Modern American Poetry

(^464) Chronology
1952 Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man. Willem de Kooning: Woman and
Bicycle. Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems. W.S. Merwin: A
Mask for Janus. Frank O’Hara: A City Winter and Other Poems.
1953: Randall Jarrell: Poetry and the Age. Charles Olson: In Cold
Hell, in Thicket. Robert Penn Warren: Brother to Dragons.
1954 Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems. William Carlos Williams:
The Desert Music.
1955 Ezra Pound: Rock Drill. Allen Ginsberg: Howl. Randall
Jarrell: Selected Poems. A.R. Ammons: Ommateum. Death of
Wallace Stevens.
1956 John Ashbery: Some Trees.
1957 Samuel Beckett: Endgame.
1959 Robert Lowell: Life Studies.
1960 Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems.
1961 Death of H.D. Ezra Pound: Thrones.
1962 John Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate. Deaths of
Robinson Jeffers, William Faulkner, and E.E. Cummings.
Robert Frost: In the Clearing. William Carlos Williams:
Pictures from Brueghel.
1963 Deaths of Robert Lee Frost and William Carlos Williams.
1964 Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast. Frank O’Hara: Lunch
Poems. Theodore Roethke: The Far Field.
1965 Malcolm X assassinated. George Oppen: This in Which.
Death of T.S. Eliot.
1966 Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49. Gwendolyn
Brooks: We Real Cool. James Merrill: Nights and Days.
Robert Penn Warren: Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-
1966. Robert Hayden: Selected Poems.
1967 Deaths of Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and Carl
August Sandburg. Marianne Moore: Complete Poems. W.S.
Merwin: The Lice.
1968 Martin Luther King assassinated. First manned landing on
the moon. Louise Bogan: The Blue Estuaries 1923-1968.
Death of Yvor Winters.
1970 Death of Louise Bogan.
1972 Deaths of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Edmund
Wilson.