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Events

• Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbe's The Borough
• Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States
• Ezra Pound is arrested for treason at Genoa and imprisoned at Pisa by the U.S. Army

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... George Crabbe (December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832) was an English poet and naturalist. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22, 1899 [O.S. April 10], Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ...

Works published

• W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
• Elizabeth Smart, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" (prose poem)
• Randall Jarrell, Little Friend, Little Friend, including "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
• Alun Lewis, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, posthumously published

Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was an English poet. ... Elizabeth Smart is the name of: Elizabeth Smart, 20th century Canadian author Elizabeth Smart, American teenager whose kidnapping from her Utah home in 2002 gained significant media attention; later rescued March 2003 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965) was a United States author, writer and poet. ... Alun Lewis (July 1, 1915 - March 5, 1944), was a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. ...

Awards

• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Louise Bogan appointed this year. She would serve until sometime in 1946.

• Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35,000 a year. ... Louise Bogan (August 11, 1879 - 1970) was an American poet. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913-May 14, 2000) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States poet, famous for his poetry written in the Pacific Theater while he served there during World War II. His collection V-Letter and Other Poems, written while Shapiro was stationed in New Guinea, was...

Births

• April 2 — Anne Waldman, American poet
• April 30 — Annie Dillard, American poet and 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner
• June 21 — Adam Zagajewski Polish poet, novelist, and essayist
• July 21 — Wendy Cope, English poet
• August 13 — Tom Wayman, Canadian poet and academic
• date not known:
  • Terry Blackhawk
  • Marianne Bluger
  • Syl Cheyney-Coker
  • W. S. Di Piero
  • Norman Dubie, American poet
  • Calvin Forbes
  • Robert Gray, poet
  • Ellen Jaffe
  • Bernadette Mayer, American poet
  • J.D. McClatchy, gay American poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review.
  • Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Alice Notley, American poet

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Deaths

• January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, 75, poet
• March 20 - Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
• May 15 — Charles Williams, British writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
• June 8 — Robert Desnos, was a French surrealist poet.
• July 20 — Paul Valéry, French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet
• December 14 — Maurice Baring, versatile English man of letters: a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
• date not known:
  • Mary Ursula Bethell
  • Capel Boake

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See also

Poetry Portal

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• List of poetry awards