1917 in literature

none 1917 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1917. Events thumb|Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917 January Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona. Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth, "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight guidelines for writers. J. R. R. Tolkien, on medical leave from the British Army at Great Haywood, begins The Book of Lost Tales (the first version of The Silmarillion), starting with the "Fall of Gondolin". This first chronicles Tolkien's mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium in prose.J. R. R. Tolkien Chronology http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/tolkienchronology.htm 2013-08-27 2014-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20140713055641/http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/tolkienchronology.htm live Colin Duriez Colin Duriez J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend Oxford Lion 2012 978-0-7459-5514-8 102–6 February 4 or 5 – The English writer Hugh Kingsmill is captured in action in France.Hugh Kingsmill on the Western Front A. D. Harvey Notes and Queries 59 2012 3 10.1093/notesj/gjs087 Oxford University Press 413–416 February 16 – The publisher Boni & Liveright is founded in New York City by Horace Liveright with Albert Boni, and initiates the "Modern Library" imprint. April – Leonard and Virginia Woolf take delivery of a hand printing press needed to establish the Hogarth Press at their home in Richmond upon Thames.http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Hogarth_Press Jessica Svendsen Hogarth Press The Modernism Lab at Yale University 2010 2013-08-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20091215010724/http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Hogarth_Press 2009-12-15 dead Their first publication is Two Stories. May – W. B. Yeats acquires Thoor Ballylee in Ireland. June 4 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first for biography (for Julia Ward Howe), Jean Jules Jusserand the first for history with With Americans of Past and Present Days, and Herbert B. Swope the first for journalism for his work for the New York World. June 18 – Luigi Pirandello's drama Right You Are (if you think so) (Così è (se vi pare)) is first performed, in Milan. July – Siegfried Sassoon issues a "Soldier's Declaration" against prolonging World War I. He is sent by the military (with assistance from Robert Graves) to Edinburgh's Craiglockhart War Hospital, where Wilfred Owen introduces himself on August 18.Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried's Journey 1946 58 At Sassoon's urging, Owen writes his two great war poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est", although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. Their meeting would later inspire Stephen MacDonald's drama Not About Heroes (1982) and Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991).Merritt Moseley The Fiction of Pat Barker https://books.google.com/books?id=-lgdBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 28 May 2014 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-137-43204-9 65 Summer – The Siuru expressionist and neo-romantic literary movement in Estonia is formed by young poets and writers.Bédé, Jean Albert Edgerton, William Benbow Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature New York Columbia University Press 1980 0-231-03717-1 237 https://archive.org/details/columbiadictiona0000unse/page/237 Rubulis, Aleksis Baltic Literature https://archive.org/details/balticliterature00rubu registration South Bend, Indiana University of Notre Dame Press 1970 September 6 – At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Birkenhead, the Chairing of the Bard ceremony ends with the chair draped in black, the winner, Hedd Wyn, having died a month earlier in battle.http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/aug04e.shtml Archives Hub National Eisteddfod of Wales 2013-08-27 2014-08-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20140801075838/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/aug04e.shtml live October Ernest Hemingway takes his first job, as a reporter on The Kansas City Star. D. H. Lawrence is forced to leave Cornwall at three days' notice under terms of the Defence of the Realm Act in the United Kingdom.Partly reflected in his novel Kangaroo (1923). October 20 – The 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London, with Ezra Pound as best man, a couple of months after Yeats' proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress's daughter, Iseult Gonne, is rejected. December 25 – Jesse Lynch Williams' Why Marry?, the first drama to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre (New York). unknown dates The colonial government of the Dutch East Indies establishes the Kantoor voor de Volklectuur ("Office for People's Reading"), later renamed Balai Pustaka.Siregar Bakri Bakri Siregar 1964 Indonesian Sedjarah Sastera Indonesia History of Indonesian Literature 1 Akademi Sastera dan Bahasa "Multatuli" Jakarta 63841626 https://books.google.com/books?id=xXjiAAAAMAAJ The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher) by I. L. Peretz (died 1915) appears in Vilnius.http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ The Magician World Digital Library 1917 2013-09-30 2013-10-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20131003004642/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ live New books Fiction Elizabeth von