1960 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

List of years in poetry (table)
… 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 …
In literature 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

Events

• Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States.
• September 5 – Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending). ^[1]
• 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.

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:

Canada

• Margaret Avison, Winter Sun ^[2]
• Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Book ^[3]
• Kenneth McRobbie, Eyes Without a Face ^[2]
• Eli Mandel, Fuseli Poems ^[3]
• Peter Miller, Sonata for Frog and Man ^[2]

Anthologies

• Edmund Snow Carpenter, American anthropologist, editor, Anerca, anonymous Eskimo poems, with drawings by Enooesweetok ^[2]
• A. J. M. Smith, editor, The Oxford book of Canadian verse, in English and French, including untranslated poems in French combined in chronological order with English-language poems ^[2]

India, in English

• Nissim Ezekiel, The Unfinished Man: Poems Written in 1959, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India ^[4]
• Dom Moraes, John Nobody, ^[5] Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
• Deb Kumar Das, The Night before Us, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India ^[6]
• Pradip Sen, And Then the Sun, first edition (revised edition, 1968), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India ^[7]
• Raul De Loyola Furtado, The Oleanders and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India ^[4]
• Keshav Malik, The Rippled Shadow ^[8]
• Barjor Paymaster, the Last Farewell and Other Poems, Bombay: Asia Publishing House ^[8]
• V. Madhusudan Reddy, Sapphires of Solitude, Hyderabad: V. Man Mohan Reddy ^[8]
• Sasthi Brata, Eleven Poems, Calcutta: published by the author ^[4]

United Kingdom

• W. H. Auden, Homage to Clio ^[2]
• Sir John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells ^[9]
• Edwin Bronk, A Family Affair, Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press ^[10]
• Austin Clarke, The Hore-Eaters (see also Ancient Lights 1955, Too Great a Vine 1957) ^[9]
• Patric Dickinson, The World I See ^[9]
• Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems ^[2]
• D. J. Enright, Some Men Are Brothers ^[2]
• Ted Hughes, Lupercal, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper ^{[2] [10]}
• John Knight, Straight Lines and Unicorns ^[2]
• Peter Levi, The Gravel Ponds ^[2]
• Patrick Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling ^[2]
• Norman MacCaig, A Common Grace ^[2]
• Dom Moraes, Poems, Indian at this time living in the United Kingdom
• Edwin Muir, Collected Poems (posthumous) ^[2]
• Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and Other Poems , ^[9] American at this time living in the United Kingdom
• William Plomer, Collected Poems ^[2]
• Peter Redgrove, The Collector, and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul ^{[2] [9] [10]}
• James Reeves, Collected Poems 1929–59 ^[9]
• Charles Tomlinson, Seeing is Believing ^[2]
• Andrew Young, Collected Poems ^[2]

