1951 in poetry

1951 in poetry

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Events

* Poet Cid Corman began "Origin" magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically featured one writer per issue and ran, with breaks, until the mid 1980s. Poets featured included Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Denise Levertov, William Bronk, Theodore Enslin, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Gary Snyder, Lorine Niedecker, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Paul Blackburn. The magazine also led to the establishment of Origin Press, which published books by a similar range of poets.
* "Bad Lord Byron", a film directed by David MacDonald about the Romantic poet
* Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, future (1980) winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, becomes an exile this year.
* The Dolmen Press is founded in Dublin, Ireland by Liam and Josephine Miller to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, (the publisher also featured the work of Irish artists). The Press operated in Dublin from 1951 until Liam Miller's death in 1987. [ [http://collections.zsr.wfu.edu:20018/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?page=object&OUTPUTXSL=dolmen.xsl] Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007]

Works published

New Zealand

* James K. Baxter, "Recent Trends in New Zealand Poetry", scholarshipPreminger, 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]
* Allen Curnow, editor, "A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-50", anthology [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Denis Glover, "Sings Harry", New Zealand [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/L/LiteraturePoetry/DenisGlover/en "Denis Glover" article] in "The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* M. H. Holcroft, "Discovered Isles", scholarship
*Louis Johnson:
** Editor, "New Zealand Poetry Yearbook", first annual edition, anthologyPreminger, 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837]
**"The Sun Among the Ruins" [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/L/LiteraturePoetry/TheContemporaryScene/en Web page titled "The Contemporary Scene"] in "An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008]
** "Roughshod Among the Lilies"
* Charles Spear, "Twopence Coloured"
* Hubert Witheford, "The Falcon Mark"


=United Kingdom=

* W. H. Auden, "Nones", including the poem "In Praise of Limestone"
* Basil Bunting, "Seeds", a long poem, published by "Poetry magazine"
* Charles Causley, "Farewell Aggie Weston"
* Peter Mason Opie and Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes"
* "Poems of Today", British poetry anthology, fourth series

United States

* Hugh Kenner, "The Poetry of Ezra Pound", highly influential in causing a re-assessment of Pound's poetry (New Directions), criticism
* Randall Jarrell:
** "Losses", 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]
** "The Seven-League Crutches", New York: Harcourt, Brace
* Robert Lowell, "The Mills of the Kavanaughs", New York: Harcourt, Brace
* James Merrill, "First Poems"
* Clark Ashton Smith, "The Dark Chateau"
* William Carlos Williams:
** "Paterson", Book IV
** "Collected Earlier Poems"

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize in Literature: Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish poet, author, playwright and writer
* Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to E.E. Cummings
* National Book Award for Poetry: Wallace Stevens, "The Auroras of Autumn"
* Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Carl Sandburg, "Complete Poems"
* Bollingen Prize: John Crowe Ransom

Births

* March 12 — Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's author
* March 21 — Lesley Choyce, he is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry
* April 21 — Brigit Pegeen Kelly, American poet and academic, daughter of author Robert Glynn Kelly and married to poet Michael Madonick
* May 9 — Joy Harjo, Native-American poet, musician, and author
* June 20 — Paul Muldoon Irish poet
* September 13 — Suzanne Lummis, American poet and poetry educator/instigator

* date not known:
** Ralph Angel, American poet and translator
** Robin Becker
** Ron Charach
** Peter Christensen (poet)
** James Galvin
** Garrett Hongo, American poet
** Andrew Hudgins
** Peter Johnson (poet)
**
** Betsy Struthers, Canadian poet and novelist
** Robert Priest, Canadian poet and children's author
** Afaa M. Weaver
** Robert Wrigley, American poet
** Eddy Yanofsky
** Ray A. Young

Deaths

* September 18 — Gelett Burgess, 85, American artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist
* December 4 — Pedro Salinas
* dates not known:
** Angelos Sikelianos, Greek
** Hertha Kraftner (born 1928), German [Hofmann, Michael, editor, "Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology", Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006]

Notes

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

References


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