1948 in poetry

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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.
* "Di Goldene Keyt", an Israeli literary quarterly, founded
* The Bollingen Prize is established by Paul Mellon, and was funded by a $10,000 grant from the Bollingen Foundation to the Library of Congress.

Works published

* James K. Baxter, "Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness", New Zealand
* John Berryman, "The Dispossessed" (New York: William Sloan Associates)
* Sir John Betjeman, "Selected Poems"
* Charles Brasch: "Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45", Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [2008]
* Lawrence Durrell, "On Seeming to Presume"
* T. S. Eliot, "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture"
* Robert Graves, "The White Goddess", a "historical grammar" of poetic myth and inspiration
* John Heath-Stubbs, "The Swarming of the Bees"
* Randall Jarrell, "Losses"
* Olga Kirsch, "Mure van die Hart", Afrikaans
* William Meredith, "Ships and Other Figures"
* Ezra Pound, "Pisan Cantos"
* Derek Walcott, "25 Poems"
* William Carlos Williams:
** "Paterson", Book II
** "Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia"

Criticism, scholarship and biography

* A. Norman Jeffares, "W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet", United Kingdom, biography, revised in 1978 [http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1506107,00.html "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares"] , "The Guardian", by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008]
* Richard Ellmann, "Yeats, The Man And The Mask", United States, biography

Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize for Literature: T. S. Eliot
* Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Leonie Adams appointed this year.
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Percy MacKaye

Births

*January 31 — Albert Goldbarth
* March 5 — Leslie Marmon Silko, Native American writer, a figure in what has been called the Native American Renaissance
* April 6 — Anna Couani, Australian poet and teacher
* May 24 — Lorna Crozier, Canadian poet
* May 29 — David Waltner-Toews, Canadian poet, writer, veterinary epidemiologist
* August 1 — Frank Stanford (died 1978), American poet
* September 18 — Barrett Watten an American poet
* October 7 — Diane Ackerman an American author, poet, and naturalist
* October 18 — Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay) née Paulette Williams, an African American playwright, performance artist, writer and poet
*date not known:
** R. S. Gwynn, American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism
** Lawrence Joseph, American poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer, and law professor
** Brian Henderson (writer)
** Yitzhak Laor, Israeli poet, author, and journalist
** David Lehman, series editor for "The Best American Poetry" book series and American poet
** Anna Mioduchowska
** John Oughton
** Sherod Santos
** Heather McHugh
** Frank Stanford, American poet (died 1978)

Deaths

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* May 22 — Claude McKay, Jamaican writer, humanist, Communist, and part of the Harlem Renaissance
* August 31 — Andrei 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 [ Stites, Richard. "Soviet Popular Culture." Cambridge University Press: 1992. 117. ]
* December 13 — Michael Roberts, 46, British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, and teacher
*date not known:
** Gordon Bottomley, English poet, known for his verse dramas

ee also

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

References