Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time). In the ensuing Invasion of Normandy English soldier-poet Keith Douglas is killed; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem "Walking Wounded" (1965) and is wounded; and, during lulls in the fighting, Dennis B. Wilson is writing the poem that will be published as Elegy of a Common Soldier in 2012. October 2 – Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend and fellow Welsh poet Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up.
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 E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry, revised edition (scholarship), CanadaPreminger, 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 Ralph Gustafson, editor, Canadian Accent, anthologyGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books A. M. Klein: The Hitleriad Poems Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night. Toronto: Ryerson."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Governor General's Award 1944. E. J. Pratt, Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Toronto: Macmillan."Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208. Ronald Hambleton, editor Unit of five: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P. K. Page, Raymond Souster, James Wreford, anthology, Toronto: Ryerson Press, CanadaWeb page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works" , at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
India, in English Harindranath Chattopadhyay: Blood of Stones ( Poetry in English ), including "On the Pavement of Calcutta", a realistic description of suffering in the Bengal famine of 1943;Das, 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 Bombay: Padma 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 Lyrics ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Padma Publications Nolini Kanta Gupta, To the Height ( 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 Humayun Kabir, Mahatma and Other Poems( Poetry in English ); except for the title poem "Mahatama", inspired by the Quit India Movement, and "Rabindranath Tagore", the other poems are reprinted from the author's Poems 1932 Fredoon Kabraji, A Minor Georgian's Swan Song ( Poetry in English ), Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Indian poet published in the United KingdomLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p. 238, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") P. R. Kaikini, Look On Undaunted ( 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. D. Sethna, Struggling Heights ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Karnatak Publishing House Subho Tagore: Flames of Passion ( Poetry in English ), love poems in verse and in the form of prose poems; Calcutta: Susil Gupta Ltd. Rubble, translated by Nilima Devi into English from the original Bengali; Calcutta: The Futurist Publishing House
United Kingdom Drummond Allison, The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43, posthumous W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, English poet living and publishing in the United States George Barker, Eros in Dogma Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems John Betjeman, New Bats in Old Belfries Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems Edmund Blunden, Shells by a Stream Alex Comfort, Elegies Crown and Sickle poetry anthology in Britain, featuring poets in the New Apocalyptics movement Walter De la Mare, Collected Rhymes and Verses Patric Dickinson, The Seven Days of Jericho T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, contains "Burnt Norton" (first published 1936 and again 1941), "East Coker" (1940), "The Dry Salvages" (1941), "Little Gidding" (1942) Roy Fuller, A Lost Season W. S. Graham, The Seven Journeys Robert Greacen, Northern Harvest and One Recent Evening, Northern Ireland poet J. F. Hendry, and Henry Treece, editors, The Crown and Sickle, anthology Laurie Lee, The Sun My Monument John Lehmann, The Sphere of Glass, and Other Poems Louis MacNeice, Springboard R. P. L. Mogg, For This Alone, and Other Poems Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason John Pudney, Almanack of Hope Herbert Read, A World Within a War Lynette Roberts, Poems E. J. Scovell, Shadows of Chrysanthemums, and Other Poems William Soutar, The Expectant Silence A. P. Wavell (comp.), Other Men's Flowers, anthology Charles Williams, The Region of the Summer Stars
United States Franklin P. Adams, Nods and BecksLudwig, 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) Conrad Aiken, The Soldier W. H. Auden, For the Time Being E. E. Cummings, 1 X 1 Babette Deutsch, Take Them, Stranger Hilda Doolittle, writing under the pen name "H.D.", The Walls Do Not Fall, first part of Trilogy (1944–46) on the blitz in war-time London Stanley J. Kunitz, Passport to the War Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness, Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington PressM. 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 William Meredith, Love Letter from an Impossible Land Marianne Moore, Nevertheless Kenneth Rexroth, The Phoenix and the Tortoise Muriel Rukeyser, Beast in View Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems Jesse Stuart, Album of Destiny Mark Van Doren, Seven Sleepers Louise Varèse, translator, Eloges and Other Poems, translated from the original French of Saint-John Perse; introduction by Archibald MacLeish, New York: NortonWeb page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, 1923—1943 William Carlos Williams: Collected Later PoemsRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, The Wedge
Other in English James K. Baxter, Beyond the Palisade, his first volume of poetry, New Zealand Seaforth Mackenzie, The Moonlit Doorway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson; Australia Kenneth Slessor, One Hundred Poems, 1919-1939, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 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 Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composes au secretBree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Robert Desnos, ContréeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Paul Éluard, Au Rendez-vous allemand Pierre Jean Jouve, Pour les Ombres Lausanne, Switzerland: Cahiers de Poésie French poet published in SwitzerlandCady, Andrea, Measuring the visible: the verse and prose of Philippe Jaccottet, p 32, Editions Rodopi, 1992, retrieved via Google Books on August 20, 2009 Alphonse Métérié, Les Cantiques du Frère Michel Saint-John Perse, French poet published in his native language while in exile in Argentina: Pluies, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises (republished in Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard 1945) Quatre poèmes, 1941-1944, Buenos Aires: Les Editions Lettres Françaises (republished as Exil, suivi de Poème à l'étrangère; Pluies; Neiges Paris: Gallimard 1945)
Indian subcontinent Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Gujarati Badarayan, KediMohan, 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, , retrieved December 10, 2008 Umashankar Joshi, Prachina, a "dialogue-poem"
Hindi Anchala Rameshvar Shukla, Lal Cunar, lyrics celebrating love, youth and revolt Girija Kumar Mathur, Manjir, many of these poems have themes of nature and intense love Rangeya Raghav, Ajeya Khandhar, pragativadi-movement poetry about the battle of Stalingrad, depicted to illustrate the human struggle for freedom Shyam Narayan Pandey, Jauhar, depicting the self-sacrifice of Padmini, queen of Chittor, written in a folk style
Other Indian languages A. N. Krishna Rao, Pragati Sila Sahitya, 15 essays in Kannada on the Pragatisila Caluvali (progressive movement) in Indian literature Bhimaraj Bhambiru, also known as "Mangal"; Mumgha Moti, written in doha form, the poems are addressed to an individual Mangala; Rajasthani-language Joseph Mundasseri, written in Malayalam-language: Manadandam, criticism about Indian classical literature, particularly Kalidasa Mattoli, a comparison of three major works of poetry: Kumaran Asan's Karuna, Vallathol's Magdalana Mariyam and Ulloor's Pingala K. V. Puttappa, also known as "Kuvempu", Kogile Mattu Soviet Russia, verses with a focus on the common man, which was pioneering for Kannada poetry of the time; a recurring theme in the poems is rejection of institutionalized religion Kshama Rao, Miralahari, Khanda Kavya poetry on Meera, the medieval Indian saint-poet; Sanskrit-language Mahjoor, Kalam-e-Mahjoor "No. 8", Kashmiri-language ghazals and vatsan's Mohammad Jamil Ahmad, Tazkirah-yi Sha'irat-i Urdu, literary criticism of Urdu-language women poets, with biographical information and selections from their poems Mohammad Mujib, Insha, adab aur adib, Urdu essays in literary criticism Prabhjot Kaur, Palkan Ohle, love poems; Punjabi-language Shrikrishna Powale, Agniparag; Marathi-language Va. Ramaswamy Ayyangar, Makakavi Paratiyar, Tamil biography of the Tamil poet Bharati
Spanish language Delmira Agustini, Poesías, posthumously published (died 1914), prologue by Luisa Luisi (Montevideo, Claudio García & Co., UruguayWeb page titled "Delmira Agustini" at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011