Poems of the late 1940's?

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aidan402 · Accepted Answer

Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle 
Elizabeth Bishop, North and South 
Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son
Allen Tate, The Winter Sea

Patrick R · Answer

Pulitzer Prizes from 1945 through 1949:

    * 1949: Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
    * 1948: The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
    * 1947: Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
    * 1946: no award given
    * 1945: V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

New Yorker archives from 1945 through 1949 (abstracts only):

http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=poem&submit.x=25&submit.y=14&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=01&day1=01&year1=1945&month2=12&day2=31&year2=1949&page=&sort=

Atlantic Monthly archives from 1945 through 1949 (abstracts only):

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/theatlantic/results.html?st=advanced&QryTxt=poem&type=current&sortby=REVERSE_CHRON&datetype=6&frommonth=01&fromday=1&fromyear=1945&tomonth=12&today=28&toyear=1949&By=&Title=

At least the abstracts (title, author, maybe first line) give you some idea of the poems to look for, esp. if they're some of your favorite poets.

DAR76 · Answer

Look into Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot and William Carlos Williams.

Homeboy · Answer

T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", dated 1945, is one of the most important works of the century.

Caspare B · Answer

yeah WWII, many people just trying to survive those years.

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