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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

  • Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

     founds and edits the Black Mountain Review
  • Jack Kerouac
    Jack Kerouac
    Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...

     reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
  • January 25 — Dylan Thomas'
    Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

     Under Milk Wood is broadcast on radio

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:

Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Daryl Hine
    Daryl Hine
    Daryl Hine is a Canadian poet and translator.-Life:Daryl Hine was born in Burnaby in 1936 and grew up in New Westminster B.C. He attended McGill University in Montreal 1954-58...

    , Five Poems
  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , In the Midst of My Fever. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press.
  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , The Long Pea-Shooter. Montreal: Laocoon Press."Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
  • Jay Macpherson
    Jay Macpherson
    Jean Jay Macpherson is a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls her "a member of 'the mythopoeic school of poetry,' who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic."-Life:Jay Macpherson was born in London,...

    , O Earth Return
  • P. K. Page
    P. K. Page
    Patricia Kathleen Page, CC, OBC, FRSC , commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet...

    , The Metal and the Flower, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , A Dream That Is Dying. Toronto: Contact Press
  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , Walking Death. Toronto: Contact Press.
  • F.R. Scott, Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
  • A.J.M. Smith, A Sort of Ecstasy; Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press.

India
Indian poetry
Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

, in English
Indian Poetry in English
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

  • Sri Aurobindo
    Sri Aurobindo
    Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...

    :
    • Collected Poems ( Poetry in English
      English language
      English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

       ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
    • Savitri ( Poetry in English
      English language
      English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

       ), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • R. de L. Furtado, The Centre, Hamilton, Ontario: Cromlech Press; Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

     author published in Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Nizamat Jung
    Nizamat Jung
    Nizamat Jung , a descendant of the Hyderabad Nizam family, was an Indian English poet....

    , Poems ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ), edited and published by Zahir Ahmed in Hyderabad
  • Prithwi Singh Nahar, The Wind of Silence ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ), songs, sonnets and other poems; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • C. Raju, This Modern Age, foreword by Amarnath Jha
  • K. S. R. Sastry, A Vision of India, Madras: Raja Power Press

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden
    Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

    , The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
  • Sir John Betjeman
    John Betjeman
    Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...

    , A Few Late Chrysanthemums
  • Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...

    , Fighting Terms, Fantasy Press
  • John Heath-Stubbs
    John Heath-Stubbs
    John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...

    , A Charm Against the Toothace
  • Philip Larkin
    Philip Larkin
    Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...

    , The Less Deceived

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

  • P. Cruttwell, The Shakespearean Moment, criticism, United Kingdom
  • G. Hartmann, The Unmediated Vision, criticism, United Kingdom
  • W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Verbal Icon, criticism, United Kingdom
  • Jon Silkin
    Jon Silkin
    Jon Silkin was a British poet.-Early life:Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Jewish immigrant family and named after Jon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, and attended Wycliffe College and Dulwich College During the Second World War he was one of the children evacuated from London ; he remembered that...

    , The Peaceable Kingdom, including "Death of a Son (who died in a mental hospital aged one)"
  • Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

    , Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishers
    New Directions Publishers
    New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin. The company was incorporated in 1964 as the New Directions Publishing Corporation and operates from New York City, and its books today are distributed by WW Norton & Company. Its...


United States

  • Leonie Adams
    Léonie Adams
    Léonie Fuller Adams was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.-Biography:...

    , Poems
  • W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden
    Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

    , The Shield of Achilles, English poet living in the United States at this time
  • Louise Bogan
    Louise Bogan
    Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945.-Early years:...

    , Collected Poems, 1923–1953
  • E. E. Cummings
    E. E. Cummings
    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...

    , Poems, 1923–1954
  • Babette Deutsch
    Babette Deutsch
    Babette Deutsch was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.Born in New York City, the daughter of Michael and Melanie Deutsch, she matriculated from the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College, graduating in 1917 with a B.A...

    , Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
  • Anthony Hecht
    Anthony Hecht
    Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.-Early years:Hecht was born in New York...

    , A Summoning of Stones
  • Daniel G. Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Wales
  • Robinson Jeffers
    Robinson Jeffers
    John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.-Life:Jeffers was born in...

    , Hungerfield and Other Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    Weldon Kees
    Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, jazz pianist, and short story writer...