Arnim – Christine Mariano Azuela – Los caciques (The Bosses) Henri Barbusse – Under Fire (first English language edition) E. F. Benson An Autumn Sowing Mr. Teddy Adrien Bertrand – L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide (The thunderstorm in Candide's garden) Rhoda Broughton – A Thorn in the Flesh Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars The Son of Tarzan Abraham Cahan – The Rise of David Levinsky Gilbert Cannan – The Stucco House Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay – Devdas J. Storer Clouston – The Spy in Black Mary Cholmondeley – Under One Roof Joseph Conrad – The Shadow-Line (serialization concluded and in book form) Clemence Dane – Regiment of Women Miguel de Unamuno – Abel Sánchez Ethel M. Dell – The Hundredth Chance Norman Douglas – South Wind Arthur Conan Doyle – His Last Bow (collected Sherlock Holmes stories) Jeffrey Farnol – The Definite Object Edna Ferber – Fanny Herself Anna Katharine Green – The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Zona Gale – A Daughter of the Morning Joseph Hergesheimer – The Three Black Pennys Robert Hichens – In the Wilderness Ricarda Huch – The Deruga Case (Der Fall Deruga) Henry James (died 1916) The Ivory Tower The Sense of the Past Gaston Leroux – Rouletabille at Krupp's Sinclair Lewis – The Job Jack London – Jerry of the Islands Oscar Micheaux – The Homesteader Christopher Morley – Parnassus on Wheels Baroness Orczy Lord Tony's Wife A Sheaf of Bluebells Frank L. Packard – The Adventures of Jimmie Dale David Graham Phillips – Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall Marmaduke Pickthall – Knights of Araby Ernest Poole – His Family Horacio Quiroga – Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte Henry Handel Richardson (Et Florence Robertson) – Australia Felix (first part of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony) May Sinclair – The Tree of Heaven Annie M. P. Smithson – Her Irish Heritage Hermann Sudermann – The Excursion to Tilsit (Litauische Geschichten) Ivan Tavčar – Cvetje v jeseni (Flowers in Autumn) Edgar Wallace – The Secret House Robert Walser – Der Spaziergang (The Walk) Mary Augusta Ward Missing Towards the Goal The War and Elizabeth Alec Waugh – The Loom of Youth Mary Webb – Gone to Earth Edith Wharton – Summer P. G. Wodehouse The Man with Two Left Feet (collected stories) Piccadilly Jim Children and young people Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne's House of Dreams Beatrix Potter – Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes Else Ury – Nesthäkchen and the World War Drama Leonid Andreyev – The Life of Man Guillaume Apollinaire – The Breasts of Tiresias (Les mamelles de Tirésias, written 1903, first performed) Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot – The Better 'Ole J. M. Barrie – Dear Brutus Dorothy Brandon – Wild Heather Ferdinand Bruckner – Der Herr in den Nebeln Hall Caine – The Woman Thou Gavest Me Gilbert Cannan – Everybody's Husband Jean Cocteau – Parade John Drinkwater – X = 0: A Night of the Trojan War John Galsworthy – Justice Mary P. Hamlin and George Arliss – Hamilton Georg Kaiser The Burghers of Calais (Die Bürger von Calais, written 1913, first performed) The Coral (Die Koralle) From Morning to Midnight (Von Morgens bis Mitternachts, written 1912, first performed) Somerset Maugham – Our Betters A. A. Milne – Wurzel-Flummery Luigi Pirandello – Right You Are (if you think so) Gertrude Stein – An Exercise in Analysis Ridgely Torrence – Three Plays for a Negro Theater Brita von Horn – Kring drottningen Jesse Lynch Williams – Why Marry? Poetry thumb|150px|right|Book by T. S. Eliot 1917 in poetry Lascelles Abercrombie – Emblems Of Love May Wedderburn Cannan – In War Time T. S. Eliot – Prufrock, and other observations Robert Graves – Fairies and Fusiliers Ivor Gurney – Severn and Somme James Weldon Johnson – Fifty Years and Other Poems Joseph Lee – Work-a-Day Warriors Edna St. Vincent Millay - Renascense and Other Poems Siegfried Sassoon – The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems Alan Seeger (killed in action 1916) – Poems (including "I have a rendezvous with Death") Edward Thomas (posthumously – killed in action April 9) – Poems (including "Adlestrop") William Watson – The Man Who Saw: and Other Poems Arising out of the War W. B. Yeats – The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse Non-fiction G. K. Chesterton – A Short History of England Daniel Jones – An English Pronouncing Dictionary Henry Festing Jones – Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835–1902) Theodore Wesley Koch – Books in Camp, Trench and Hospital Rudolf Otto – The Idea of the Holy (Das Heilige) Alfred W. Pollard – Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson – On Growth and Form Francis Brett Young – Marching on Tanga Births January 6 – Maeve Brennan, Irish-born short story writer and journalist (died 1993)Angela Bourke Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker https://books.google.com/books?id=bEhaAAAAMAAJ 2004 Jonathan Cape 978-0-224-06260-2 43 February 11 – Sidney Sheldon, American novelist (died 2007)Scot Peacock Contemporary Authors New Revision Series https://books.google.com/books?id=q2DK9CXyIIkC October 2001 Gale 978-0-7876-4609-7 404 February 25 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (died 1993)A brief life - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation https://www.anthonyburgess.org/about-anthony-burgess/burgess-a-brief-life/ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation 27 December 2016 28 December 