1953 in poetry

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in?=in poetry
in2?=in literature
cp=19th century
c=20th century
cf=21st century

yp1=1950
yp2=1951
yp3=1952
year=1953
ya1=1954
ya2=1955
ya3=1956
dp3=1920s
dp2=1930s
dp1=1940s
d=1950s
da=1960s
dn1=1960s
dn2=1970s
dn3=1980s|

Events

George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found "The Paris Review".

Works published

* John Ashbery, "Turandot and Other Poems"
* W. H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955
* James K. Baxter, "The Fallen House", New Zealand
* Charles Causley, "Survivor's Leave"
* Robert Creeley, American published in Europe:
**"The Kind of Act of"Everett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the "Modern American Poetry" website, accessed May 1, 2008]
**"The Immoral Proposition"
* E. E. Cummings, "i — six nonlectures" from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures of 1951-1952 (Harvard University Press)
* Sir John Betjeman, "A Few Late Chrysanthemums"
* Louis MacNeice, "Autumn Sequel"
* Charles Olson:
** "In Cold Hell, In Thicket", published in "Origin" as its eighth issue
** "Mayan Letters", letters to the poet Robert Creeley, report on the author's research into Mayan hieroglyphs and discuss Olson's ideas on "objectism" in poetry. (criticism) [Christensen, Paul, Web page titled [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olson/life.htm "Charles Olson's Life and Career"] at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008]
* Karl Shapiro, "Poems 1940-1953", New York: Random HouseM. L. Rosenthal, "The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II", New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340]
* W. D. Snodgrass, "Heart's Needle", New York: Knopf
* Wallace Stevens, "Collected Poems"
* John Heath-Stubbs, "New Poems"
* John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright. editors, "", a selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse
* R.S. Thomas, "The Minister"
* Melvin Tolson, "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"

Poets in the anthology "Images of Tomorrow"

John Heath-Stubbs edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers:
Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – Eurasia Anderson - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter - Alex Comfort – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas – George Every – John Fairfax – G. S. Fraser – John Gibbs – W. S. Graham - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Norman Nicholson – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine – Anne Ridler – Walter Roberts – W. R. Rodgers – Joseph Rykwert – John Smith – Muriel Spark – Derek Stanford – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain – John Waller – Vernon Watkins – Gordon Wharton - Margaret Willy – David Wright

Awards and honors

=United Kingdom=

* King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur Waley

United States

* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Marianne Moore
* National Book Award for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish, "Collected Poems: 1917-1952"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: "Collected Poems 1917-1952"
* Bollingen Prize: Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Frost

Births

* July 29 — Frank McGuinness, dramatist and poet
* February 27 — Brad Leithauser
* date not known:
** Mark Doty, American
** Jane Hirshfield, American poet and translator
** Peter Robinson, poet
** Gjertrud Schnackenberg, American poet

Deaths

* April 6 — Idris Davies, Welsh poet, originally writing in Cymraeg, but later writing exclusively in English.
* July 16 — Hilaire Belloc, 82, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplace
* November 9 — Dylan Thomas, 39, Welsh poet, from a cerebral incident;
* November 30 — Francis Picabia, painter, poet
*date not known:
** Helena Jane Coleman
** George Herbert Clarke

ee also

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

References