1932 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • 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).

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