    , Poems 1947–1954
  • Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...

    , Songs for Eve
  • W. S. Merwin
    W. S. Merwin
    William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...

    , The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...

    , Mine the Harvest
  • Marianne Moore
    Marianne Moore
    Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.- Life :Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and inventor...

    , The Fables of La Fontaine
  • Howard Moss
    Howard Moss
    Howard Moss was an American poet, dramatist and critic, who was poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1948 until his death. He won the National Book Award in 1972 for Selected Poems.-Biography:...

    , The Toy Fair
  • Kenneth Patchen
    Kenneth Patchen
    Kenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists...

    , The Famous Boating Party
  • May Swenson
    May Swenson
    Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright...

    , Another Animal
  • Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...

    , 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"), Knopf
  • E. B. White
    E. B. White
    Elwyn Brooks White , usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and co-authored a widely used writing guide, The...

    , The Second Tree from the Corner
  • William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

    , The Desert Music and Other Poems

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • Hugh Kenner
    Hugh Kenner
    William Hugh Kenner , was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics...

    , Wyndham Lewis
    Wyndham Lewis
    Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...

    : A Critical Guidebook
    , criticism, United States
  • W. C. Williams, Selected Essays, criticism, United States

Other

  • Martin Carter
    Martin Carter
    Martin Wylde Carter was a Guyanese poet, who has been compared in stature to W. B. Yeats and Pablo Neruda, as well as being called "the most Caribbean of Caribbean poets". Of mixed European, East Indian, and African descent, he began publishing in 1950 in Thunder Martin Wylde Carter (June 7,...

    , Poems of Resistance, Guyana
    Caribbean poetry
    Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...

  • Wilson Harris
    Wilson Harris
    Sir Theodore Wilson Harris is a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging.Wilson Harris was born in New Amsterdam in what was then...

    , Eternity to Season, Guyana
    Caribbean poetry
    Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...

  • Frank Prince, Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems, South African
    South African poetry
    The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from and identifies the major poets of South Africa, their works and influence....

  • Keith Sinclair
    Keith Sinclair
    Sir Keith Sinclair, CBE was a poet and noted historian of New Zealand.Born and raised in Auckland, Sinclair was a student at Auckland University College, which was then part of the University of New Zealand. He was awarded a Ph.D...

    , Strangers or Beasts: Poems, New Zealand
    New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...


Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

, in French

  • Jean-Guy Pilon
    Jean-Guy Pilon
    Jean-Guy Pilon, OC, CQ, FRSC is a Quebec poet.Born in Saint-Polycarpe, Quebec, he received a law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1954.-Honours:* In 1967, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada....

    , Les cloîtres de l'été, Montréal: l'Hexagone

France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Louis Aragon
    Louis Aragon
    Louis Aragon , was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.- Early life :...

    , Les Yeux et la memoire
  • Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau
    Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

    , Clair–obscur
  • René Daumal
    René Daumal
    René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet. He was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France....

    , Poésie noire, poésie blanche, posthumously published (died 1944
    1944 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...

    )
  • Jean Follain
    Jean Follain
    Jean Follain, was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy...

    , Appareil de la terre
  • Jean Grosjean
    Jean Grosjean
    Jean Grosjean was a French poet, writer and translator.-Overview:...

    , Fils de l'homme
  • Henri Michaux
    Henri Michaux
    Henri Michaux was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter who wrote in French. He later took French citizenship. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism...

    , Face au verrous

Hindi

  • Girija Kumar Mathur, Dhup ke dhan
  • 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
Malayalam poetry
There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...

  • P. K. Paramesvaran Nair, Adhunika Sahitya Caritram, history of Malayalam
    Malayalam poetry
    There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...

     literature (later translated into English and published by Sahitya Akademi
    Sahitya Akademi
    The Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...

     in 1967
    1967 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK....

     under the title History of Malayalam Literature)
  • P. Kunjiraman Nair, Kaliyacchan, poems reflecting traditional ways of life in Kerala
  • Sreedhara Menon, Kunnimenikal
  • Sukumar Azhikode
    Sukumar Azhikode
    Sukumar Azhikode is a writer, critic and orator, acknowledged for his contributions to Malayalam and insights on Indian philosophy. He is a bachelor and lives in Eravimangalam near Thrissur....

