1958 in poetry explained
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- April 18 - American poet Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed.[1] He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946) and returns to Italy.[1]
- June 29 - A monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky is unveiled in the centre of Moscow and becomes a focus for informal poetry readings.
- Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities.
- Writers Workshop, a Calcutta, India-based literary publisher, is founded this year by the poet P. Lal with several other writers.
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:
- Donald Hall et al., editors, New Poets of England and America
- David Cecil and Allen Tate, Modern Verse in English (anthology)
- Earle Birney, Selected Poems
- Louis Dudek:
- Laughing Stalks[2]
- En Mexico[2]
- John Glassco, The Deficit Made Flesh
- Ralph Gustafson, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse[3]
- Irving Layton, A Laughter in the Mind.[4]
- E. J. Pratt, The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt. Toronto: Macmillan. (introduction by Northrop Frye)[5]
- James Reaney, A Suit of Nettles. Governor General's Award 1958.
- F. R. Scott and A.J.M. Smith, The Blasted Pine, a satirical miscellany
- A. J. M. Smith and F. R. Scott, editors, The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (see also the edition of 1966)
- Raymond Souster, Crepe-Hanger's Carnival: Selected Poems 1955-58 Toronto: Contact Press.[6]
- Miriam Waddington, The Season's Lovers[2]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada
- L.M. Lande, Old Lamps Aglow
- R.E. Rashley, Poetry in Canada
- Sarojini Naidu, The Sceptred Flute - Songs of India (Poetry in English), Allahabad: Kitabistan, published posthumously (died 1949)[8]
- Dilip Kumar Roy, The Immortals of the Bhagvat (Poetry in English),[9]
- A. Alvarez, The End of It[10]
- John Betjeman, Collected Poems, London: John Murray; Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959[7]
- Michael Hamburger, The Dual Site, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul[7]
- John Heath-Stubbs, Helen in Egypt, and Other Plays[10]
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Sense of the World[10]
- George Rostrevor Hamilton, Collected Poems
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Triumph of the Muse
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Sense of the World, London: André Deutsch[7]
- Thomas Kinsella, Another September[10] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Dom Moraes, A Beginning, his first book of poems (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
- James Reeves, The Talking Skull
- Michael Roberts, Collected Poems
- Alan Ross, To Whom It May Concern[10]
- John Silkin, The Two Freedoms
- Sir Osbert Sitwell, On the Continent (see also England Reclaimed 1927 and Wrack at Tidesend 1952)[10]
- John Smith, Excursus in Autumn, including "Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to be of a Higher Rank"
- A.S.J. Tessimond, Selection
- R.S. Thomas, Poetry for Supper[10]
- C.A. Trypanis, a book of poetry
- David Wright, Monologue of a Deaf Man, London: André Deutsch[7]
- Andrew Young, Out of the World and Back: into Hades, & A Travller in Time: two poems
- Conrad Aiken, Sheepfold Hill[11]
- Djuna Barnes, The Antiphon a surrealist verse play
- John Berryman, His Thoughts Made Pockets & the Plane Buckt[11]
- John Ciardi, I marry You; a Sheaf of Love Poems
- Gregory Corso:
- Louis Coxe, The Wilderness and Other Poems[11]
- E.E. Cummings, 95 Poems[11]
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind, New Directions[12]
- George Garrett, The Sleeping Gypsy[11]
- Donald Hall, The Dark Houses[11]
- Anthony Hecht, The Seven Deadly Sins[11]
- John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns, Yale University Press[12]
- Rolfe Humphries, editor, New Poems by American Poets (anthology)
- Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems: 1928 - 1958[11]
- Denise Levertov, Overland to the Islands, Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams[7]
- Archibald MacLeish, J.B., a verse play[11]
- William Meredith, The Open Sea and Other Poems[11]
- Howard Nemerov, Mirrors and Windows[11]
- Kenneth Patchen:
- Poem-scapes
- Hurrah for Anything
- When We Were Here Together
- Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind, Garden City, New York: Doubleday[7]
- Muriel Rukeyser, Body of Waking[11]
- Winfield Townley Scott, The Dark Sister
- Karl Shapiro, Poems of a Jew, New York: Random House[7]
- Eli Siegel, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[13]
- Clark Ashton Smith, Spells and Philtres
- William Jay Smith, Poems 1947-1957
- May Swenson, A Cage of Spines[11]
- Charles Tomlinson, Seeing Is Believing, New York: McDowell, Obolensky[7]
- John Updike, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures[11]
- Mona Van Duyn, Valentines to the Wide World[11]