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161228033234/https://www.anthonyburgess.org/about-anthony-burgess/burgess-a-brief-life/ live March 1 – Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977)Thomas Francis Parkinson Robert Lowell; a Collection of Critical Essays https://books.google.com/books?id=LvdaAAAAMAAJ 1968 Prentice-Hall 12 March 8 – Dimitrie Stelaru (Dumitru Petrescu), Romanian poet and novelist (died 1971) March 17 – Carlo Cassola, Italian novelist (died 1987)Sara Pendergast Tom Pendergast Reference Guide to World Literature: Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=OaURAQAAMAAJ 2003 St. James Press 978-1-55862-491-7 200 April 9 – Johannes Bobrowski, German author (died 1965)Johannes Bobrowski Horst Bienek Ruth Mead Selected Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=GOYPAQAAIAAJ 1971 Penguin 978-0-14-042133-0 7 April 19 – Sven Hassel (Børge Pedersen), Danish novelist (died 2012) May 16 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican fiction writer (died 1986)Nuala Finnegan Dylan Brennan Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World: Prose, Photography, Film https://books.google.com/books?id=gtIeDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 5 May 2016 Routledge 978-1-317-19606-8 51 June 7 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000)Johnson Publishing Company Jet https://books.google.com/books?id=CbYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18 18 December 2000 Johnson Publishing Company 18 1 March 2021 4 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060152/https://books.google.com/books?id=CbYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false live June 13 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (died 2005)David William Foster Augusto Roa Bastos https://books.google.com/books?id=yUgsAAAAMAAJ 1978 Twayne 978-0-8057-6348-5 9 2021-03-01 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060152/https://books.google.com/books?id=yUgsAAAAMAAJ live June 16 – Katharine Graham, American journalist (died 2001)Gale Cengage American Newspaper Publishers, 1950-1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=r8oUAQAAIAAJ 1993 Gale Research 978-0-8103-5386-2 103 2021-03-01 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060152/https://books.google.com/books?id=r8oUAQAAIAAJ live June 28 – A. E. Hotchner, American writer (died 2020)A. E. Hotchner Papa Hemingway: The Ecstasy and Sorrow https://books.google.com/books?id=GsCwAAAAIAAJ 1983 Morrow 978-0-688-02041-5 321 2021-03-01 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060158/https://books.google.com/books?id=GsCwAAAAIAAJ live July 8 – J. F. Powers, American author (died 1999)Daniel J. Casey Robert E. Rhodes Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=y1D2KCS8gfoC&pg=PA93 1 July 1989 Syracuse University Press 978-0-8156-0234-7 93 1 March 2021 4 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060152/https://books.google.com/books?id=y1D2KCS8gfoC&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q&f=false live July 15 – Robert Conquest, English-born historian and poet (died 2015)United States Congress The Soviet Union: Internal Dynamics of Foreign Policy, Present and Future : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ... https://books.google.com/books?id=GCqAvaonwOoC&pg=RA1-PA328 1978 U.S. Government Printing Office 978-0-522-85705-4 328 2021-03-01 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060152/https://books.google.com/books?id=GCqAvaonwOoC&pg=RA1-PA328#v=onepage&q&f=false live August 24 – Ruth Park, New Zealand children's writer (died 2010) October 5 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (died 2007)Steven Serafin Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers: First series https://books.google.com/books?id=HXwrAQAAMAAJ 1999 Gale Group 978-0-7876-3109-3 352 2021-03-01 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060152/https://books.google.com/books?id=HXwrAQAAMAAJ live October 24 – Denys Val Baker, Welsh writer (died 1984)R. Reginald Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974 : with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II https://books.google.com/books?id=QfEzAQAAIAAJ 1979 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-1051-3 804 October 31 – Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (died 2005)Lawrence Goldman Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA451 7 March 2013 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-967154-0 451 November 3 – Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish biographer and political writer (died 2008)Gordon Gillespie The A to Z of the Northern Ireland Conflict https://books.google.com/books?id=NFr9NteKEagC&pg=PA189 24 September 2009 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7045-1 189 November 12 – Leila Berg, English children's author and education writer (died 2015)Twentieth-century Children's Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=_DBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 10 November 1978 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-03648-6 117 November 28 – Marni Hodgkin (Marion Rous), American children's book editor (died 2015) December 14 – Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and fiction writer (suicide 1976) December 16 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English fiction writer (died 2008) December 21 Diana Athill, English author and editor (died 2019)Diana Athill Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill https://books.google.com/books?id=D1YZWY8TvDkC&pg=PT14 