    , Asante Sitakavyam, critical assessment of Kumaran Asan
    Kumaran Asan
    N. Kumaran Asan , also known as Mahakavi Kumaran Asan , was one of the triumvirate poets of Kerala, South India...

    's Cintavishtayaya

Urdu
Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....

  • Gian Chand Jain, 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
    Savitri
    Savitri or Savithri may refer to:*Savitri, with all vowels short, a Roman-phonetic spelling of the Vedic Hindu sun god Savitr*Sāvitrī, a name of the Gayatri Mantra dedicated to Savitr...

    , a figure from Hindu mythology; Urdu
    Urdu poetry
    Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....

  • Masood Husain Khan, Urdu zaban aur adab, critical study on the Urdu language and literature

Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

  • Baldev Gajra, also known as "Gumnam", Gumnam Sada, nationalist poems; Sindhi
    Sindhi poetry
    Sindhi language poetry continues an oral tradition of a thousand years. The verbal verses were based on folk stories. Sindhi is one of the oldest languages of the Indus Valley having own literary colour both in poetry and prose. Sindhi poetry is very rich in thoughts as well as contain variety of...

  • Buddhadeb Basu, Sahitya Carca, essays on various literary topics; Bengali
    Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

  • Jayant Pathak, Marmar, the author's first poetry collection; Gujarati
  • M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Cendemaddale, Kannada
    Kannada poetry
    Kannada poetry is poetry written in the Kannada language spoken in Karnataka. Karnataka is the land that gave birth to eight Jnanapeeth award winners, the highest honour bestowed for Indian literature...

  • Mohan Singh
    Mohan Singh
    Mohan Singh is an Indian politician from the Samajwadi Party. He was elected three times to the Lok Sabha from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. He is currently the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party.-Political career:...

    , Awazan, lyrics with a "romantic progressive ideology", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das; Punjabi
  • Nand Lal Ambardar, Loel Ta Husun, including "Roopavat", Kashmiri
  • Nirendranath Chakraborty (also transliterated into English as Nirendranath Chakravarti), Nilnirjan (also transliterated into English as Nirendranath Chakravarti), mostly love poems, although one or two have political elements, Kolkata: Signet Press; Bengali
    Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

    -language
  • Raghunath Singh Samyal, Dogra Desa Te Dogari Boli, Dogri poetry praising Dograland, Dogra people and the Dogri language
  • Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Samkalpa ("Resolve"), Nepali
  • Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, also spelled "Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastri", Andhra Puranamu, Telugu
    Telugu poetry
    Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...

    , (surname: Madhunapantula
    Madhunapantula
    Madhunapantula is one of the Indian surnames.* Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry, one of the eminent personalities in Telugu literature.* Madhunapantula Suryanarayana Murty, is an Eminent Applied Mathematician....

    )
  • Manoj Das
    Manoj Das
    Manoj Das is an Indian award-winning author who writes in Oriya and English.Manoj Das, a profilic author,he is India's foremost short story writers. He writes both in Oriya and english and is a proffesor of English at the Sri Aurobindo International University, Pondicherry.Manoj Das was born in a...

    , Padadvani, Oriya
  • Satramdas, also known as "Sail", Rama Katha, 32 cantos in a Persian meter, written in the wake of the partition of India in 1947
    1947 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....

    ; Sindhi
    Sindhi poetry
    Sindhi language poetry continues an oral tradition of a thousand years. The verbal verses were based on folk stories. Sindhi is one of the oldest languages of the Indus Valley having own literary colour both in poetry and prose. Sindhi poetry is very rich in thoughts as well as contain variety of...

  • Visvanatha Satyanarayana, Nannayagari prasanna Katha Kalitartha Yukti, critical appraisal of Nannaya; Telugu
    Telugu poetry
    Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...


Other languages

  • José Santos Chocano
    José Santos Chocano
    José Santos Chocano Gastañodi was a Peruvian poet who is also known as "The Singer of Americas", because the first line of one of his most celebrated poems: "I am the singer of the America, Autochthonous and Savage""...

    , Obras completas, pról. de Luis Alberto Sánchez Madrid, Aguilar, Peruvian poetry published in Spain
    Spanish poetry
    Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....

