// H. E. Monro edits The Poetry Review, journal of the Poetry Recital Society Harriet Munroe founds Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago (with Ezra Pound as foreign editor); in 1912 she described its policy this way: Ezra Pound, during a meeting with his one-time fiancee Hilda Doolittle in... See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1913 in literature, other events of 1914, 1915 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1915 in literature, other events of 1916, 1917 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... // First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Events

• The poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle.
• Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."
• Ezra Pound begins writing The Cantos
• Others: A Magazine of the New Verse founded by Alfred Kreymborg in July, it will run until 1917, publishing poetry, other writing, and visual art

The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) was a British poet of World War I. He was the son and heir of Lord Desborough, and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. ... Sergei Yesenin Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled Esenin (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Есе́нин; October 3, 1895 [O.S. September 21] – December 28, 1925) was a famous Russian lyrical poet. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Alfred Francis Kreymborg (1883–1966) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist. ...

Works published

A small portion of "In Flanders Fields" appeared alongside McCrae's portrait on a Canadian stamp of 1968, issued to commemorate a half-century since his death.

• Richard Aldington, Images 1910-1915
• Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women, her first book of poems, which she described as a collection of "rhythms and drawings"
• Rupert Brooke, 1914 & Other Poems
• Adelaide Crapsey, Verse, and her invention of the quintain, a five-line form
• T. S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in Poetry magazine in Chicago
• Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain," on the sinking of the Titanic
• Francis Ledwidge - Songs of the Fields
• Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
• May 3 - "In Flanders Fields", a war memorial poem, is written by Canadian poet John McCrae after his friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in battle (McCrae himself would not survive the war); later in the year the poem is published in Punch
• Ezra Pound, Cathay
• Edith Sitwell, The Mother and Other Poems
• Some Imagist Poets anthology, including Hilda Doolittle's "Oread"

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Awards

Cover of a 1915 wartime number of the Vorticist magazine BLAST

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x760, 158 KB)The cover of the second (and last) edition of BLAST, by Wyndham Lewis and friends. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x760, 158 KB)The cover of the second (and last) edition of BLAST, by Wyndham Lewis and friends. ... Wyndham Lewis Vorticism was a short lived British art movement of the early 20th century. ... The cover of the first edition of BLAST was bold and shocking to its potential readership in 1914. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944) was a French writer. ...

Births

• July 1 — Alun Lewis, war poet
• July 7 — Margaret Walker, poet and novelist
• November 8 — G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
• December 22 — David Martin
• December 27 — John Cornford

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... Alun Lewis (July 1, 1915 - March 5, 1944), was a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 7, 1915-November 30, 1998) was an American poet and author born in Birmingham, Alabama. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... George Sutherland Fraser (8 November 1915 - 3 January 1980) was a Scottish poet and literary critic, and academic. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... David Martin (22 December 1915 - 1 July 1997), known as a Australian poet, was born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austro-Hungary). ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Rupert John Cornford (27 December 1915 – 28 December 1936) was an English poet and communist. ...

Deaths

• January 3 — James Elroy Flecker, 28, English poet, novelist and dramatist, from tuberculosis in Switzerland
• date not known:
  • Stuart Merrill, American poet who wrote in French and belonged to the Symbolist school.
  • Eric Roach of Tobago

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Killed in World War I

• April 23 — Rupert Brooke; English poet and writer, died from septic pneumonia from an infected mosquito bite while saling with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force off the island of Lemnos in the Aegean on its way to Gallipoli
• May 26 — Julian Grenfell, war poet, killed at Ypres
• October 13 — Charles Hamilton Sorley, 20, British poet, shot in the head by a sniper, at the Battle of Loos in France

April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... A statue of Rupert Brooke in Rugby Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 – April 23, 1915) was a British poet best known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) was a British poet of World War I. He was the son and heir of Lord Desborough, and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Charles Hamilton Sorley (May 19, 1895 - October 13, 1915) was a British poet of World War I. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908-1913). ... The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. The battle was the British component of the combined Anglo-French offensive known as the Second Battle of Artois. ...

See also

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• List of years in poetry