This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Years in literature:	1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Decades in poetry:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also 7 References

Events

• Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbe's The Borough
• Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States
• March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order Events George Oppen joins the US Army Works published John Berryman, Poems Events Ottawa native Elizabeth Smart moves permanently to England Events Works published in English United Kingdom W H Auden, For the Time Being A Christmas Oratorio Events W H Auden becomes a US citizen Ezra Pound brought back to the United States on treason charges but found unfit to face trial Events Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time Events Sometime this year Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books Decades and years Decades and years Decades and years A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The 1910s decade ran from January 1 1910 through December 31 1919 The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate Edward Benjamin Britten Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 was an English Composer, conductor, George Crabbe ( 24 December 1754 - 3 February 1832) was an English Poet and naturalist. This page is about the novelist For his father the politician see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Pablo Neruda ( July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and later legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile 's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile He officially joined the Communist Party of Chile four months later. The Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile is a Chilean political party that advocates Communism.
• April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, were on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crushed them and then shoved them, still living, into a mass grave. The Jewish Ghetto in Kraków (Cracow was one of the five main ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the General Government during their Soon after, a group of prisoners passed them, including a cousin of theirs. From their hiding place in her clothes, Henia Karmel ripped out some poems she and her sister had written and handed them to her cousin to give to her husband, Leon, back in Krakow. The cousin did deliver the poems, and the sisters were also saved by a nearby farmer who took them to a hospital. Henia wrote in 1947, "these poems are real, not just scribblings. [they] came about when I was still creating myself, experiencing the pain of separation. How I could have survived, you might ask? If so, sir, you know nothing of life. It lasted, that’s all. " Henia wrote in her poem, "Snapshots": "My name is Number 906. / And guess what? I still write verse. "^[1]
• May 2, 1945, Ezra Pound was arrested by Italian partisans, and taken (according to Hugh Kenner) "to their HQ in Chiavari, where he was soon released as possessing no interest. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate Hugh Kenner ( January 7, 1923 &ndash November 24, 2003) was a Canadian Literary Scholar, Critic Chiavari is a town on the Italian Riviera in the Province of Genoa, region of Liguria. " The next day, he turned himself in to U. S. forces. He was incarcerated in a United States Army detention camp outside Pisa, spending 25 days in an open cage before being given a tent. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the Arno River on the Ligurian Sea. Here he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown. While in the camp he drafted the Pisan Cantos, a section of the work in progress which marks a shift in Pound's work, being a meditation on his own and Europe's ruin and on his place in the natural world. The Pisan Cantos won the first Bollingen Prize from the Library of Congress in 1948. The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long incomplete Poem in 120 sections each of which is a Canto. The Bollingen Prize, which is presently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on an American Poet Events Sometime this year Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground
• June — Australia's most celebrated literary hoax takes place when Angry Penguins is published with poems by the fictional Ern Malley. Angry Penguins, an Australian literary and artistic Avant-garde movement of the 1940s stimulated by a Modernist magazine of the same name published by Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley ( April 14, 1918 - July 23, 1943 was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax Poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart created the poems from lines of other poems and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. James Phillip McAuley ( 12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian Academic, Poet, Journalist Harold Frederick Stewart (14 December 1916 - 7 August 1995 was an Australian author and poet The hoax was played on Max Harris, then a 22-year-old avant garde poet and critic who had started the modernist magazine, Angry Penguins. Max Harris AO (13 April 1921 &ndash 13 January 1995 was an Australian poet critic columnist commentator publisher and bookseller Angry Penguins, an Australian literary and artistic Avant-garde movement of the 1940s stimulated by a Modernist magazine of the same name published by Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely-unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australia. The Autumn 1944 edition of the magazine with the poems came out in mid-1945 due to wartime printing delays. An Australian newspaper uncovered the hoax within weeks. McAuley and Stewart loved early Modernist poets but despised later modernism and especially the well-funded Angry Penguins and were jealous of Harris's precocious success. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

Works published

• W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
• Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville
• Allen Curnow, editor, A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923–45 (Caxton), New Zealand^[2]
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Tribute to the Angels", second part of Trilogy (1944–46) about the experience of the Blitz in wartime London
• T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
• Denis Glover, The Wind and the Sand, New Zealand^[3]
• Elizabeth Smart, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" (prose poem)
• Randall Jarrell, Little Friend, Little Friend, including "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", New York: Dial Press^[4]
• Philip Larkin, The North Ship, London: Dent^[4]
• Alun Lewis, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, posthumously published

Awards

• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Louise Bogan appointed this year. Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks ( June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an Pulitzer Prize- winning African-American Poet Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE ( June 17, 1911 – September 23, 2001) was a New Zealand Poet and New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but HD (September 10 1886 – September 27 1961 born Hilda Doolittle, was an American poet, Novelist and Memoirist She is best known Events Works published in English United Kingdom W H Auden, For the Time Being A Christmas Oratorio Events W H Auden becomes a US citizen Ezra Pound brought back to the United States on treason charges but found unfit to face trial London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T S Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943 Lieutenant Commander Denis James Matthews Glover DSC ( 9 December 1912 - 9 August 1980) was a New Zealand New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but Elizabeth Smart ( December 27, 1913 &ndash March 4, 1986) was a Canadian Poet and Novelist. Randall Jarrell ( May 06, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was a United States Poet, Novelist, Critic Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 was an English Poet, Novelist and Jazz Alun Lewis ( July 1, 1915 - March 5, 1944) was a Poet of the Anglo-Welsh school The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35000 a year Louise Bogan ( August 11, 1897 - February 4, 1970) was an American Poet. She would serve until sometime in 1946.

• Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems

Births

• January 14 — Stephen Morse, American poet
• February 23 — Robert Gray, Australian poet
• April 2 — Anne Waldman, American poet
• April 30 — Annie Dillard, American poet and 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner
• June 21 — Adam Zagajewski Polish poet, novelist, and essayist
• July 21 — Wendy Cope, English poet
• August 13 — Tom Wayman, Canadian poet and academic
• date not known:
  • Terry Blackhawk
  • Marianne Bluger
  • Syl Cheyney-Coker
  • W. The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author Karl Jay Shapiro (b November 10 1913, Baltimore Maryland – d Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Stephen Morse (born January 14, 1945, Oakland California) is an American poet and publisher The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Robert William Geoffrey Gray (b February 23, 1945) is an Australian Poet, Freelance writer, and Critic. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American Author, best known for her The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Adam Zagajewski (b 21 June 1945 in Lwów, Soviet Union (now Lviv Ukraine) is a Polish poet novelist and essayist Polish poetry has a centuries old history similar to the Polish literature. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Wendy Cope (born on 21 July, 1945 in Erith) is an award-winning contemporary English Poet. The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Thomas Ethan Wayman (born 13 August 1945) is a Canadian Poet and Academic. Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written S. Di Piero
  • Norman Dubie, American poet
  • Calvin Forbes
  • Ellen Jaffe
  • Bernadette Mayer, American poet
  • J.D. McClatchy, gay American poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review. Norman Dubie (born April 10, 1945) is a major American Poet. Born in Barre Vermont, Dubie is the author of over eighteen books The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Bernadette Mayer (born May 12, 1945) in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a Poet and Prose writer The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong JD "Sandy" McClatchy (1945- is an American Poet, Literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Literary criticism is the study discussion evaluation and interpretation of Literature. The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary quarterly in the United States.
  • Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Alice Notley, American poet

Deaths

• January 15 — Ursula Bethell, New Zealand
• January 22 — Else Lasker-Schuler, 75, poet
• March 20 — Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
• May 15 — Charles Williams, British writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
• June 8 — Robert Desnos, was a French surrealist poet. Carol Muske-Dukes (born in St Paul Minnesota in 1945 is an American poet Alice Notley (born 8 November, 1945) is an American Poet. She was born in Bisbee Arizona and grew up in Needles California The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Franz Werfel ( September 10, 1890 &ndash August 26, 1945) was an Austrian - Bohemian Novelist Playwright Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Else Lasker-Schüler ( February 11, 1869 &ndash January 22, 1945) was a Jewish German Poet and playwright Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas ( 22 October 1870 &ndash 20 March 1945) was a Poet, a Translator and a Prose Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Charles Walter Stansby Williams ( September 20, 1886 – May 15, 1945) was a British Poet, Novelist, Theologian The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Robert Desnos ( 4 July 1900 - 8 June 1945) was a French Surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other Languages of Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members
• July 20 — Paul Valéry, French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet
• August 26 — Franz Werfel (born 1890), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
• December 14 — Maurice Baring, versatile English man of letters: a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
• date not known:
  • Capel Boake

See also

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

References

1. ^ "Book Notes" column, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2008, accessed April 17, 2008, a capsule review by Lilah Hegnauerof A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, by Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California Press, 2007
2. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
3. ^ "Denis Glover" article in The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
4. ^ ^{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

Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (French pɔl valeˈʁi October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French Poet French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other Languages of Symbolism, as a type and movement in poetry emphasized non-structured "internalized" poetry that for lack of better words describe thoughts and feelings in disconnected ways Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Franz Werfel ( September 10, 1890 &ndash August 26, 1945) was an Austrian - Bohemian Novelist Playwright Events Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published Austrian literature is the literature written in Austria which is mostly but not exclusively written in the German language. Bohemian literature is Literature of Bohemians (also known as Czechs, in Bohemian Češi or Čechové) and also literature written Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Maurice Baring ( 27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English Man of letters, known as a dramatist poet novelist The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day This is a list of awards that are or have been given out to writers of Poetry, either for a specific poem collection of poems or body of work This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order The Virginia Quarterly Review is a Literary magazine in the United States. Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Fanny Howe (born 1940 in Boston Massachusetts is an American Poet, Novelist and Short story writer Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

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