March – Cuban poet
Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60:
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Simone de Beauvoir,
Susan Sontag,
Alberto Moravia,
Carlos Fuentes, and
Mario Vargas Llosa (who saya he continues to support the Cuban revolution).
Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales
April 8 – Release of Right On!, a film directed by
Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York City streets
Counter/measures magazine is founded in the
United States by
X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patterns[1] and is an influence in the later creation of the
New Formalism movement.
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:
December 14 –
Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925),
Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 18 –
Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence
^Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p. 164.
^
abPurnima Mehta,
"16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184–185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons,
ISBN81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010.
^Web page titled
"Pierre Nepveu"Archived November 25, 2009, at the
Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010.
^
abcdeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1024, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989
ISBN0-674-61565-4.
^Britannica Book of the Year 1974 (for events of 1973), "Literature" article, "Italian" section, page 438, mentioned this book in passing, from an earlier year than the events covered in the volume
^
abEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920–1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998,
ISBN0-374-12554-6
^
abWeb page titled
"Delmira Agustini"Archived September 2, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011
^
abPreminger, 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.
March – Cuban poet
Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60:
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Simone de Beauvoir,
Susan Sontag,
Alberto Moravia,
Carlos Fuentes, and
Mario Vargas Llosa (who saya he continues to support the Cuban revolution).
Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales
April 8 – Release of Right On!, a film directed by
Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York City streets
Counter/measures magazine is founded in the
United States by
X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patterns[1] and is an influence in the later creation of the
New Formalism movement.
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:
December 14 –
Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925),
Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 18 –
Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence
^Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p. 164.
^
abPurnima Mehta,
"16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184–185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons,
ISBN81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010.
^Web page titled
"Pierre Nepveu"Archived November 25, 2009, at the
Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010.
^
abcdeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1024, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989
ISBN0-674-61565-4.
^Britannica Book of the Year 1974 (for events of 1973), "Literature" article, "Italian" section, page 438, mentioned this book in passing, from an earlier year than the events covered in the volume
^
abEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920–1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998,
ISBN0-374-12554-6
^
abWeb page titled
"Delmira Agustini"Archived September 2, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011
^
abPreminger, 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.