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Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht , of the World War II generation , Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.
W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944, published March 9; English poet living in the United States at this time [10] George Barker, The True Confession of George Barker [11] Basil Bunting, Poems: 1950 [10] Norman Cameron, Forgive Me, Sire, and Other Poems [10] Walter de la Mare, Inward Companion, published in October [10]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Mona Van Duyn; Whiting Awards: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright; William Carlos Williams Award: Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Howard
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
March — Jorge Luis Borges returns to his birthplace, Buenos Aires in Argentina, after a period living with his family in Europe. August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including ...
Kenneth Rexroth (translator), 30 Spanish Poems of Love and Exile and (translator), 100 Poems from the Chinese; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems [18] Marianne Moore, Like a Bulwark [18] Gertrude Stein, Stanzas in meditation and Other Poems (1929–1933) [18] Peter Viereck, The Persimmon Tree [18] John Hall Wheelock, Poems Old and New [18]
National Book Award for Poetry: Richard Wilbur, Things of this World; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur; Bollingen Prize: Allen Tate; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Conrad Aiken; Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry: May Swenson; Yale Series of Younger Poets Award: James Wright for The Green Wall
Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems; Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems [10] Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States; John Heath-Stubbs: Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press; A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas; Time ...