  • Haim Gouri
    Haim Gouri
    Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine...

    , Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), Israeli
    Israeli literature
    Israeli literature is literature written in the State of Israel by Israelis. Most works classed as Israeli literature are written in the Hebrew language, although some Israeli authors write in Yiddish, English, Arabic and Russian...

     writing in Hebrew
    Hebrew literature
    Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews...

  • Sorley MacLean
    Sorley MacLean
    Sorley MacLean was one of the most significant Scottish poets of the 20th century.-Early life:He was born at Osgaig on the island of Raasay on 26 October 1911, where Scottish Gaelic was the first language. He attended the University of Edinburgh and was an avid shinty player playing for the...

    , Hallaig
    Hallaig
    Hallaig is a poem by Sorley MacLean. It was originally written in Scots Gaelic and has also been translated into both English and Lowland Scots. A recent translation was made by Seamus Heaney, an Irish Nobel Prize winner....

    , Scottish Gaelic (in Gairm 8)
  • Maria Luisa Spaziani
    Maria Luisa Spaziani
    Maria Luisa Spaziani is an Italian poet.She was born in Turin in 1924. At nineteen, Spaziani founded the review Il dado, working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vincenzo Ciaffi. Virginia Woolf sent her a chapter of her novel The Waves, autographed to Alla piccola...

    , Le acque del sabato, Italy
    Italian poetry
    -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

  • Wisława Szymborska, Pytania zadawane sobie ("Questioning Yourself"), Poland
    Polish poetry
    Polish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński ....


Awards and honors

  • National Book Award for Poetry
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    : Conrad Aiken
    Conrad Aiken
    Conrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography.-Early years:...

    , Collected Poems
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...

    : Theodore Roethke
    Theodore Roethke
    Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...

    : The Waking
  • King's Gold Medal for Poetry
    Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
    The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the rest of the Commonwealth realms...

    : Ralph Hodgson
    Ralph Hodgson
    Ralph Hodgson , Order of the Rising Sun ,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets...

  • Bollingen Prize
    Bollingen Prize
    The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.-Inception and controversy:The...

    : W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden
    Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louise Townsend Nicholl
    Louise Townsend Nicholl
    Louise Townsend Nicholl was an American poet, and editor.-Life:She graduated from Smith College, where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey....

     and Oliver St. John Gogarty
    Oliver St. John Gogarty
    Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses....

  • Canada:
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Metal and the Flower, P.K. Page

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • March 26 – Dorothy Porter
    Dorothy Porter
    Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...

     (died 2008
    2008 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* June — the release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys *...

    ), Australian
  • April 17 – Erin Mouré
    Erin Mouré
    Erin Mouré is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry from languages which include, French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish to English. Her mother Mary Irene was born 1924 in Galicia, Poland and moved to Canada in 1929. Erin’s father is William Moure born in Ottawa Canada in 1925...

    , Canadian
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • May 25 – Alexei Parshchikov
    Alexei Parshchikov
    Alexei Maximovich Parshchikov was a Russian poet, critic, and translator.Born in Olga, Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR to the family of a famous physician, Maxim Reiderman , and a surgeon, L.S. Parschikova, Parshchikov was raised in the Ukrainian SSR and attended the Kiev Academy of Agriculture...

     (died 2009
    2009 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nazim Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet...

    ), Russian poet, critic and translator who emigrated to the United States in 1991
  • July 19 – Jane Eaton Hamilton
    Jane Eaton Hamilton
    Jane Eaton Hamilton is a Canadian short story writer, poet and photographer.-Overview:Hamilton has published two books of poetry, Body Rain and Steam-Cleaning Love and two volumes of short fiction July Nights and Other Stories, and Hunger, , and two other books...

    , Canadian
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     short story writer, poet and photographer
  • July 31 – Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....

    , American poet and novelist
  • August 6 – Lorna Dee Cervantes
    Lorna Dee Cervantes
    Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana-Native American poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today." Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954 in California. She grew up in San...

    , American
  • August 8 – Yu Jian, China
    Chinese poetry
    Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...

  • August 15 – Mary Jo Salter
    Mary Jo Salter
    Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...

