Overview of the events of 1942 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).
Events
March 1 – Marianne Lorraine appears with John Serry Sr. at The Town Hall (New York City) in a performance of poetry by Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish as presented by the Free World Association and sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall.
April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté " is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine , titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France . It is published by Éditions de Minuit and printed in London by the official Gaullist magazine La France libre . Thousands of copies are parachuted into Occupied France by aircraft of the British Royal Air Force .[ 4]
October – English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein (against orders).
December – BIM Barbados .[ 5]
American poet George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army.Preview , a small literary magazine, is founded in Canada (merged with First Statement in 1945 to form Northern Review , which lasts until 1956 ); it is published by F. R. Scott , A. J. M. Smith , A. M. Klein and P. K. Page , led by English-born poet and travel writer Patrick Anderson .[ 6] First Statement , a mimeographed,[ 7] Preview in 1945 ); it is published by John Sutherland ;[ 6] Irving Layton and Louis Dudek are also involved.[ 7] French poet André Breton delivers a lecture entitled "Situation du surealisme entre les deux guerres" at Yale University.[ 8]
Works published
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 in Canadian schools for decades[ 6] Governor General's Award , 1942 .[ 9] Arthur Bourinot , Canada at Dieppe .[citation needed Ralph Gustafson ed., Anthology of Canadian Poetry , including work by F. R. Scott , A. M. Klein , A. J. M. Smith , Leo Kennedy Archived 2017-09-24 at the Wayback Machine , E. J. Pratt , Finch, Dorothy Livesay , P. K. Page and Earle 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 as Joseph Furtado , Selected Poems (Poetry in English), Bombay : published by the author in a limited edition of 100 copies (second edition, revised 1947 ; third edition, revised 1967 )[ 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 the United 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 by Tambimuttu , 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 the New 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]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
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:
Le livre ouvert [ 19] Poésie et Vérité [ 19] 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
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 into Sanskrit from the Malayalam of Kumaran Asan 's poem Cintavistayaya Sita [ 21] Pritam Singh Safir , Pap de Sohle , Indian , Punjabi -language[ 21] Sumitra Kumari Sinha , ' 'Asa Parva' ', Hindi -language (India )[ 21]
Other languages
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 in Italy Cesare Pavese , Lavorare stanca ("Hard Work"), expanded version nearly double the size of the first edition published in 1936 ; 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
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 17 – Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), African-American heavyweight boxer and occasional poet (died 2016 )
January 19 – Pat Mora , female Mexican-American author and poet
February 14 – Rafiq Azad , Bengali poet, editor and academic (died 2016 )
February 20 – Hugo Williams , English poet, journalist and travel writer
February 22 – Peter Abbs , English poet and academic (died 2020 )
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 (died 2022 )
June 21 – Henry S. Taylor , Pulitzer Prize -winning American poet
August 25 – Pat Ingoldsby , Irish poet and television presenter
September 19 – David Henderson , American poet associated with the Umbra workshop and Black Arts Movement
October 5 – Nick Piombino , American poet, essayist and psychotherapist, sometimes associated with Language poets because of his frequent appearance in the seminal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
October 11 – William Corbett , American poet, essayist, editor, educator and publisher (died 2018 )
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:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – Joan Vincent Murray (born 1917 ), English-born Canadian American poet
February 2 – Daniil Kharms (born 1905 ), early Soviet -era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist and founder of Oberiu poetry school, probably of starvation in his Leningrad prison asylum cell
February 15 – Marie Heiberg (born 1890 ), Estonian poet, insane
March 26 – Carolyn Wells (born 1862 ), American novelist and poet
March 28 – Miguel Hernández (born 1910 ), Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during imprisonment
April 19 – José María Eguren (born 1874 ), Peruvian symbolism poet
April 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery , known as "L. M. Montgomery" (born 1874 ), Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
c. Early May – Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887 ), German -Jewish Expressionist poet, in Sobibór extermination camp
May 7 – William Baylebridge , pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge (born 1883 ), Australian poet and short story writer
May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born 1886 ), Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara)
May 12 – Shaw Neilson (born 1872 ), Australian poet
May 26 – Libero Bovio (born 1883 ), Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect
May 29 – Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子 pen name of Yosano Shiyo (born 1878 ), late Meiji period , Taishō period and early Shōwa 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 (born 1859 ), American poet, writer, litterateur
September 12 – Patrick R. Chalmers (born 1872 ), Irish writer on field sports and poet
October 29 – Màrius Torres (born 1910 ), Catalan Spanish poet, from tuberculosis
November 2 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (born 1885 ), Taishō and Shōwa period Japanese tanka
November 4 – Clementine Krämer (born 1873 ), German poet and short-story writer, in Theresienstadt concentration camp
December 23 – Konstantin Balmont (born 1867 ), Russian Symbolist poet, in Paris
See also
Notes
^ "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. Retrieved 2017-02-06 . One of the poems is Liberté , 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 French maquis . ^ 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 in The 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, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
^ Neil Besner, "Birney, Alfred Earle Archived 2017-09-24 at the Wayback 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. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English ISBN 0-391-03286-0 , ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6 ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
^ Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo , p 182 Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) ISBN 81-260-1196-3 , retrieved August 6, 2010
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^ 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.
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