- David Wagoner, A Place to Stand[11]
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book V[11]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Spanish language
Chile
- José Ramón, Antología poética, Argentina
- Rubén Vela, Veranos, Argentina
Portuguese language
French language
- Ollivier Mercier-Gouin, Poèmes et Chansons
- Ronald Després, Silences à nourrir de sang
- Roger Brien, Vols et plongées
- Alain Grandbois, L'Étoile pourpre
- Roland Giguère, Le défaut des ruines est d'avoir des habitants
- Sh. Shalom:
- Ben Tehelet ve-Lavan ("Amidst the Blue and White")
- Shirai Kommiut Israel ("Poems on the Rise of Israel")
- Yehoshua Rabinow, Shirat Amitai ("Amitai's Song")
- I. Shalev, Eloha Hanoshek Lohamim
- P. Elad, Mizrah Shemesh ("East of the Sun")
- David Rokeah, Kearar Aleh Shaham ("Juniper on Granite")
- T. Carmi, ha-Yam ha-Aharon ("The Last Sea")
- Y. Amihai, be-Merhak Shtai Tikvot ("At a Distance of Two Hopes")
- Ephraim Lisitzky, Anshai Midot ("Virtuous Men")
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Other
Awards and honors
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford
- Foyle Prize for Poetry: Dame Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems
- Guinness Poetry Awards:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Poetry Magazine
Poetry Society of America
- Grand Prix Littéraire de la Ville de Paris: Maurice Fonbeure for poetry
- Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie française: Mme. Gérard d'Houville
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 - Gerald William Bullett, 64, English author and critic
- January 15 - Brian Howard, 52 (born 1905), English poet and writer, suicide
- March 13 - Vallathol Narayana Menon (born 1878), Indian, Malayalam language poet
- March 24 - Seamus O'Sullivan (born 1879), Irish
- May 5 - James Branch Cabell, 79, whose 52 books included poetry, of a cerebral hemorrhage (to help people remember the pronunciation of his name, he composed the ditty, "Tell the rabble my name is CA-bell.")
- June 10 - Angelina Weld Grimke (born 1880), African American lesbian journalist and poet[24]
- June 25 or 28[25] - Alfred Noyes, 77 (born 1880), English poet
- September 8 - Geoffrey Winthrop Young, 81 (born 1876), English mountaineer, poet and educator
- September 11 - Robert W. Service, 84 (born 1874), Scots-Canadian poet who wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee
- October 29 - Zoë Akins, 72, American poet and dramatist who won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for her drama version of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid
- November 12 - Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (born 1881), Japanese poet and academic
- December 20 - Sir John Collings Squire, British poet, writer, historian and influential literary editor
- Also:
See also
Notes
- Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
- Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- Britannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1960; "Canadian Literature" article mentioned this book as a "late 1958 anthology"
- "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- "Bibliography," Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Peter Buitenhuis ed., Toronto: Macmillan, 1968, 207-208.
- "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- [M. L. Rosenthal]
- Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint),, retrieved August 6, 2010
- Amrita Paresh Patel, "24. Selected Poems of Dilip Kumar Roy: A Study", p 267, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons,, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- Ludwig, 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)
- [Richard Ellmann]
- Book: Fischer. Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000, Part F, Vol. 17: Documentation. 2003. Walter de Gruyter. Munchen, Germany . 3-598-30170-7.
- http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/L/LiteraturePoetry/TheContemporaryScene/en Web page titled "The Contemporary Scene"
- http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=13003&ArticleId=341019 "Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies"
- Web page titled "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Bibliography", Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010
- Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
- Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911 - 1956", p 620, in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi,, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi,, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- Britannica Book of the Year 1960, covering events of 1959, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1960; "Jewish Literature", pp 372-373; "[...] Meyer Shtiker, whose second collection of verse Yidishe landshaft ("Yiddish Landscape") was published in 1958."
- Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards
- [Audre Lorde]
- According to Encyclopædia Britannica.