    , American
  • October 15 – Peter Bakowski
    Peter Bakowski
    Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,- Biography :Born in Melbourne, to...

    , Australian
  • November 10 – Joy Goswami
    Joy Goswami
    Joy Goswami is an Indian poet. Goswami writes in Bangla and is widely considered as one of the most important Bengali poets of his generation.-Biography:...

    , Indian Bengali
    Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

     poet (a man)
  • December 5 – Lynda Hull
    Lynda Hull
    Lynda Hull was a United States poet. She had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994. A third, The Only World , was published posthumously by her husband, the poet David Wojahn, and was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award...

    , American
  • December 20 – Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...

    , American poet and author

  • Also:
    • Catherine Anderson (poet), American
    • David Baker
      David Baker (poet)
      -Life:He was raised in Missouri.He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 1983.He taught at University of Michigan.He teaches at Denison University, and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers....

      , American
    • Robert Boates
      Robert Boates
      Robert Boates, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian poet. In 1989 he suffered a head injury which caused brain trauma, damaging the language center of his brain...

      , Canadian
      Canadian poetry
      - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

    • Janet Charman, New Zealand
      New Zealand literature
      New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

    • Cornelius Eady
      Cornelius Eady
      Cornelius Eady is an American poet focusing largely on matters of race and society, particularly the trials of the African-American race in the United States. His poetry often centers around jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class...

      , African American poet
    • David Hallett, Australian
    • Kevin Hart, Australian
    • Sotiris Kakisis
      Sotiris Kakisis
      Sotiris Kakisis is a contemporary Greek poet. He is also a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry . He has had a long career in journalism, excelling as an interviewer, has written song lyrics, and has scripted several films, notably director George Panousopoulos' "Love Me...

      , Greek
    • Jan Heller Levi
      Jan Heller Levi
      Jan Heller Levi is a poet who teaches at .-Life:She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Levi is the recipient of the for her first book, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder...

      , American
    • Thylias Moss
      Thylias Moss
      Thylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to...

      , African American poet, writer, and playwright
    • Luis J. Rodriguez
      Luis J. Rodriguez
      Luis J. Rodriguez is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a major figure of contemporary Chicano literature...

      , American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist
    • Stephen Sartarelli
      Stephen Sartarelli
      -Life:He graduated from Antioch College and New York University. He has translated the Inspector Montalbano series of detective novels written by the Italian writer Andrea Camilleri; these have gained considerable popularity in the US and the UK....

      , poet and translator
    • Vijay Seshadri
      Vijay Seshadri
      Vijay Seshadri is a Brooklyn, New York-based poet, essayist, and literary critic of significant repute.He was born in India and came to the United States in 1959 at the age of five. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio and has lived in many parts of the United States, including the Northwest and the Upper...

       poet, essayist, and literary critic
    • Deb Westbury, Australian

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • January 1 – Leonard Bacon (poet)
    Leonard Bacon (poet)
    Leonard Bacon was a American poet, translator, and literary critic. He graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym...

    , 66 (born 1887
    1887 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....

    )
  • March 28 – Francis Brett Young
    Francis Brett Young
    Francis Brett Young was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer.-Life:Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He schooled first at a private school in Sutton Coldfield...

    , 73 (born 1884
    1884 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems. Published at author's expense....

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     novelist and poet
  • May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim
    Maxwell Bodenheim
    Maxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist who was known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international fame during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.-Biography:...

    , 62 (born 1892
    1892 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin....

    ), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village
    Greenwich Village
    Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...

     Bohemian
    Bohemian
    A Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...

    s"
  • August 3 – Fumiko Nakajo
    Fumiko Nakajo
    Fumiko Nakajo was a tanka poet...

     中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子 (born 1922
    1922 in poetry
    — Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...

    ), Japanese
    Japanese poetry
    Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...

     tanka
    Waka (poetry)
    Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...

    poet who died at age 32 after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry (surname: Nakajo)
  • August 18 – Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨(born 1875
    1875 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker...

    ),Haiku poet in Japan of Meiji period. Masaoka Shiki
    Masaoka Shiki
    , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru , was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry...

    's pupil.
  • October 22 – Jibananda Das (born 1899
    1899 in poetry
    — Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...

    ), Bengali
    Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

     poet

See also

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