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Events relating to literature
The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems
Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell
Renascence is the title poem in college student Edna St Vincent Millay's first published collection
Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners
In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier
In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier
The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has its first performance – in a German version in Vienna
US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica
German author Thomas Mann publishes the novella Death in Venice
Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes
The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone
Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country begins publication in serial form
Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past
D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist
The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA
After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston
Margaret Anderson publishes in Chicago the first issue of The Little Review, a monthly literary magazine
