1948 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 6 – Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding. Summer – Composer Richard Strauss sets three short poems by Hermann Hesse to music; they become part of his valedictory Four Last Songs, his final works before his death in 1949. September 17 – The remains of Irish poet W. B. Yeats (who died at Menton, France in 1939) are re-buried at Drumcliffe, County Sligo, "Under bare Ben Bulben's head", having been moved from the original burial place, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on Irish Naval Service corvette LÉ Macha. His grave at Drumcliffe, with an epitaph from "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems ("Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horseman, pass by"), becomes a place of literary pilgrimage Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduces the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at this time to the novelist John Clellon Holmes Di Goldene Keyt, an Israeli literary quarterly, is founded The Bollingen Prize is established by Paul Mellon, funded by a $10,000 grant from the Bollingen Foundation to the Library of Congress. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Earle Birney, The Strait of Anian. Toronto: Ryerson Press. Roy Daniels, Deeper into the Forest Robert Finch, The Strength of the Hills A. M. Klein, The Rocking Chair and Other Poems. Governor General's Award 1948. Irving Layton, Now Is The Place: Stories and Poems. Montreal: First Statement Press. Douglas Le Pan, The Wounded Prince L. A. MacKay, The Ill-Tempered Lover A. J. M. Smith, editor, The Book of Canadian Poetry, anthology (see also editions of 1943, 1957) Arthur Stringer, New York Nocturnes. Toronto: Ryerson. Bimal Chandra Bose, Gandhi-Gita ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.