a weekly periodical, and was later included in Payame Kafoor Abdul Ahad Azad, Shikwa-e-Iblis, a complaint about unquestioning social conformity
Tamil P. S. Subrahmaniya Shastri, Vatamoli Nul Varalaru, literary history of Sanskrit literature, written in Tamil R. P. Sethu Pillai, Kiristuvat Tamilttontar, Tamil-language literary history on the contributions of Christian scholars, including Beschi, Pope, Caldwell and Vitanayakam Pillai to that language's literature and culture V. R. M. Chettiyar, Nanku Kavimanikal, Tamil biographical and critical study of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore and the Tamil poet Kambar (poet), also known as "Kampan" (1180–1250)
Other Indian languages Akhtarul Imam, Tarik Sayyara; Urdu-language Amrita Pritan, Pathar Gite; Punjabi-language Bayabhav, also known as Kashinath Shridhar Naik, Sadeavelim Fulam, Konkani Buddhadeb Basu, Kaler Putul, an essay of literary criticism in Bengali of poets and their work after Rabindranath Tagore Chaganti Seshaiah, Andhra Kavi Tarangini, first volume in a 10-volume literary history written in the Telugu language (the last volume came out in 1953) Chandrasinha, Sip, nine works of poetic prose in Rajasthani Dinu Bhai Pant, Mangu Di Chabila, Dogri narrative poem on bonded laborers exploited by village money lenders