1909 in literature

none 1909 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1909. Events January – T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism. January 15 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama La donna è mobile opens at the Teatro Alfieri, Turin.Marianne W Martin Futurist Art and Theory, 1909-1915 Hacker Art Books 1978 9780878171927 44 February 1 – The first issue appears of La Nouvelle Revue Française, a literary magazine founded in Paris by André Gide, Jacques Copeau, Jean Schlumberger, Gaston Gallimard, and others.La Nouvelle Revue française (NRF) 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica 2010-07-21 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/420933/La-Nouvelle-Revue-francaise February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto first appears in the French newspaper Le Figaro. March 2 – Katherine Mansfield, while pregnant by another man, marries the singing teacher George Bowden, whom she barely knows. She leaves him the same evening to resume lesbian relations with Ida Baker.https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Whi071Kota-t1-g1-t8.html Katherine Mansfield, 1888–1923 Joanna Woods Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Notes and Queries 7 1 63–98 2007 2015-12-03 April The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama Le Roi bombance (The Feasting King, written 1905) is heckled by the audience and the writer himself. The German periodical Die Tat is founded by Ernst Horneffer.Ernst Horneffer: Unsere Ziele, in: Die Tat, 1. Jg., Heft 1 (April/1909), p. 1 (German) April 24 – The Metropolitan Library (zh-Hans-CN 京师图书馆, Jīngshī Túshūguǎn) in Beijing, predecessor of the National Library of China, is founded by the Qing government. September 6 – Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot opens in New York City. September 23 – Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois. September 29 – Franz Kafka's short story "The Aeroplanes at Brescia (Die Aeroplane in Brescia)", based on a real event, is published in the Prague newspaper Bohemia, as the first description of airplanes in German literature.Wagenbach, Klaus :de:Klaus Wagenbach Franz Kafka, in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten 73 Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek 1964 3-499-50091-4 November – A production by Kaoru Osanai of Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Free Theater in Tokyo inaugurates shingeki drama in Japan.Columbia University Press 2014 Introduction The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama M. Cody Poulton https://doi.org/10.7312/rime12830-002 November 2 – First English-language performance of a play by Anton Chekhov opens, The Seagull, translated and directed by George Calderon, by the Glasgow Repertory Theatre company at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow.A Čexov Anniversary The Slavic and East European Journal Spring 1960 Robert Tracy 4 1 25–34 10.2307/304054 304054 unknown date – Babelstornið (The Tower of Babel), by Rasmus Rasmussen, writing as Regin í Líð, becomes the first Faroese language novel to be published.Faroese Short Stories https://books.google.com/books?id=q23K5g73EjMC&pg=PA7 1972 Ardent Media 7 New books Fiction Florence Barclay – The RosaryQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 Maurice Barrès – Colette Baudoche André Billy – La Derive Algernon Blackwood The Education of Uncle Paul Jimbo: A Fantasy René Boylesve – La Jeune Fille bien élevée (The Well-raised Girl) Hall Caine – The White Prophet Gilbert Cannan – Peter Homunculus Ion Luca Caragiale – Kir Ianulea Robert W. Chambers – The Danger Mark Herbert Croly – The Promise of American Lifehttps://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/herbert-d-croly-apostle-progressivism https://web.archive.org/web/20170212023453/http://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/herbert-d-croly-apostle-progressivism unfit February 12, 2017 Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism Pearson Sidney The Heritage Foundation en February 25, 2020 Em Kol Chai (Chava Shapiro) – Kovetz Tziurim (קבץ ציורים, A Collection of Sketches) Concha Espina – That Luzmela Girl Charles Hoy Fort – The Outcast Manufacturers Anatole France – Balthazar Jacques Futrelle – Elusive Isabel John Galsworthy – Fraternity Charles Garvice – A Fair Impostor Robert Hichens – Bella Donna Olha Kobylianska – V Nediliu Rano Zillia Kopala (She Gathered Herbs on Sunday Morning) Alfred Kubin – Die andere Seite (The Other Side) Maurice Leblanc – The Hollow Needle Gaston Leroux – Le fauteuil hanté (The Haunted Chair) Jack London – Martin EdenBaskett Sam S. Martin Eden: Jack London's Poem of the Mind Modern Fiction Studies Spring 