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1950
 
    
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general       
1953
 
    
US author James Baldwin publishes his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, set in Harlem       
1955
 
    
English poet Philip Larkin finds his distinctive voice in his collection The Less Deceived       
1956
 
    
English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylvia Plath       
1956
 
     
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is prosecuted and acquitted for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl        
1957
 
     
The Hawk in the Rain is English author Ted Hughes' first volume of poems        
1957
 
    
English author Stevie Smith publishes her collection of poems Not Waving but Drowning       
1960
 
   
The Colossus is US author Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems      
1960
 
    
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail is the first of many collections of poems by US poet Charles Bukowski       
1960
 
    
English poet John Betjeman publishes his long autobiographical poem Summoned by Bells