Nationality 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.
September 21 – The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning, is released in the United States; remade in 1957, less successfully
Bengali poet Buddhadeb Bosu marries singer and writer Protiva Bose (née Ranu Shome).
The University Review is founded at the University of Kansas City. The publication is later called New Letters.
West Indian Review founded.
Kenneth Leslie, Windward Rock: Poems. New York: Macmillan.
Tom MacInnes, High Low Along.
Frederick George Scott, Collected Poems. Vancouver: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd.
Charles G.D. Roberts, The Iceberg and Other Poems. (Toronto: Ryerson).
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Leather Bottle
Seranus, Penelope and Other Poems (Toronto: Author).
Sri Aurobindo, Six Poems ( Poetry in English ), Chandernagore: Rameshwar and Co.
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Cross Road ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Shama's Publishing House
P. R. Kaikini, Flower Offerings ( Prose poems in English ) ; Bombay: Bombay Book Depot
E. E. Speight, editor, Indian Masters of English ( Poetry in English ), London: Longmans, Green; anthology; published in the United Kingdom
Edmund Blunden, Choice or Chance
Maud Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns of Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination, criticism
Lilian Bowes Lyon, The White Hare
Roy Campbell, Broken Record, the first version of his autobiography; South African native published in the United Kingdom
Helen Cruickshank, Up the Noran Water, Scottish poet
Lawrence Durrell, Transition
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
William Golding, Poems
Pauline Gower, Piffling Poems for Pilots
I. M. and H. Hubbard, The War Resisters, and Other Poems
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