1976 22 1 23–36 26280173?seq=1 John Masefield – Multitude and Solitude Silas Weir Mitchell – The Red City Baroness Orczy The Nest of the Sparrowhawk The Old Man in the Corner Randall Parrish – My Lady of the South Eden Phillpotts – The HavenMeadowcroft, Charles William. The Place of Eden Phillpotts in English Peasant Drama. University of Pennsylvania, 1924. Page 7. Luigi Pirandello – I vecchi e i giovani (The Old and the Young, part 1) Władysław Reymont – Chłopi (The Peasants; publication completed)http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/present.html Critical Essay Per Hallström March 20, 2021 Stein Riverton – Jernvognen (The Iron Carriage) Olivia Shakespear – Uncle Hilary Gertrude Stein – Three Lives Gene Stratton-Porter – A Girl of the Limberlost Hermann Sudermann – The Song of Songs Mark Twain – Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (book publication) Edgar Wallace Captain Tatham of Tatham Island The Duke in the Suburbs Robert Walser – Jakob von Gunten Mary Augusta Ward – Daphne H. G. Wells Ann Veronica Tono-Bungay Mabel Osgood Wright – Poppea of the Post Office Children and young people L. Frank Baum The Road to Oz Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work (as Edith Van Dyne) Angela Brazil – The Nicest Girl in the School Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Avonlea Beatrix Potter The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies The Tale of Ginger and Pickles P. G. Wodehouse – Mike Drama thumb|Poster by Oskar Kokoschka advertising the première of his play Paul Armont and Nicolas Nancey – Théodore et Cie Sem Benelli – The Jester's Supper (La cena delle beffe) Clyde Fitch – The City John Galsworthy – Strife Harley Granville-Barker – The Madras House Cicely Hamilton – A Pageant of Great Women Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Khwab-e-Hasti (The Dream World of Existence) Oskar Kokoschka – Murderer, the Hope of Women (Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen) Else Lasker-Schüler – Die Wupper (published) André de Lorde – L'horrible expérience Gregorio Martínez Sierra – La sombra del padre (Shadow of the Father) Ferenc Molnár – Liliom Quintero brothers – El patinillo George Bernard Shaw – The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet Poetry 1909 in poetry Guillaume Apollinaire – L'Enchanteur pourrissant (The Putrifying Enchanter) François Mauriac – Les Mains jointes (Clasped Hands) John Millington Synge – Poems and Translations Non-fiction Henry James – Italian Hours William James – A Pluralistic Universe Jane's All the World's Aircraft (first annual edition) I. M. E. Blandin – History of Higher Education of Women in the South, Prior to 1860American Academy of Political and Social Science Race Improvement in the United States 1909 American academy of political and social science 175 https://books.google.com/books?id=hIITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175 26 November 2023 en Alfred W. Pollard – Shakespeare Folios and Quartos: a Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594–1685Greg, W.W. 'Pollard, Alfred William' in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) C. I. Scofield (ed.) – Scofield Reference Bible The Scofield Study Bible III, KJV: How to use this study Bible Oxford University Press 2003 9780199723874 https://books.google.com/books?id=FCPBVjNnF2oC&pg=PR11 2015-12-10 Charlotte Fell Smith – John Dee, 1527–1608 Eraclie Sterian – În noaptea nunții (On Your Wedding Night) A. E. Waite – The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal Alice Zimmern – Women's Suffrage in Many Lands Births January 20 – Mae Virginia Cowdery, African American poet (died 1953) January 18 – Oskar Davičo, Serbian novelist and poet (died 1989) January 29 – Phoebe Hesketh (Phoebe Rayner), English poet (died 2005) February 15 – Miep Gies (Hermine Santruschitz), Austrian-born biographer (died 2010) February 24 – August Derleth, American anthologist (died 1971) March 6 – Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish aphorist and poet (died 1966) March 17 – Margiad Evans, Anglo-Welsh poet, novelist and illustrator (died 1958) March 22 – Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian author (died 1983) March 28 – Nelson Algren, American novelist (died 1981) March 31 – Robert Brasillach, French author (died 1945) April 8 – John Fante, American novelist (died 1983) May 1 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (died 1990) May 5 – Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet (died 1944) May 9 – Robert Garioch, Scottish poet (died 1981) June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, German-born philosopher (died 1997) June 19 – Osamu Dazai (太宰 治), Japanese author (died 1948) June 28 