1964 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
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1967

Events

  • March 29 (Easter Day) – Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern" to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters in Trafalgar Square, London.
  • April 23 – The "Shakespeare Quartercentenary", the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare falling around this date, is celebrated throughout the year in lecture series, exhibitions, dramatic and musical programs and other events as well as special publications (Shakespeare issues and supplements), reprinting of standard works on the playwright and poet, and the issue of commemorative postage stamps. The American Association of Advertising Agencies suggests that Shakespeare quotations should be used in advertisements. Celebrations of various kinds occur in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and elsewhere.[1] The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre, housing its library and research facilities, in Stratford-upon-Avon (England).
  • June – The 75th birthday of Anna Akhmatova, who was severely persecuted during the Stalin era, is celebrated around this time with special observances and the publication of new collections of her verse.[1]
  • December – Poetry Australia literary magazine founded.
  • John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, published this year, wins the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
  • Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is convicted of "parasitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle.
  • Among the many books of poetry published this year, Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim. The book is received with "general jubilation" from critics, according to Raymond Walters Jr., associate editor of the New York Times Book Review. "These verses [...] convinced many observers that its author was now the pre-eminent U.S. poet."[1]
  • A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is John Lennon's In His Own Write, a compendium of nonsense poems, sketches and drawings by one of the Beatles.[1]
  • The publication in the United Kingdom of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence in two volumes is "a major publishing event of 1964".[1]

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:

Australia

Canada

Anthologies in Canada

  • Poetry of Mid-Century 1940/1960, edited by Milton Wilson, included the work of 10 well-known Canadian poets:[1]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Canada

  • Northrop Frye, Fables of Identity, 16 essays on "various works and authors in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry"[1]
  • Roy Daniells, Milton, Mannerism and Baroque[1]

India, in English

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

  • Poetry of the Thirties, a Penguin Books anthology; including the last published appearance during the lifetime of W. H. Auden of his, "September 1, 1939", a poem which he was famous for, but which he hated; the poem appeared in the edition with a note about this and four other early poems: "Mr. W. H. Auden considers these five poems to be trash which he is ashamed to have written."
  • G. Hartmann, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814[17]

United States

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States

Other in English

Works in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Danish

French

Canada, in French

France

  • Louis Aragon, near simultaneous publication of four works:[1]
    • Series of discussions with F. Crémieux on the philosophical and literary ideas of the poet[1]
    • Il ne m'est Paris que d'Elsa, a collection of poems[1]
    • a "lengthy and ambitious historical poem"[1]
    • Le Voyage en Hollande[1]
  • René Char:
  • Michel Deguy, Biefs[23]
  • Jean Follain, Appareil de la terre[23]
  • Roger Giroux, L'arbre temps, winner of the Prix Max Jacob, the author's sole published book during his lifetime[23]
  • Edmond Jabès, Le Livre de Yukel[23]
  • A. Marissel, La Nouvelle parabole, winner of the first Louise Labé Prize[1]
  • Pierre Oster, La Grande Année[24]
  • Marcelin Pleynet, Paysages en deux suivis de Les Lignes de la prose[23]
  • Jean-Pierre Richard, Onze Etudes sur la poésie moderne, criticism[24]
  • Denis Roche, Les Idées centésimales de Miss Elanize[23]

Anthologies

  • J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie surréaliste[1]
  • G. E. Clancier, editor, Panorama critique de Chénier á Baudelaire[1]

German

Hebrew

  • Yaakov Cahan, the collected works[1]
  • Esther Rab, Shirai-[1]
  • Leah Goldberg, Im ha-Laila Hazeh ("On This Night")[1]
  • Daliah Rivikovich, Horef Kasheh ("Hard Winter")[1]
  • Dan Pagis, Shehut Mauhereth ("Belated Lingering")[1]
  • David Avidan, Masheu Bishvil Mishehu ("Something for Someone")[1]
  • Amir Gilboa, Kehulim Vaadumin ("The Blues and the Reds")[1]
  • Eldad Andan, Lo Bishmahot kalot ("Not with Joys Lightly")[1]
  • B. Mordecai, Nefilim ba-Aretz ("Giants on Earth")[1]
  • Aaron Zeitlin, Min ha-Adam Vomaila ("From Man and Higher"), comprising two dramatic poems by this American publishing in Israel[1]
  • Chaim Brandwein, be-Tzel ha-Argaman ("In the Shadow of the Purple"), a first book of poems by this American publishing in Israel[1]
  • Abraham Regelson, Hakukot Otiotaich ("Engraved Are Thy Letters"), by an American poet living in Israel[1]

Italian

  • Bartolo Cattafi, L'osso, l'anima[1]
  • Corrado Costa, Pseudobaudelaire avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Eugenio Miccini, Sonetto minore avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Elio Pagliarani, La lezione di fisica avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Pier Paulo Pasolini, Poesia in forma di rosa[1]
  • Lamberto Pignotti, La nozione dell'uomo avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Antonio Porta, Aprire avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Edoardo Sanguineti, Triperuno avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Cesare Vivaldi, Dettagli avant-garde poetry[1]
  • Gruppo '63 (published this spring), an anthology of poems, critical essays, and passages from plays and novels by writers who had rebelled in recent years against standard conventions in literature.[1]

Norwegian

Russian

Portuguese language

Brazil

  • Lupe Cotrim Garaude, O poeta e o mundo, her fourth collection[1]

Spanish language

Latin America

Anthologies
  • Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Poesía argentina (sic), including selections from 10 Argentinian poets, most born in the 1920s or later[1]
  • Oscar Echeverri Mejía and Alfonso Bonilla-Naar, editors, 21 años de poesía colombiana (sic), with poems from the more prominent Colombian poets in the two decades from 1942 to 1963[1]
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Latin America

Spain

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Spain

Yiddish

  • Mordkhay gebirtig, a new edition of the poet's works[1]
  • Itskhok Katzenelson, a new edition of the poet's works[1]
  • Abraham Sutzkever, a two-volume edition of the poet's works[1]
  • Joseph Rubinstein, Khurbn Polyn ("Polish Jewry: a Lament")[1]
  • Binem Heler, a book of poems[1]
  • Yankev Zonshayn, a book of poems[1]
  • P. Tsibulski, a book of poems[1]
  • I. Papiernikov, a book of poems[1]
  • I. Manik, a book of poems[1]
  • I. Goykhberg, a book of poems[1]
  • Rosa Gutman, a book of poems[1]
  • Aleph Katz, a book of poems[1]

Other

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Other

Births

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 Britannica Book of the Year 1965 (covering events of 1964), published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1965
  2. 1 2 Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
  3. "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  4. "Earle Birney: Published Works," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  6. "F. R. Scott: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  7. Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 560, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
  8. 1 2 3 Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 323, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 10, 2010
  9. 1 2 Naik, M. K., M1 Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
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  11. Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 384, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
  12. Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 445, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")
  13. Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" Archived 2006-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  14. Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" Archived September 28, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
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  17. Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F., editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1993, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 353
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." from the Preface, p vi)
  19. 1 2 Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
  20. Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
  21. 1 2 Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
  22. Web page titled "Marie-Claire Blais" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
  24. 1 2 3 Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  25. Shrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 0-7656-0521-X, ISBN 978-0-7656-0521-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
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