This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Years in literature:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Decades in poetry:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 2.1 Criticism, scholarship and biography 3 Awards and honors 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also 7 References

Events

• Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time to the novelist John Clellon Holmes
• September — The body of William Butler Yeats who died in Menton, France in 1939, is moved from its original burial place Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to Drumcliffe, County Sligo, in accordance with his last wish. This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order Events Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbe's The Borough Vladimir Nabokov becomes 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 Yannis Ritsos, incarcerated in a Greek concentration camp writes poems which will finally be published in 1975 in the book Petrinos khronos Events Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay Projective Verse. Events Poet Cid Corman began Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned 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 The year 1949 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1950 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1951 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 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. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century 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. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Jack Kerouac ( March 12 1922 &ndash October 21 1969) was an American Novelist, Writer, Poet, and John Clellon Holmes ( March 12, 1926 - March 30, 1988) born in Holyoke Massachusetts, was a writer poet and professor As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade &mdash W The Irish Naval Service corvette L. E. Macha carried the remains. Yeats' grave is a famous attraction in Sligo.
• Di Goldene Keyt, an Israeli literary quarterly, founded
• The Bollingen Prize is established by Paul Mellon, and was funded by a $10,000 grant from the Bollingen Foundation to the Library of Congress. 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 Paul Mellon KBE ( June 11 1907 &ndash February 1 1999) was an American Philanthropist, Thoroughbred racehorse In 1945 Paul Mellon and his wife Mary Conover Mellon provided funding for the Bollingen Foundation, which they named for Carl Jung 's country home in Bollingen The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress

Works published

• James K. Baxter, Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness, New Zealand
• John Berryman, The Dispossessed (New York: William Sloan Associates)
• Sir John Betjeman, Selected Poems
• Charles Brasch: Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand^[1]
• Lawrence Durrell, On Seeming to Presume
• T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
• Robert Graves, The White Goddess, a "historical grammar" of poetic myth and inspiration
• John Heath-Stubbs, The Swarming of the Bees
• Randall Jarrell, Losses
• Olga Kirsch, Mure van die Hart, Afrikaans
• William Meredith, Ships and Other Figures
• Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos
• Derek Walcott, 25 Poems
• William Carlos Williams:
  • Paterson, Book II
  • Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia

Criticism, scholarship and biography

• A. James Keir Baxter ( June 29, 1926 &mdash October 22, 1972) was a Poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society 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 John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) ( October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American Sir John Betjeman, CBE ( 28 August 1906 &ndash 19 May 1984 was an English poet writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who Charles Orwell Brasch ( 27 July 1909 - 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet literary editor and arts patron 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 Lawrence George Durrell ( February 27, 1912 &ndash November 7, 1990) was an expatriate British Novelist, Poet, Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Robert Graves (24 July 1895 &ndash 7 December 1985 was an English Poet, Translator and Novelist. John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE ( 9 July 1918 - 26 December[[ 006]] was an English Poet and Translator, known Randall Jarrell ( May 06, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was a United States Poet, Novelist, Critic Olga Kirsch (1924&ndash1997 was a South African and Israeli Poet. William Morris Meredith Jr ( January 9, 1919 - May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indies poet playwright writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. William Carlos Williams ( 17 September 1883 &ndash 4 March 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism Paterson is a Poem by influential modern American poet William Carlos Williams. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revised in 1978^[2]
• Richard Ellmann, Yeats, The Man And The Mask, United States, biography^[2]

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize for Literature: T. S. Eliot
• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Leonie Adams appointed this year. The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Events L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, Richard Ellmann ( March 15 1918 – May 13 1987) was a prominent American / British Literary critic and Biographer The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. 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 Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 &ndash 27 June 1988 was an American Poetess.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Percy MacKaye

