Events
- January – Last issue of The Criterion is published
- January – The Kenyon Review is established by John Crowe Ransom
- January/February – Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism, founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published
- February 17 – Gunga Din, a film directed by George Stevens, based loosely on Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name, is released in the United States
- Carl Rakosi begins a 28-year hiatus from writing poetry
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