Awards and Honors
- Nobel Prize for Literature: T. S. Eliot
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Leonie Adams appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Percy MacKaye
- Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Rocking Chair and Other Poems, A.M. Klein
- North Carolina Poet Laureate: Arthur Talmage Abernethy (the first one to hold the office)
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