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1951 in poetry

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Events

  • Poet Cid Corman begins Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically features one writer per issue and runs, with breaks, until the mid-1980s. Poets featured include 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 leads to the establishment of Origin Press, which publishes books by a similar range of poets.
  • Bad Lord Byron, a film directed by David MacDonald about the Romantic poet.Web page titled [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading9 "A Time-Line of Poetry in English"] at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
  • Czesław Miłosz, 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 poets and artists. The Press operates 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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123073002/http://collections.zsr.wfu.edu:20018/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?page=object&OUTPUTXSL=dolmen.xsl |date=2007-11-23 }} Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007

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:

=[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=

  • Irving Layton, The Black Huntsmen: Poems. Montreal."[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm Irving Layton: Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm |date=2011-07-14 }}," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
  • Tom MacInnes, In the Old of my AgeGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  • Duncan Campbell Scott, Selected Poems, edited by E. K. Brown
  • A. J. M. Smith, The Worldly Muse
  • Kay Smith, Footnote to the Lord's Prayer and Other Poems
  • Raymond Souster, City Hall Street. Toronto: Ryerson."[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html Notes on Life and Works] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html |date=2011-08-17 }}," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  • Anne Wilkinson, Counterpoint to Sleep

=[[New Zealand literature|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 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
  • Roughshod Among the Lilies
  • Charles Spear, Twopence Coloured
  • Hubert Witheford, The Falcon Mark

=[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=

=[[American poetry|United States]]=

  • W. H. Auden, Nones,Ludwig, 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) English-born poet living and published in the United States
  • John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sorrows of Cold Stone
  • John Ciardi, From Time to Time, including "My Father's Watch"Burt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C&dq=%22The+Chronology+of+American+Literature:+America%27s+Literary+Achievements+from+the+Colonial+Era+to+Modern+Times%22&pg=PP1 The Chronology of American Literature], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books, February 14, 2009
  • Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred, including "Harlem"Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, {{ISBN|0-393-09357-3}}
  • 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
  • Hugh Kenner, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, highly influential in causing a re-assessment of Pound's poetry (New Directions), criticism
  • Robert Lowell, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, New York: Harcourt, Brace
  • James Merrill, First Poems
  • Marianne Moore, Collected Poems, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry in 1952
  • Ogden Nash, Parents Keep Out
  • Adrienne Rich, A Change of World, her first volume, selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets
  • Theodore Roethke, Praise to the End!, 13 long poems about a child's sensibility and developing consciousness
  • Louis Simpson, Good News of Death and Other Poems, Jamaican-born poet living in the United States
  • Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau
  • Jean Toomer, Cane
  • Theodore Weiss, The Catch
  • William Carlos Williams:
  • Paterson, Book IV
  • The Collected Earlier Poems
  • The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

=Other in English=

  • Nagendranath Gupta, editor and translator, Eastern Poetry, Allahabad: Indian Press, second edition, Bombay: Hind Kitabs (first edition 1929), anthology; Indian poetry in EnglishJoshi, Irene, compiler, [http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth "Poetry Anthologies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth |date=2009-08-30 }}, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
  • Louis Simpson, Good News of Death and Other Poems'', Jamaican-born poet living in the United States
  • Rex Ingamells, The Great South Land, Melbourne, a history of Australia from primordial times, Australia[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140607b.htm "Ingamells, Reginald Charles (Rex) (1913 - 1955)"], article, Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition, retrieved May 12, 2009. 2009-05-14.

Works published in other languages

=[[French poetry|France]]=

=[[Indian poetry|India]]=

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

=Other=

  • Simin Behbahani, Seh-tar-e Shekasteh ("The Broken Lute"), Persia
  • Alberto de Lacerda, Poemas, Portugal
  • Hushang Ebtehaj (H. E. Sayeh) سراب ("Mirage"), Persian poet published in Iran
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg, Reḥovot Hanahar ("The Streets of the River"), poems lamenting the loss of Jews in Europe; Hebrew-language, IsraelCarmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 136, Penguin, 1981, {{ISBN|978-0-14-042197-2}}
  • Cesare Pavese, Verrà la morte ed avrà i tuoi occhi ("Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes"), Turin: Einaudi; ItalyWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5278 "Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.

Awards and honors

Births

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Deaths

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See also

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Notes

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