United States

• John Ashbery, The Poems ^[11]
• W. H. Auden, Homage to Clio ^[11]
• Paul Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush
• Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters, ^[11] including "We Real Cool"
• Witter Bynner, New Poems ^[11]
• Gregory Corso, The Happy Birthday of Death ^[11]
• Louis Coxe, The Middle Passage ^[11]
• E. E. Cummings, Collected Poems
• James Dickey, Into the Stone ^[11]
• Robert Duncan:
  • The Opening of the Field ^[11]
  • Selected Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books ^{[2] [10]}
• Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems 1930–1960 ^[11]
• Paul Engle, Poems in Praise, including the sonnet sequence "For the Iowa Dead"
• Jean Garrigue, A Water Walk by Villa d'Este ^[2]
• Ramon Guthrie, Graffiti ^[2]
• Anthony Hecht, A Bestiary ^[11]
• Daryl Hine, The Devil's Picture Book ^[11]
• Daniel G. Hoffman, A Little Geste and Other Poems ^[11]
• Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, New York: Atheneum ^[10]
• LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, New York: Totem/Corinth Books ^[10]
• Donald Justice, The Summer Anniversaries ^[11]
• Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees posthumous, edited by Donald Justice
• Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues ^[2]
• Galway Kinnell, What a Kingdom It Was, Boston: Houghton Mifflin ^[10]
• Denise Levertov, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads ^[2]
• Robert Lowell, Life Studies, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ^[10]
• Phyllis McGinley, Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades ^[11]
• James Merrill, Water Street, Atheneum Publishers ^[12]
• W. S. Merwin:
  • The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975) ^[13]
  • Translator, The Satires of Persius, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press ^[13]
• Joesphine Miles, Poems 1930–1960 ^[11]
• Howard Moss, A Winter Come, a Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960, New York: Scribner's ^[10]
• Howard Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, University of Chicago Press ^[10]
• John Frederick Nims, Knowledge of the Evening ^[11]
• Charles Olson:
  • The Distances, New York: Grove Press ^[10]
  • The Maximus Poems, New York: Jargon/Corinth Books ^[10]
• Kenneth Patchen, Because It Is ^[11]
• Ezra Pound, Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, multi-lingual cantos ^[2]
• Carl Sandburg, Wind Song ^[11]
• Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Boston: Houghton Mifflin ^[10]
• Wilfred Townley Scott, Scrimshaw ^[2]
• W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle ^[2]
• Gary Snyder, Myths and Texts ^[11]
• William Stafford, West of Your City ^[11]
• Eleanor Ross Taylor, Wilderness of Ladies ^[14]
• Theodore Weiss, Outlanders, New York: Macmillan ^[10]
• Reed Whittemore, The Self-Made Man and Other Poems ^[2]
• Yvor Winters, Collected Poems, Chicago: The Swallow Press ^[12]

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) ^[15]
• 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

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

Other in English

• Allen Curnow, The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, New Zealand ^[16]

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:

French language

Canada, in French

• Anne Hébert, Poèmes ^[2]
• Michèle Lalonde:
  • Songe de la fiancée détruite ^[2]
  • Geôles ^[2]
• Paul Morin, Géronte et son mirior ^[2]
• Jean-Guy Pilon, La mouette et le large, Montréal: l'Hexagone ^[17]
• Yves Préfontaine, L'Antre du poème ^[2]
• Pierre Trottier, Les Belles au bois dormant ^[2]
• Gilles Vigneault, Etraves ^[2]

Criticism, scholarship and biography

• Gérard Bessette, Les Images en poésie canadienne-française ^[2]

France

• Louis Aragon, Les Poetes ^[18]
• Aimé Césaire, Ferrements, Martinique author published in France; ^[19] Paris: Editions du Seuil
• Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Evidences ^[2]
• Michel Deguy, Fragments du cadastre ^[19]
• Mohammed Dib, Ombre gardienne, with a preface by Louis Aragon ^[18]
• Jean Follain, Des Heures ^[19]
• Paul Géraldy, Vous et moi ^[2]
• Pierre Jean Jouve, Proses ^[2]
• Pierre Oster, Un nom toujours nouveau ^[18]
• Saint-John Perse, Chronique ^[19]
• Jacques Prévert, Histoires ^[19]
• Tchicaya U Tam'si, À triche-coeur

Spanish language

Latin America

• Manuel Blanco-González, La luna et lluvia ^[2]
• Dolores Castro, Cantares de vela ^[2]
• Pablo Antonio Cuadra, El jaguar y la luna (Nicaragua), winner of the Rubén Darío Prize ^[2]
• Manuel Durán, La paloma azul ^[2]
• Germán Pardo García, Centauro al sol ^[2]
• León de Greiff, Obras completas, with a preliminary study by Jorge Zalamea (Colombia) ^[2]
• Carlos García-Prada, editor, Escala del sueño, anthology of 35 Castilian lyrical poets ^[2]
• Elías Nandino, Nocturna palabra (Mexico) ^[2]

