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| 1942 |
| | | US poet Randall Jarrell publishes his first collection, Blood for a Stranger | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Boston writer Robert Lowell publishes his first book of poems, Land of Unlikeness | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Robert Lowell's second collection, Lord Weary's Castle, contains 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket' and 'Mr Edwards and the Spider' | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Ezra Pound, charged with treason for his wartime broadcasts, begins twelve years in a US hospital for the criminally insane | |
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| 1946 |
| | | US poet Elizabeth Bishop publishes her first collection of poems, North and South | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US poet Theodore Roethke publishes The Lost Son, his second collection | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes Pisan Cantos, about his postwar imprisonment in an American detention centre near Pisa | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coins a term for his contemporaries, the Beat Generation | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Annie Allen, by US author Gwendolyn Brooks, describes in narrative verse the life of a black girl in contemporary USA | |
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