Events
- Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review
- Publication of American literary theorist William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr.'s collected essays Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry, including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley.
- Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
- January 25 — Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is broadcast on BBC Radio.
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