- 1948 in poetry
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* Sometime this year,
Jack Kerouac introduced the phraseBeat 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 novelistJohn Clellon Holmes
* September — The body ofWilliam 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
* TheBollingen Prize is established byPaul Mellon , and was funded by a $10,000 grant from theBollingen Foundation to theLibrary of Congress .Works published
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James K. Baxter , "Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness", New Zealand
*John Berryman , "The Dispossessed" (New York: William Sloan Associates)
* SirJohn 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, accessedApril 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
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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 , accessedApril 22 ,2008 ]
*Richard Ellmann , "Yeats, The Man And The Mask", United States, biographyAwards and honors
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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
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January 31 —Albert Goldbarth
*March 5 —Leslie Marmon Silko , Native American writer, a figure in what has been called theNative 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 withNew 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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Andrei Zhdanov , persecutor of poets]
*May 22 —Claude McKay , Jamaican writer, humanist, Communist, and part of theHarlem 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
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**Gordon Bottomley , English poet, known for hisverse drama see also
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Poetry
*List of poetry awards
*List of years in poetry References
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