Criticism, scholarship and biography

• Emilio Armaza, Eguren, an anthology and analysis of the Peruvian poet's verse ^[2]
• Antonio Oliver Belmás, Este otro Rubén Darío ^[2]
• Gastón Figueira, De la vida y la obra de Gabriela Mistral ^[2]
• Manuel Pedro González, editor, Antología crítica de José Marti , including writing by Darío, Gabriela Mistral, Unamuno, and Onís ^[2]
• Glen L. Kolb, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, "A Study of the Life, Times and Poetry of a Spanish Colonial Satirist" ^[2]
• Eduardo Neale-Silva, Horizonte humano, the first detailed biographical study of the Colombian poet José Eustasio Rivera ^[2]
• 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 ^[2]

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 ^[20]
• Haim Gouri, Shoshanat Ruhot ("Compass Rose"), Israeli writing in Hebrew
• Jess Ørnsbo, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark ^[21]
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Konfrontation, Denmark ^[21]
• Kedarnath Singh, Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Allahabad: Natya Sahitya Prakashan; India, Hindi ^[22]

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: St. John Perse (France)

United Kingdom

• Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman

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

Prizes from other nations

• First State Poetry Price (Greece): Odysseus Elytis
• Prix Dante (France): Pierre Jean Jouve ^[23]
• Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Winter Sun, Margaret Avison ^[24]
• Canada: Governor General's Award, Poésie et théâtre: Poèmes, Anne Hébert ^[24]

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
• April 1 – Frieda Hughes, English-born poet, children's writer and painter
• May 5 - Thomas Boberg, Danish poet and travel writer
• August 31 – Makarand Paranjape, Indian poet
• October 30 – Kathleen Flenniken, American writer, poet, editor and educator
• December 22 – Elvis McGonagall, born Richard Smith, Scottish-born slam poet
• Jeffery Donaldson, Canadian poet, critic and theorist
• Katrina Porteous, Scottish-born poet
• Dipti Saravanamuttu, Sri Lankan-Australian poet, academic, journalist and script writer, moves to Australia as a child in 1972
• Alexis Stamatis, Greek poet
• Karenne Wood, Native American poet

Deaths

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

• January 4 – Nima Yooshij, 62 (born 1897), Iranian poet
• January 14 – Ralph Chubb, 77 (born 1892), English poet, printer and artist
• February 21 – Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (born 1896), New Zealand poet
• February 28 – F. S. Flint (born 1885), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
• March 23 – Franklin Pierce Adams, 78 (born 1881), American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers, translator of poetry
• May 30 – Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 1958, lung cancer
• June 17 – Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French poet
• August 8 – Harry Kemp, 76 (born 1883), American poet
• August 19 – Frances Cornford (born 1886), English poet
• August 25 – David Diop (born 1927), French West African poet, air crash
• October 9 – Fannie B. Linderman, 85 (born 1875), American poet, writer, educator, entertainer
• October 28 – Margarita Abella Caprile (born 1901), Argentine poet
• October 31 – H. L. Davis, 66 (born 1894), American fiction writer and poet
• November 5 – Richard Rudzitis, 62 (born 1898), Latvian poet, writer and philosopher
• November 9 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (born 1886), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet and playwright
• December 25 – H. W. Garrod, 81 (born 1878), English literary scholar

See also

• Poetry portal

• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

References

1. "Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison". The Times . No. 54869. London. 1960-09-06. p. 6.
2. Britannica Book of the Year 1961, covering events of 1960, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1961; articles: American Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Soviet Literature, Obituaries
3. Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
4. Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN   978-0-391-03286-6, retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
5. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 250, Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN   0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010
6. Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 325, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN   81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 10, 2010
7. Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 512, 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. 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. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   978-0-19-860634-5
10. 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
11. 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)
12. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN   978-0-393-09357-5
13. Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
14. News release, "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize" Archived June 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
15. Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
16. Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
17. Web page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French). Retrieved October 20, 2010.
18. Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
19. 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   978-0-394-52197-8
20. 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
21. "Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
22. Web page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
23. Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
24. "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine ", Canada Council. Web, Feb. 10, 2011. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E22B9A3C-5906-41B8-B39C-F91F58B3FD70/0/cumulativewinners2010rev.pdf Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine