1934 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. September – T. S. Eliot (with his first love, Emily Hale) visits the English Cotswolds manor house and garden which gives rise to his poem Burnt Norton.
1921 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March — Jorge Luis Borges returns to his birthplace, Buenos Aires in Argentina, after a period living with his family in Europe. August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov.
1939 in poetry— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1936 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – Canadian Poetry Magazine first published by the Canadian Authors Association, with E. J. Pratt's active involvement. It becomes associated with more traditional poetry, very popular in Canada at this time. May In Nazi Germany, the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacks the expressionist and experimental poetry of German Gottfried Benn as degenerate, Jewish and homosexual.
1933 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of New Verse in London (1933–39). January–March – New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic. June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape". May 9 – A. E.