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1954 in poetry

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Events

  • January 25 – Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio.
  • February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
  • Spring – Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review.Everett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
  • Publication of American literary theorist William K. Wimsatt's collected essays Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry, including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley.{{cite book|author1=Leitch, Vincent B.|author2=Cain, William E.|author3=Finke, Laurie A.|author4=Johnson, Barbara E.|author5=McGowan, John|author6=Williams, Jeffrey J.|chapter=William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley|editor=Leitch, Vincent B.|title=The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism|url=https://archive.org/details/nortonanthologyo00vinc|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|year=2001|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nortonanthologyo00vinc/page/1371 1371–1374]|isbn=9780393974294 }}
  • Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.

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]]=

  • Daryl Hine, Five PoemsGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  • Irving Layton, In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press."[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.
  • Irving Layton, The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press.[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.
  • Jay Macpherson, O Earth Return
  • P. K. Page, The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, CanadaWeb page titled [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/page/pub.htm "Canadian Poets / P. K. Page, Published Works"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418072137/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/page/pub.htm |date=2009-04-18 }}, at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009
  • Raymond Souster, A Dream That Is Dying. Toronto: Contact Press"[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.
  • Raymond Souster, Walking Death. Toronto: Contact Press.
  • F. R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press."[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/pub.htm F.R. Scott: Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408081000/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/pub.htm |date=2013-04-08 }}," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  • A. J. M. Smith, A Sort of Ecstasy; Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press.

=[[Indian poetry|India]], [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]=

  • Sri Aurobindo:
  • Collected Poems (Poetry in English), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramR. Saraswathi, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7fsLY0b5aJAC "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri"], p 64, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, {{ISBN|81-7625-111-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
  • Savitri ( Poetry in English ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramR. Saraswathi, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7fsLY0b5aJAC "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri"], p 63, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, {{ISBN|81-7625-111-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
  • R. de L. Furtado, The Centre, Hamilton, Ontario: Cromlech Press; Indian author published in CanadaLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 439, 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")
  • Nizamat Jung, Poems (Poetry in English), edited and published by Zahir Ahmed in HyderabadVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)], p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • Prithwi Singh Nahar, The Wind of Silence (Poetry in English), songs, sonnets and other poems; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo AshramVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)], p 322, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010
  • C. Raju, This Modern Age, foreword by Amarnath Jha
  • K. S. R. Sastry, A Vision of India, Madras: Raja Power PressVinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965)], p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved August 6, 2010

=[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=

==Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom==

  • P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United KingdomPreminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353
  • G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom
  • W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom
  • Jon Silkin, The Peaceable Kingdom, including "Death of a Son (who died in a mental hospital aged one)"
  • Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishers

=[[American poetry|United States]]=

  • Léonie Adams, PoemsLudwig, 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)
  • W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
  • Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923–1953
  • E. E. Cummings, Poems, 1923–1954
  • Babette Deutsch, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
  • Anthony Hecht, A Summoning of Stones
  • Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales
  • Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield and Other Poems
  • Weldon Kees, Poems 1947–1954
  • Archibald MacLeish, Songs for Eve
  • W. S. Merwin, The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4676 "W. S. Merwin (1927- )"] at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest
  • Marianne Moore, The Fables of La Fontaine
  • Howard Moss, The Toy Fair
  • Kenneth Patchen, The Famous Boating Party
  • May Swenson, Another Animal
  • Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, includes "The Rock," previously unpublished section including "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour," "The Rock," "The Planet on the Table," and "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"), KnopfWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6576 "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.
  • E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner
  • William Carlos Williams, The Desert Music and Other Poems

==Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States==

  • Hugh Kenner, Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook, criticism, United States
  • W. C. Williams, Selected Essays, criticism, United StatesPreminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 66

=Other=

  • Martin Carter, Poems of Resistance, Guyana[https://books.google.com/books?id=-jzJb96uTdQC&dq=Timeline+poetry&pg=PR17 "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry"] in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-313-31747-7}}, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
  • Wilson Harris, Eternity to Season, Guyana
  • Frank Prince, Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems, South African
  • Keith Sinclair, Strangers or Beasts: Poems, New Zealand

Works published in other languages

=French language=

==[[Canadian poetry|Canada]], in French==

  • Jean-Guy Pilon, Les cloîtres de l'été, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled [http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jeanguy_pilon.html "Jean-Guy Pilon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164351/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jeanguy_pilon.html |date=2011-07-06 }} at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010

==[[French poetry|France]]==

  • Louis Aragon, Les Yeux et la memoireAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 {{ISBN|0-394-52197-8}}
  • Jean Cocteau, Clair–obscurBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  • René Daumal, Poésie noire, poésie blanche, posthumously published (died 1944)
  • Jean Follain, Appareil de la terre
  • Jean Grosjean, Fils de l'homme
  • Henri Michaux, Face au verrous

=[[Indian poetry|India]]=

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

==[[Hindi poetry|Hindi]]==

  • Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhanDas, Sisir Kumar and various, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2], 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, {{ISBN|978-81-7201-798-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
  • Namvar Singh, Chayavad, literary criticism that offers a radically new interpretation of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry; shows the social foundations of Hindi romanticism and its ties to the progressive movement that followed it
  • Premchand, Sahitya Ka Uddesya, literary essays; published posthumously

==[[Malayalam poetry|Malayalam]]==

==[[Urdu poetry|Urdu]]==

  • Gian Chand Jain, {{transliteration|ur|Urdu ki nasri dastanen}}, literary criticism on classical Urdu fiction ("dastan"), written in that language
  • Jigar Brelvi, Payam-i Savitri, a narrative poem on Savitri, a figure from Hindu mythology; Urdu
  • Masood Husain Khan, Urdu zaban aur adab, critical study on the Urdu language and literature

==Other languages of the Indian subcontinent==

=Other languages=

  • Simin Behbahani, Ja-ye Pa ("Footprint"), Persia
  • José Santos Chocano, Obras completas, {{not a typo|pról}}. de Luis Alberto Sánchez Madrid, Aguilar, Peruvian poetry published in SpainWeb page titled [http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm "José Santos Chocano"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm |date=August 23, 2012 }} at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
  • Haim Gouri, Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli writing in Hebrew{{cite web|url=http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-10-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024232/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 |archivedate=2007-09-30 }} Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
  • Sorley MacLean, Hallaig, Scottish Gaelic (in Gairm 8){{cite web|url=http://www.sorleymaclean.org/english/poetry_periodicals.htm|title=Poetry in Periodicals and Anthologies|work=Sorley MacLean|accessdate=2011-04-01}}
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, La meglio gioventù, Friulian language published in Italy
  • Maria Luisa Spaziani, Le acque del sabato, Italy
  • Wisława Szymborska, {{lang|pl|Pytania zadawane sobie}} ("Questioning Yourself"), Poland
  • Tin Ujević, Žedan kamen na studencu ("Thirsty stone at the wellspring"), Croatian

Awards and honors

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths

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See also

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