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W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country
T. S. Eliot begins his 1932-33 Norton lectures at Harvard (published in 1933 as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism).

W. H. Auden, The Orators
Boris Pasternak, The Second Birth
Sterling Brown, Southern Road
T. S. Eliot, Sweeney Agonistes and Selected Essays
Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other Poems of a Biologist
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, The Javed Nama (Book of Eternity) in Persian, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy
F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry attacks late Victorian and Georgian poetry and praises Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and other modernists
Giorgos Seferis, Στέρνα (The Cistern)
William Carlos Williams, The Cod Head
W. B. Yeats, Words for Music Perhaps

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 19 – George Mann MacBeth (died 1992) Scottish poet and novelist
February 6 – Shankha Ghosh (born 11932), Bengali poet and critic
March 16 – Harold Monro (died 1932), (died 1932 in poetry|1932]]), ] English poet, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
March 18 – John Updike, American novelist, writer and poet
May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English
June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic at Boston University
June 29 – Philip Hobsbaum (died 2005) English teacher, poet and critic
August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, who died in 1967fighting for the independence of Biafra
October 20 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwright
October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet and playwright
October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American
Date not known:
- Jergen Becker, German^[1]
- Patrick Cullinan, South African
- Douglas Livingstone, (died 1996) South African poet born in Malaysia
- Linda Pastan, American
- Eugene Perkins, African American
- Peter William Redgrove (died 2003), British poet, novelist, playwright, and author of books on women's health
- Linda M. Stitt, Canadian
- Rosemary Tonks, British

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

March 16 – Harold Monro, 53 (born 1879), British poet and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public
April 27 – Hart Crane, 32, American poet, by suicide
October 5 – Christopher Brennan, 61, Australian poet.
Date not known:
- Hubert N. W. Church
- Edmund Vance Cooke
- Raymond Knister, Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet who drowned in a swimming accident
- Clinton Scollard

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^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006