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Encyclopedia > 1919 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
Years in literature: 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
Decades in poetry: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
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// July 14 — At the first public soiree at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, Hugo Ball recited the first Dada manifesto (see text). ... // The Egoist Wilfred Owen, a soldier in World War I, writes Dulce et Decorum Est (published posthumously in 1921). ... // Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. ... 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. ... See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature. ... See also: 1920 in literature, other events of 1921, 1922 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1921 in literature, other events of 1922, 1923 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. ... 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. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Events

The Egoist, goes defunct
The Egoist, goes defunct

Image File history File linksMetadata Egoist1914_72. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Egoist1914_72. ... The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce. ... E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22, 1899 [O.S. April 10], Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ... The Egoist was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 – 13 December 1960) was an English feminist activist, an editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings. ... James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...

Works published

  • Edwin James Brady, The House of the Winds
  • Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Notes on Thought and Vision written, published posthumously in 1982
  • T.S. Eliot, Ara Vos Prec, including "Gerontion" and the poems later published in Poems – 1920; his "Tradition and the Individual Talent" appears in The Egoist
  • Ezra Pound, Homage to Sextus Propertius

H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... Egoist may mean an egoist, someone with a philosophical self-involvement amounting to egoism (who may or may not be an egotist, i. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ...

Births

T.S. Eliot in 1919
T.S. Eliot in 1919

Image File history File links Tseliot. ... Image File history File links Tseliot. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988), was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation. ... The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ... The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centred around that city and which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetic avant-garde. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... William Morris Meredith, Jr. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in leap years). ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is a poet who is best known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... May Swenson (May 28, 1913 - December 4, 1989) was a United States poet and playwright. ... // Dead Poets Society, a film with excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitmans lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, O Captain! My Captain! My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography Edward... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...

Deaths

Djuna Barnes, ca. 1919.
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Djuna Barnes, ca. 1919.

Djuna Barnes [1] [2] [3] (June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing by women and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role... Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919) was an American philosopher and poet. ... William Wilfred Campbell (1 June 1858 - 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet Born in Newmarket, Canada West (not Berlin, present-day Kitchener, Ontario as is often recorded), the son of a clergyman, Campbell attended high school in Owen Sound. ... Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850–October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. ...

Awards

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884-July 14, 1978) was a U.S. author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1919. ... Carl Sandburg in 1955 Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. ...

See also

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