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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * April – Wallace Stevens is baptized a Catholic by the chaplain of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, where Stevens spends his last days suffering from terminal cancer. After a brief release from the hospital, Stevens is readmitted and dies on August 2 at the age of 76. * July 30 – Philip Larkin makes a train journey in England from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem ''The Whitsun Weddings''.〔Contrary to his later recollection of the event. 〕 His collection ''The Less Deceived'' is published at the end of the year. * The Group, a British poetry movement, starts meeting in London with gatherings taking place once a week, on Friday evenings, at first at Philip Hobsbaum's flat and later at the house of Edward Lucie-Smith. The poets gather to discuss each other's work, putting into practice the sort of analysis and objective comment in keeping with the principles of Hobsbaum's Cambridge tutor F. R. Leavis and of the New Criticism in general. Before each meeting about six or seven poems by one poet are typed, duplicated and distributed to the dozen or so participants. * The Movement poets as a group in Britain come to public notice this year in Robert Conquest's anthology ''New Lines''. The core of the group consists of Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Jennings, D. J. Enright, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn and Donald Davie. They are identified with a hostility to modernism and internationalism, and look to Thomas Hardy as a model. However, both Davie and Gunn later move away from this position. * Henry Rago〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Henry Rago 1915-1969, Poet and Professor )〕 becomes editor of ''Poetry'' magazine in the United States. 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「1955 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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