1960 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 |
| Years in literature: | 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Years: | 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 |
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[edit] Events
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
- An inscription of an excerpt of the Poema de Fernán González is discovered on a roofing tile in Merindad de Sotoscueva, the earliest known record of it.
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Canada
- Margaret Avison, Winter Sun[1]
- Kenneth McRobbie, Eyes Without a Face[1]
- Peter Miller, Sonata for Frog and Man[1]
[edit] Anthologies
- A. J. M. Smith, the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, including untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with English-language poems[1]
- Edmund Snow Carpenter, an anthropologist, editor of this volume, Anerca, anonymous Eskimo poems, with drawings by Enooesweetok[1]
[edit] United Kingdom
- W. H. Auden, Homage to Clio[1]
- Sir John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
- Edwin Bronk, A Family Affair, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press[2]
- Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems[1]
- D. J. Enright, Some Men Are Brothers[1]
- Ted Hughes, Lupercal, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper[1][2]
- John Knight, Straight Lines and Unicorns[1]
- Peter Levi, The Gravel Ponds[1]
- Patrick Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling[1]
- Norman MacCaig, A Common Grace[1]
- Dom Moraes, Poems, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
- Edwin Muir, Collected Poems (posthumous)[1]
- William Ploner, Collected Poems[1]
- Peter Redgrove, The Collector, London: routledge and Kegan Paul[1][2]
- Charles Tomlinson, Seeing is Believing[1]
- Andrew Young, Collected Poems[1]
[edit] United States
- Paul Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush
- Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters
- E. E. Cummings, Collected Poems
- Robert Duncan, Selected Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books[1][2]
- Paul Engle, Poems in Praise, including the sonnet sequence "For the Iowa Dead"
- Jean Garrigue, A Water Walk by Villa d'Este[1]
- Ramon Guthrie, Graffiti[1]
- Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, New York: Atheneum[2]
- LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, New York: Totem/Corinth Books[2]
- Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees posthumous, edited by Donald Justice
- Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues[1]
- Galway Kinnell, What a Kingdom It Was, Boston: Houghton Mifflin[2]
- Denise Levertov, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads[1]
- Robert Lowell, Life Studies, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy[2]
- Howard Moss, A Winter Come, a Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960, New York: Scribner's[2]
- Howard Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, University of Chicago Press[2]
- Charles Olson:
- Ezra Pound, Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, multi-lingual cantos[1]
- Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Boston: Houghton Mifflin[2]
- Wilfred Townley Scott, Scrimshaw[1]
- W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle[1]
- Theodore Weiss, Outlanders, New York: Macmillan[2]
- Reed Whittemore, The Self-Made Man and Other Poems[1]
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry (college textbook), originally published in 1938, goes into its third edition (a fourth will be published in 1976)
- Ed Dorn, What I See in the Maximum Poems, Migrant Press (criticism)[3]
- Karl Shapiro, In Defense of Ignorance, an attack on the dominant critical values of modern poetry in the vein of T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound
[edit] The New American Poetry 1945-1960
The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960, aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets. In the longer term it attained a classic status, with critical approval and continuing sales. It was reprinted in 1999.
Poets represented:
Helen Adam - John Ashbery - Paul Blackburn - Robin Blaser - Ebbe Borregaard - Bruce Boyd - Ray Bremser - Brother Antoninus - James Broughton - Paul Carroll - Gregory Corso - Robert Creeley - Edward Dorn - Kirby Doyle - Robert Duerden - Robert Duncan - Larry Eigner - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Edward Field - Allen Ginsberg - Madeline Gleason - Barbara Guest - LeRoi Jones - Jack Kerouac - Kenneth Koch - Philip Lamantia - Denise Levertov - Ron Loewinsohn - Edward Marshall - Michael McClure - David Meltzer - Frank O'Hara - Charles Olson - Joel Oppenheimer - Peter Orlovsky - Stuart Perkoff - James Schuyler - Gary Snyder - Gilbert Sorrentino - Jack Spicer - Lew Welch - Philip Whalen - John Wieners - Jonathan Williams
[edit] Other in English
- Dom Moraes, John Nobody, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
- Allen Curnow, The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, New Zealand[4]
[edit] Works in other languages
[edit] French language
[edit] Canada
- Anne Hébert, Poèmes[1]
- Michèle Lalonde:
- Paul Morin, Géronte et son mirior[1]
- Yves Préfontaine, L'Antre du poème[1]
- Pierre Trottier, Les Belles au bois dormant[1]
- Gilles Vigneault, Etraves[1]
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Gérard Bessette, Les Images en poésie canadienne-française[1]
[edit] France
- Louis Aragon, Les Poètes[1]
- Georges Emmanuel Clancier, Evidences[1]
- Paul Géraldy, Vous et moi[1]
- Pierre Jean Jouve, Proses[1]
- St. John Perse, Chronique[1]
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] Latin America
- Manuel Blanco-González, La luna et lluvia[1]
- Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela[1]
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the Rubén Darío Prize[1]
- Manuel Durán, La paloma azul[1]
- Germán Pardo García, Centauro al sol[1]
- León de Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by Jorge Zalamea (Colombia)[1]
- Carlos García-Prada, editor, Escala del sueño, anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets[1]
- Elías Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico)[1]
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography
- Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of the Peruvian poet's verse[1]
- Antonio Oliver Belmás, Este otro Rubén Darío[1]
- Gastón Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela Mistral[1]
- Manuel Pedro González, editor, Antología crítica de José Marti, including writing by Darío, Gabriela Mistral, Unamuno, and Onís[1]
- Glen L. Kolb, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, "A Study of the Life, Times and Poetry of a Spanish Colonial Satirist"[1]
- Eduardo Neale-Silva, Horizonte humano, the first detailed biographical study of the Colombian poet José Eustasio Rivera[1]
- Federico de Onís, Luis Palês Matos — vida y obra-bibliografía, antología, poesías, inéditas, a study of the Puerto Rican poet's life and artistic development[1]
[edit] Other
- Odysseus Elytis, Έξη και μια τύψεις για τον ουρανό ("Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky"), Greece
- H. M. Enzensberger, editor, Museum der modernen Poesie, anthology of international modernist poetry, German[5]
- Haim Gouri, Shoshanat Ruhot ("Compass Rose"), Israeli writing in Hebrew
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] United Kingdom
- Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman
[edit] United States
- National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Life Studies
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
- Bollingen Prize: Delmore Schwartz
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jesse Stuart
[edit] Greece
- First State Poetry Price: Odysseus Elytis
[edit] Births
- January 28 — Robert von Dassanowsky, American academic, writer, poet, film and cultural historian, and producer.
- February 12 — George Elliott Clarke, Canadian poet and playwright
- dates not known:
- Jeffery Donaldson, Canadian poet, critic, and theorist
- Alexis Stamatis, Greek
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Ralph Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
- March 23 — Franklin Pierce Adams, 78, American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of poetry
- May 30 — Boris Pasternak, 70, Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of lung cancer
- August 8 — Harry Kemp, 76
- date not known:
- Frances Cornford, English poet
- Walter D'Arcy Creswell (born 1896), New Zealand
- David Diop
- Frank S. Flint
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc Britannica Book of the Year 1961, covering events of 1960, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961; articles: American Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Soviet Literature, Obituaries
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n M. 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
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
