Overview of the events of 1942 in poetry
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March 1 –Marianne Lorraine appears withJohn Serry Sr. atThe Town Hall (New York City) in a performance of poetry byCarl Sandburg andArchibald MacLeish as presented by the Free World Association and sponsored byEleanor Roosevelt .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] March 28 –Spanish poetMiguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 3 –French poetPaul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté " is first published in the collectionPoésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazineFontaine , titled "Une seule pensée", to reachVichy France . It is published byÉditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazineLa France libre . Thousands of copies are parachuted intoOccupied France by aircraft of the BritishRoyal Air Force .[ 4] October –English poetKeith Douglas takes part in theSecond Battle of El Alamein (against orders). December –BIM Barbados .[ 5] American poetGeorge Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army.Preview , a small literary magazine, is founded inCanada (merged withFirst Statement in1945 to formNorthern Review , which lasts until1956 ); it is published byF. R. Scott ,A. J. M. Smith ,A. M. Klein andP. K. Page , led by English-born poet and travel writerPatrick Anderson .[ 6] First Statement , a mimeographed,[ 7] Preview in1945 ); it is published byJohn Sutherland ;[ 6] Irving Layton andLouis Dudek are also involved.[ 7] French poetAndré Breton delivers a lecture entitled "Situation du surealisme entre les deux guerres" at Yale University.[ 8] Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney ,David and Other Poems , the title piece,David , a long, narrative poem, was one of the most frequently taught poems inCanadian schools for decades[ 6] Governor General's Award ,1942 .[ 9] Arthur Bourinot ,Canada at Dieppe .[citation needed Ralph Gustafson ed.,Anthology ofCanadian Poetry , including work byF. R. Scott ,A. M. Klein ,A. J. M. Smith ,Leo Kennedy Archived 2017-09-24 at theWayback Machine ,E. J. Pratt , Finch,Dorothy Livesay ,P. K. Page andEarle Birney ; Penguin[ 7] Anne Marriott ,Salt Marsh , Toronto: Ryerson Press.[ 10] Sri Aurobindo ,Collected Poems and Plays (Poetry & Plays in English), in two volumes,Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram[ 11] Raul De Loyola Furtado , also known asJoseph Furtado ,Selected Poems (Poetry in English),Bombay : published by the author in a limited edition of 100 copies (second edition, revised1947 ; third edition, revised1967 )[ 12] [ 13] P. R. Kaikini ,The Snake in the Moon (Poetry in English),Bombay : New Book Co.[ 14] Poetry in War Time (Poetry in English), London: Faber and Faber; anthology; Indian poetry, published in theUnited Kingdom [ 15] Manjeri Sundaraman ,Penumbra [ 12] Walter de la Mare ,Collected Poems Morwenna Donnelly ,Beauty and Ashes T. S. Eliot ,Little Gidding Four Quartets The New English Weekly Roy Fuller ,The Middle of a War [ 16] W. S. Graham ,Cage Without Grievance [ 16] John Heath-Stubbs ,Wounded Thammuz [ 16] J. F. Hendry ,The Bombed Happiness [ 16] Agnes Grozier Herbertson,This is the Hour: Poems Patrick Kavanagh ,The Great Hunger [ 16] Sidney Keyes ,The Iron Laurel [ 16] Alun Lewis ,Raiders' Dawn, and Other Poems ,[ 16] World War II Robert Nichols ,Such Was My Singing [ 16] Leslie Norris ,Tongue of Beauty William Plomer ,In a Bombed House, 1941: Elegy in Memory of Anthony Butts Poetry in Wartime: An Anthology , edited byTambimuttu , London: Faber and Faber[ 15] John Pudney ,Dispersal Point, and Other Air Poems , including "For Johnny"[ 16] Henry Reed , "Naming of Parts ", part 1 of his "Lessons of the War" sequence, published in theNew Statesman Stevie Smith ,Mother, What is Man? [ 16] Stephen Spender ,Ruins and Visions [ 16] Dorothy Wellesley ,Lost Planet, and Other Poems [ 16] Conrad Aiken ,Brownstone Eclogues [ 17] Stephen Vincent Benét ,They Burned the Books [ 17] John Berryman ,Poems R. P. Blackmur ,The Second World [ 17] John Malcolm Brinnin :The Garden Is Political [ 17] The Lincoln Lyrics [ 17] Malcolm Cowley ,A Dry Season [ 17] Robert Frost ,A Witness Tree [ 17] Langston Hughes ,Shakespeare in Harlem [ 17] Randall Jarrell ,Blood for a Stranger [ 17] Edna St. Vincent Millay ,The Murder of Lidice [ 17] Kenneth Patchen ,The Teeth of the Lion [ 17] Muriel Rukeyser ,Wake Island [ 17] Karl Shapiro :Person, Place and Thing [ 17] The Place of Love [ 17] Wallace Stevens :Parts of a World , includes "The Poems of Our Climate," "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard," and "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War", Knopf[ 18] Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction , Cummington Press[ 18] Mark Van Doren ,Our Lady Peace [ 17] Margaret Walker ,For My People [ 17] Robert Penn Warren ,Eleven Poems on the Same Theme [ 17] Edmund Wilson ,Notebooks of Night [ 17] Works published in other languages [ edit ] Listed by the nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Louis Aragon ,Les Yeux d'Elsa [ 19] René-Guy Cadou :Paul Claudel ,Cent phrases pour éventails Robert Desnos ,Fortunes [ 8] Paul Éluard ,pen name of Paul-Eugène Grindel:Pierre Emmanuel ,pen name of Noël Mathieu,Léon-Paul Fargue ,Refuges [ 8] Jean Follain ,Canisy [ 19] Eugène Guillevic ,Terraqué [ 8] Loys Masson ,Déliverez-nous du mal , war poems[ 19] Alphonse Métérié ,Prix Lasserre [ 19] Henri Michaux ,Au pays de la magie [ 8] Saint-John Perse ,pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger,Exil [ 20] Francis Ponge ,Le parti pris des choses [ 8] prose poems Raymond Queneau ,Pierrot mon ami [ 19] Jean Tortel ,De mon vivant [ 19] Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Other Indian languages [ edit ] Akhtar Ansari Akbarabadi ,Abgine ,Urdu [ 21] Hari Daryani ,Koda ,Sindhi -language (India )[ 21] K. S. Narasimha Swami ,Mysuru Malige ,Indian ,Kannada -language, called "the most famous collection of love poems in Kannada"N. Gopla Pillai ,Sita-Vicara-Lahari , translation intoSanskrit from theMalayalam ofKumaran Asan 's poemCintavistayaya Sita [ 21] Pritam Singh Safir ,Pap de Sohle ,Indian ,Punjabi -language[ 21] Sumitra Kumari Sinha , ' 'Asa Parva' ',Hindi -language (India )[ 21] Chairil Anwar , "Nisan" ("Grave"),Indonesian D. Gwenallt Jones ,Cnoi Cil ,Welsh poet published in the United KingdomErik Lindegren ,Manen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way"),Sweden César Moro , pen name of César Quíspez Asín,La tortuga ecuestre ,Peru [ 22] Pier Paolo Pasolini ,Versi a Casarsa ,Friulian language published inItaly Cesare Pavese ,Lavorare stanca ("Hard Work"), expanded version nearly double the size of the first edition published in1936 ;Italy [ 23] Saint-John Perse ,Exil: poème , Marseilles: Editions Cahiers du Sud;France [ 24] Francis Ponge ,Le parti pris des choses France [ 25] Stella Sierra ,Sinfonía jubilosa en doce sonetos ("Joyful Symphony in Twelve Sonnets"),Panama Hannah Szenes , "A Walk to Caesarea ",Modern Hebrew poetry Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 17 –Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), African-American heavyweight boxer and occasional poet (died2016 ) January 19 –Pat Mora , female Mexican-American author and poet February 14 –Rafiq Azad ,Bengali poet, editor and academic (died2016 ) February 20 –Hugo Williams ,English poet, journalist and travel writer February 22 –Peter Abbs ,English poet and academic (died2020 ) February 23 –Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee), African-American poet, author and academic March 13 –Mahmoud Darwish , Palestinian poet and prose writer March 26 –Erica Jong ,American author and poet April 10 –Stuart Dybek ,American poet and author April 27 –Sadakazu Fujii 藤井 貞和,Japanese poet and literary scholar (surname: Fujii) May 22 –Souad al-Sabah ,Kuwaiti poet and writer June 7 –Aonghas MacNeacail ,Scottish Gaelic poet (died2022 ) June 21 –Henry S. Taylor ,Pulitzer Prize -winningAmerican poet August 25 –Pat Ingoldsby ,Irish poet and television presenter September 19 –David Henderson ,American poet associated with the Umbra workshop andBlack Arts Movement October 5 –Nick Piombino ,American poet, essayist and psychotherapist, sometimes associated withLanguage poets because of his frequent appearance in the seminalL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E October 11 –William Corbett , American poet, essayist, editor, educator and publisher (died2018 ) October 23 –Douglas Dunn ,Scottish poet, academic and critic November 9 –Karin Kiwus ,German poet November 11 –William Matthews ,American poet and essayist November 19 –Sharon Olds ,American poet November 27 –Marilyn Hacker ,American poet, critic and reviewer November 28 –Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin ,Irish poet December 9 –David Harsent ,English poet and crime novelist December 16 Also: Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 –Joan Vincent Murray (born1917 ), English-born Canadian American poet February 2 –Daniil Kharms (born1905 ), earlySoviet -erasurrealist andabsurdist poet, writer, dramatist and founder ofOberiu poetry school, probably of starvation in his Leningrad prison asylum cell February 15 –Marie Heiberg (born1890 ),Estonian poet, insane March 26 –Carolyn Wells (born1862 ),American novelist and poet March 28 –Miguel Hernández (born1910 ),Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during imprisonment April 19 –José María Eguren (born1874 ),Peruvian symbolism poet April 24 –Lucy Maud Montgomery , known as "L. M. Montgomery" (born1874 ),Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning withAnne of Green Gables c. Early May –Jakob van Hoddis (born1887 ),German -Jewish Expressionist poet, inSobibór extermination camp May 7 –William Baylebridge , pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge (born1883 ),Australian poet and short story writer May 11 –Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born1886 ),Taishō and earlyShōwa period Japanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara) May 12 –Shaw Neilson (born1872 ),Australian poet May 26 –Libero Bovio (born1883 ),Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect May 29 –Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子pen name of Yosano Shiyo (born1878 ), lateMeiji period ,Taishō period and earlyShōwa period Japanese poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan (surname: Yosano) September 3/4 –Annie Wall Barnett (born1859 ),American poet, writer, litterateur September 12 –Patrick R. Chalmers (born1872 ),Irish writer on field sports and poet October 29 –Màrius Torres (born1910 ),Catalan Spanish poet, from tuberculosis November 2 –Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋,pen name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (born1885 ),Taishō andShōwa period Japanese tanka November 4 –Clementine Krämer (born1873 ),German poet and short-story writer, inTheresienstadt concentration camp December 23 –Konstantin Balmont (born1867 ), Russian Symbolist poet, in Paris ^ "Diseuse in Debut Here - Marianne Lorraine Presents 'One Woman Theatre' at Town Hall Critical review of Marianne Lorraine and John Serry".The New York Times . 1 March 1942. p. 36.ProQuest 106170249 . ^ Free World Vol. 2 p. 94 "The Free world Association presents Marianne Oswald...John Serry accordionist...Patroness Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt" - Free World Association Eleanor Roosevelt Feb. 1942 on Google Books^ Free World - A Monthly Magazine devoted to Democracy, p. 94 "The Free World Association presents...Marianne Oswald...John Serry accordionist...Town Hall, February 28, 1942" Free World Association Marianne Oswald 1942 on Google Books.^ "La poésie de la résistance" (in French). copiedouble.com. Retrieved2017-02-06 .One of the poems isLiberté , printed on leaflets, it is distributed in mass since it is parachuted by the RAF in thousands of copies, in crates with weapons, in the Frenchmaquis . ^a b "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^a b c Roberts, Neil, editor,A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8 , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 ^a b c Gnarowsky, Michael,"Poetry in English, 1918-1960" , article inThe Canadian Encyclopedia , retrieved February 8, 2009 ^a b c d e f Auster, Paul, editor,The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets , New York: Random House, 1982ISBN 0-394-52197-8 ^ Neil Besner, "Birney, Alfred Earle Archived 2017-09-24 at theWayback Machine ,"Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 231 ^ "Anne Marriott (1913-1997) ", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011. ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak,The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) ISBN 81-260-1196-3 , retrieved August 6, 2010 ^a b Naik, M. 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Nault, Jr.,Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ^a b Web page titled"Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. ^a b c d e f g h i j k l Brée, Germaine ,Twentieth-Century French Literature , translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983^ Hartley, Anthony, editor,The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century , Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967 ^a b c d e f g h Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various,History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2 Sahitya Akademi ,ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9 , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 ^ Fitts, Dudley, editor,Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this edition was "Printed in U.S.A."), 1947, p 621 ^ Web page titled"Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04. ^ Web page titled"Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. ^ Web page titled"Francis Ponge (1899 - 1988)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 10, 2009.Archived 2009-05-04. ^ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards Archived 2011-05-14 at theWayback Machine ", Canada Council. 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