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Five Young American Poets
''Five Young American Poets'' was a three volume series of poetry anthologies released from 1940 to 1944. The series was published by New Directions Publishers (Norfolk, Connecticut; James Laughlin, publisher). Volume I - 1940 includes selected poetry by: * W. R. Moses * Randall Jarrell * George Marion O'Donnell * John Berryman * Mary Barnard Reviews.Daniel, Robert. "A Glimpse of the Future." The Sewanee Review 49, no. 4 (1941): 553-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27535837.J. C. R. "Constellation of Five Young Poets." The Kenyon Review 3, no. 3 (1941): 377-80. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4332268. Volume II - 1941 includes selected poetry by: * Clark Mills * Karl Shapiro * David Schubert * Jeanne McGahey * Paul Goodman Volume III - 1944 includes selected poetry by: * Eve Merriam * John Frederick Nims * Jean Garrigue * Tennessee Williams * Alejandro Carrión Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Merriam
Eve Merriam (July 19, 1916 – April 11, 1992) was an American poet and writer. Writing career Merriam's first book was the 1946 ''Family Circle'', which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book, ''The Inner City Mother Goose'', was described as one of the most banned books of the time.Biography of Eve Merriam at the Academy of American Poets poets.org. Accessed November 6, 2022. It inspired a 1971 called ''Inner City'', later revived in 1982 under the title ''Street Dreams''. In 1956, she pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Of Books
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Anthologies
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
