Ezra Pound is brought back to the United States on treason charges but found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent toSt. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remains for 12 years (to1958).
Upon learning aboutIsaiah Berlin's visit toRussian poetAnna Akhmatova this year,Joseph Stalin's associateAndrei Zhdanov, with the approval of the Soviet Central Committee, issues the "Zhdanov decree" denouncing her as a "half harlot, half nun", and has her poems banned from publication. This resolution is directed against two literary magazines,Zvezda andLeningrad, which have published supposedly apolitical, "bourgeois", individualistic works of Akhmatova and the satiristMikhail Zoshchenko. In time Akhmatova's son will spend his youth in Stalinistgulags and she will resort to publishing several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release.
Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period, imagines the four as a group of like-minded poets, although they share little but very broadly left-wing views.
Rupert Brooke,The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke, comprising the contents ofCollected Poems of1928 and 26 additional poems; published posthumously[13]
Fredoon Kabraji, editor,This Strange Adventure: An Anthology of Poems in English by Indians 1828-1946, London: New India Pub. Co., 140 pages;Indian poetry published in the United Kingdom[10]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. And also from the country Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Shamas-ud Din Kafoor,Nendre Lotuyae Yoot Koetah, avatsun poem on the poverty of Kashmiri peasants; the work first appeared inHamdard, a weekly periodical, and was later included inPayame Kafoor[21]
Abdul Ahad Azad,Shikwa-e-Iblis, a complaint about unquestioning social conformity[21]
R. P. Sethu Pillai,Kiristuvat Tamilttontar, Tamil-language literary history on the contributions of Christian scholars, including Beschi, Pope, Caldwell andVitanayakam Pillai to that language's literature and culture[21]
Buddhadeb Basu,Kaler Putul, an essay of literary criticism inBengali of poets and their work after Rabindranath Tagore[21]
Chaganti Seshaiah,Andhra Kavi Tarangini, first volume in a 10-volume literary history written in theTelugu language (the last volume came out in1953)[21]
Dinu Bhai Pant,Mangu Di Chabila,Dogri narrative poem on bonded laborers exploited by village money lenders[21]
E. M. S. Nampudirippadu,Purogamana Sahityam an essay inMalayalam by a leader of the Marxist Communist Party on the idea of progressive literature; influential with many young authors[21]
Ishar Singh Ishar,Rangila Bhaia, humorous,Punjabi-language poems featuring Bhaia, a humorous character created by the poet for this and other works[21]
Laksmiprasad Devkota,Sulocana,Nepali-language epic using more than a dozenSanskrit meters; the poem, written in response to a challenge to prove the author's credentials as an epic poet, does not defy the norms of epics in Sanskrit poetics; based on a social theme[21]
May 25 –Ernest Rhys, 87 (born 1859), British poet, author, novelist, essayist best known for his role as founding editor of theEveryman's Library series of affordable classics
^Preminger, 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
^abcdefghijkLudwig, 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)
^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
^abcdefghijAuster, Paul, editor,The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982ISBN0-394-52197-8
^abcdBree, Germaine,Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
^Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors,The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