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (died 1998) June 29 – C. Hamilton Ellis, English writer (died 1987) July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (died 1994) July 8 – Petar Šegedin, Croatian diplomat, novelist and essayist (died 1998) July 17 – G. P. Wells, English zoologist, son and co-author of H. G. Wells (died 1985) July 28 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (died 1957) July 29 – Chester Himes, American writer (died 1984) July 30 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (died 1993) August 3 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist (died 1971) August 11 – Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (died 1985) August 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (died 1983) September 9 – Noel Barber, British novelist (died 1988) October 24 – Sheila Watson (Sheila Doherty), Canadian novelist and critic (died 1998) November 12 – Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist (died 1959) November 26 – Eugène Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu), Romanian-born French playwright (died 1994) November 27 – James Agee, American writer (died 1955) December 7 – Alexandru Talex, Romanian journalist, critic and biographer (died 1998) December 14 – Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton), Welsh novelist and children's writer writing in English (died 1982) December 16 – Edgar Mittelholzer, Guyanese novelist (suicide 1965) Deaths January 1 – Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, American poet, writer, and editor (born 1844) January 14 – William à Beckett, English journalist (born 1844) January 22 – Hattie Tyng Griswold, American author (born 1842) February 11 – Russell Sturgis, American art critic (born 1836) March 24 – John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist and poet (born 1871) March 27 (probable) – John Davidson, Scottish poet (born 1857) April 9 Francis Marion Crawford, American novelist (born 1854) Paschal Grousset, French journalist and science fiction writer (born 1844) April 12 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (born 1837) April 21 – Denys Corbet, Guernsey poet writing in Guernsey French and English (born 1826) April 26 – Marcus Dods, Scottish theologian (born 1834) May 18 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828) June 11 – Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, American dramatist (born 1853) June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849)Edward T. James Janet Wilson James Paul S. Boyer Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary Cambridge Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1971 274 978-0-67462-731-4 July 8 – Albert Craig (The Surrey Poet), English cricket writer (born 1850) July 9 – Rosa Nouchette Carey, English children's writer (born 1840)Jane Crisp Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1904): A Bibliography St. Lucia Department of English, University of Queensland 1989 2 9780867763607 August 15 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer, shot (born 1866) August 18 – Theodore Martin, Scottish-born writer (born 1816) August 21 – George Cabot Lodge, American poet (born 1873)Henry Brooks Adams Henry Brooks Adams The Life of George Cabot Lodge https://archive.org/details/lifegeorgecabot01adamgoog 1911 August 23 – Liu E (劉鶚, Liu O), Chinese scholar, entrepreneur and novelist (born 1857) August 26 – George Manville Fenn, English novelist and educationalist (born 1831) September 4 – Clyde Fitch, American playwright (born 1865) September 19 – József Borovnyák, Slovene writer, politician and priest (born 1826) October 16 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Upper Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator (born 1856) October 24 – Henry Charles Lea, American historian (born 1825) November 5 – H. L. Fischer, Pennsylvania German-language writer and translator (born 1822)Earl C. Haag A Pennsylvania German Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=UAuw2OmZBUMC&pg=PA68 1988 Susquehanna University Press 978-0-945636-00-7 68 November 18 – Renée Vivien, English-born French-language Symbolist poet (born 1877) December 14 – Frederick Greenwood, English novelist and journalist (born 1830) Awards Chancellor's Gold Medal: Dennis Holme Robertson Nobel Prize in Literature: Selma Lagerlöf (first female recipient) Newdigate Prize: Frank Ashton-Gwatkin Knighthood: Arthur Wing Pinero Prix Goncourt: Marius-Ary Leblond, En FranceKatherine Ashley Prix Goncourt, 1903-2003: essais critiques https://books.google.com/books?id=QA_rVRar1JkC&pg=PA59 2004 Peter Lang 978-3-03910-018-7 59 fr References 30em External links Popular Books of 1909 at Goodreads Published 1909 Books at Goodreads 1909 Books at Goodreads