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Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry. ==Events== * January 19 - Starting this year, and continuing to at least 2009, an anonymous black-clad person, who enters popular lore as the Poe Toaster, appears in Baltimore at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground tomb of American poet Edgar Allan Poe early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The man toasts Poe with Cognac and leaves three red roses at the grave (along with the remainder of the Cognac).〔Kennedy, Randy, ("Edgar 'Poe Toaster' Is a No-Show" ), January 19, 2010, "Arts Beat" column, p C2, ''The New York Times'', retrieved same day.〕 * February 19 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University provoking a storm of criticism because of his pro-Fascist activities before and during World War II. * March - Pablo Neruda flees Chile over the Lilpela Pass through the Andes to Argentina on horseback carrying a manuscript of his ''Canto General''. * April 14 - Roy Campbell punches Stephen Spender on the nose at a poetry reading in London. * Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar writes his last poem, "Cemara Menderai Sampai Jauh" ("Fir Trees Are Sown Off Into the Distance"), prior to his death aged 26 on April 28. * Greek Communist poet Yannis Ritsos, incarcerated during the Communist–centrist/rightist struggle in the Greek Civil War, writes poems which will ultimately see publication twenty-six years later, in the 1975 book, ''Petrinos khronos''. * George Hill Dillon, editor of the journal ''Poetry'' since 1937, relinquishes his post. * First issue of ''Caribbean Quarterly'', the flagship journal on culture edited at the University of the West Indies, spotlights Caribbean poetry.〔("Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" ) in Williams, Emily Allen, ''Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography'', page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1949 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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