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Encyclopedia > 1948 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Years in literature: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Decades in poetry: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries in poetry: 19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

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// Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbes 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 W.H. Auden, Collected Poems Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central... // W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry Roy Campbell, Talking Bronco Walter De la Mare, The Traveller Henry Reed, A Map of Verona, including Naming of Parts Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances, including Fern Hill and A... // Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time. ... See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1945 in literature, other events of 1946, 1947 in literature, list of years in literature. ... -1... See also: 1947 in literature, other events of 1948, 1949 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1949 in literature, other events of 1950, 1951 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1950 in literature, other events of 1951, 1952 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

Events

  • Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time to the novelist John Clellon Holmes
  • September — The body of William Butler Yeats who died in Menton, France in 1939, is moved from its original burial place Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to Drumcliffe, County Sligo, in accordance with his last wish. The Irish Naval Service corvette L.E. Macha carried the remains. Yeats' grave is a famous attraction in Sligo.

Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation. ... The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... John Clellon Holmes (March 12th, 1926 - March 2nd, 1988) is best known for his 1952 book Go, which described characters such as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg and is considered the first Beat novel. ... W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ...

Works published

Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906–19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Whos Who as a poet and hack. He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian London. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. ... Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965) was a United States author, writer and poet. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English. ...

Awards

The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... 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. ... Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 – 27 June 1988) was a United States poet. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... hello i am w. ... The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue is an eighty page poem in six parts by the British writer W.H. Auden. ...

Births

January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... Leslie Marmon Silko (born March 5, 1948) in Albuquerque, New Mexico is a Native American writer of Pueblo Laguna, Mexican, and white descent. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... Lorna Crozier (1948-2006) was a Canadian poet who lived in Saanichton, British Columbia. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... Frank Stanford (1949 - 1978) was a notable American poet. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of predominant poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAK-kay SHONG-gay) (born October 18, 1948) is an African American playwright, performance artist, and writer who is best-known for her Obie Award winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. ... Anna Couani (born 1948) is a contemporary Australian poet and teacher. ... New Formalism is a late-twentieth and early twenty-first century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse. ... Lawrence Joseph (b. ... David Lehman (born 1948) is the series editor for The Best American Poetry book series and a poet. ... Frank Stanford (1949 - 1978) was a notable American poet. ... Emily Dickinson, one of the best known American poets. ...

Deaths

Andrei Zhdanov, persecutor of poets
Andrei Zhdanov, persecutor of poets
  • May 22Claude McKay, Jamaican writer, humanist, Communist, and part of the Harlem Renaissance
  • August 31Andrei Zhdanov, 52, Soviet government official and persecutor of poets, writers and artists; until the late 1950s, Zhdanovism, defined cultural production in the Soviet Union; reducing permissible culture to a straightforward, scientific chart, where a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value; Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that "incorrect art" was an ideological diversion[1]
  • December 13Michael Roberts, 46, British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, and teacher
  • date not known:

Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Andrei Zhdanov Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов) (February 26 [O.S. February 14] 1896–August 31, 1948) was a Soviet politician. ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... Claude McKay. ... The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City after World War I. Literary historians and academics have yet to reach a consensus as to when the period... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ... Andrei Zhdanov Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов) (February 26 [O.S. February 14] 1896–August 31, 1948) was a Soviet politician. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Roberts (William Edward Roberts) (6 December 1902 - 13 December 1948) was a British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher. ... Gordon Bottomley (1874 – 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... Verse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama. ...

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