2010 Granta 978-1-84708-146-9 14 Heinrich Böll, German Nobel Prize winning novelist (died 1985)European Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=o4hZAAAAMAAJ 1983 Scribner 978-0-684-16594-3 3165 December 27 – Onni Palaste, Finnish novelist (died 2009)https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002624933.html Onni Palaste fi Helsingin Sanomat March 1, 2021 May 4, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060942/https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002624933.html live date unknown – Fadwa Tuqan, Palestinian poet (died 2003)Domna C. Stanton The Female Autograph: Theory and Practice of Autobiography from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=TNL3_I8XZ9wC&pg=PA187 1987 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-77121-2 187 2020-11-13 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060928/https://books.google.com/books?id=TNL3_I8XZ9wC&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q&f=false live Deaths January 15 – William De Morgan, English novelist and potter (born 1839) January 18 – Andrew Murray, South African minister, writer and teacher (born 1828)J. Gordon Melton Encyclopedia of Protestantism https://books.google.com/books?id=bW3sXBjnokkC&pg=PA390 2005 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6983-5 390 2020-11-13 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504061202/https://books.google.com/books?id=bW3sXBjnokkC&pg=PA390#v=onepage&q&f=false live January 20 – Agnes Leonard Hill, American author, journalist, enangelist, social reformer (born 1842) February – Emma Pike Ewing, American author and educator (born 1838) February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and critic (born 1848) April 3 – Arthur Graeme West, English war poet and military writer (killed in action, born 1891) April 9 Edward Thomas, British poet and prose writer (killed in action, born 1878)Matthew Hollis Hollis Matthew 2011 Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas London Faber and Faber 978-0-571-24598-7 R. E. Vernède, English war poet (killed in action, born 1875)Janet S. K. Watson Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=2lngjC7hKcAC&pg=PA43 19 February 2004 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-83153-6 43 13 November 2020 4 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060930/https://books.google.com/books?id=2lngjC7hKcAC&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false live April 14 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (born 1859) April 17 – Jane Barlow, Irish novelist and poet (born 1856) April 21 – F. C. Burnand, English dramatist and editor (born 1836)Stedman, Jane W. "Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (1836–1917)" https://web.archive.org/web/20160305121147/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32183 2016-03-05 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 8 June 2014, 10.1093/ref:odnb/32183 May 13 – Gustav Jaeger, German naturalist (born 1832) June (date unknown) - Katharine Sarah Macquoid, British novelist and travel writer (born 1824) June 1 – Joseph Ashby-Sterry, English poet and comic writer (born 1836 or 1838) June 18 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian culture critic, philosopher, and politician (born 1840)Great Britain and the East https://books.google.com/books?id=QMJCAQAAMAAJ 1917 189 2021-01-08 2024-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060928/https://books.google.com/books?id=QMJCAQAAMAAJ live July 31 Francis Ledwidge, English war poet (killed in action, born 1887)https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/101111 Casualty details—Ledwidge, Francis Edward Commonwealth War Graves Commission 19 February 2010 4 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504060937/https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/101111/francis-edward-ledwidge/ live Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet (killed in action, born 1887)http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=3790 National Library of Wales Manuscripts: Yr Arwr, Hedd Wyn 2013-02-24 2013-04-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20130430045112/http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=3790 live August 15 – Martha Capps Oliver, American poet and hymnwriter (born 1845)Martha W. Capps 27 August 1845 – 15 August 1917 • K637-F1B https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K637-F1B ident.familysearch.org 17 July 2022 19 July 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230719171131/https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K637-F1B live September 28 – T. E. Hulme, English critic (killed in action, born 1883) October 16 – Walter Flex, German author (died of wounds, born 1887) November 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (born 1858) November 16 – Georges de Peyrebrune, French novelist (born 1841)Nelly Sanchez, Georges de Peyrebrune : De la Société des gens de lettres au jury du prix Vie Heureuse, Classiques Garnier, "Correspondances et Mémoires", 2016, 177 pages November 18 – Adrien Bertrand, French novelist (died of wounds, born 1888)Cross Tim The Lost Voices of World War I Bloomsbury Publishing London 1988 0-7475-4276-7 December 27 – George Diamandy, Romanian journalist, dramatist, and political figure (angina, born 1867) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan See also World War I in literature References 30em External links Popular Books of 1917 at Goodreads Published 1917 Books at Goodreads 1917 Books at Goodreads