Births

• January 31 — Albert Goldbarth
• March 5 — Leslie Marmon Silko, Native American writer, a figure in what has been called the Native American Renaissance
• April 6 — Anna Couani, Australian poet and teacher
• May 24 — Lorna Crozier, Canadian poet
• May 29 — David Waltner-Toews, Canadian poet, writer, veterinary epidemiologist
• August 1 — Frank Stanford (died 1978), American poet
• September 18 — Barrett Watten an American poet
• October 7 — Diane Ackerman an American author, poet, and naturalist
• October 18 — Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay) née Paulette Williams, an African American playwright, performance artist, writer and poet
• date not known:
  • R. S. Gwynn, American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism
  • Lawrence Joseph, American poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer, and law professor
  • Brian Henderson (writer)
  • Yitzhak Laor, Israeli poet, author, and journalist
  • David Lehman, series editor for The Best American Poetry book series and American poet
  • Anna Mioduchowska
  • John Oughton
  • Sherod Santos
  • Heather McHugh
  • Frank Stanford, American poet (died 1978)

Deaths

• May 22 — Claude McKay, Jamaican writer, humanist, Communist, and part of the Harlem Renaissance
• August 31 — Andrei Zhdanov, 52, Soviet government official and persecutor of poets, writers and artists; until the late 1950s, Zhdanovism, defined cultural production in the Soviet Union; reducing permissible culture to a straightforward, scientific chart, where a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value; Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that "incorrect art" was an ideological diversion^[3]
• December 13 — Michael Roberts, 46, British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, and teacher
• date not known:
  • Gordon Bottomley, English poet, known for his verse dramas

See also

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

References

1. ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [[2008
2. ^ ^{a b} "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
3. ^ Stites, Richard. The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W The Age of Anxiety A Baroque Eclogue (1947 first UK edition 1948 is a long Poem in six parts by W The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, or "Academy Fellowship" was the first award of its kind in the United States Percy MacKaye (1875–1956 was an American Dramatist and Poet. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31 1948 in Chicago Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of the Laguna The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong The Native American Renaissance was a term originally coined by critic Kenneth Lincoln in his 1983 book of the same title Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus Anna Couani Australian literature began soon after the settlement of the country by Europeans Common themes include indigenous and settler identity alienation exile and relationship Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Lorna Crozier (born 24 May 1948) is a Canadian Poet. She began writing under the name of Lorna Uher. Canadian poetry is Poetry written in Canada, by Canadians There are three distinct branches of Canadian poetry French-Canadian poetry (mostly written Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the David Waltner-Toews (1948- is a Canadian Epidemiologist, essayist poet fiction writer Veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Frank Stanford ( August 1, 1948 &ndash June 3, 1978) was a prolific American Poet. Events L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Barrett James Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and Educator often associated with the Language The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Diane Ackerman (born October 7 1948) is an American Author, Poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay (born October 18 1948) is an African American Playwright, dancer actor director The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong RS Gwynn is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong New Formalism is a late-twentieth and early twenty-first century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and Rhymed verse Lawrence Joseph (b 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, US) is an American Poet, Writer, The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Brian Henderson is a Canadian Writer and Poet whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Yitzhak Laor, (b 1948 is an Israeli Poet, Author, and Journalist. David Lehman (born 1948 in New York City is the series editor for The Best American Poetry series and a Poet. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Heather McHugh (born 1948 is an American Poet. She was born in San Diego California, but was raised in Virginia. Frank Stanford ( August 1, 1948 &ndash June 3, 1978) was a prolific American Poet. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов ( Mariupol', &ndash August 31, 1948 Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. Claude McKay ( September 15, 1889 May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican Writer and Poet. The Harlem Renaissance was named after the anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke in 1925 Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов ( Mariupol', &ndash August 31, 1948 The Zhdanov Doctrine (also called zhdanovism or zhdanovschina, Russian: доктрина Жданова ждановизм ждановщина was a Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life Michael Roberts ( William Edward Roberts) ( 6 December 1902 - 13 December 1948) was an English poet writer critic and broadcaster The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Gordon Bottomley (1874 – 1948 was an English poet known particularly for his Verse dramas He was partly disabled by illness The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Verse drama is any Drama written as verse to be spoken another possible general term is poetic drama. 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 Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Soviet Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press: 1992. 117.

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