1940 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
Years in literature:	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
Decades in poetry:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943

[edit] Events

Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

W.H. Auden, Another Time
Sir John Betjeman, Old Lights for New Chancels
T.S. Eliot, East Coker, published in New English Weekly
Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York published posthumously this year (written in 1930; first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
Hugh MacDiarmid, editor, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
Kenneth Rexroth, In What Hour?
Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

May 24 — Joseph Brodsky born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky in Russia, a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992)
September 8 — Jack Prelutsky, American poet noted for his children's poems
October 20 — Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
date not known:
- Douglas Barbour
- Martha Collins (poet)
- Fanny Howe, American poet, novelist and short story writer
- Angela De Hoyos
- Gary Hyland
- Paul Mariani
- David W. McFadden

January 5 — Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
March 4 — Hamlin Garland American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
March 7 — Edwin Markham, American poet.
August 21 — Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat
September 26 — W. H. Davies, Welsh poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom