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Events relating to literature
The Times Literary Supplement is published in London as an independent paper, separate from The Times
The American writer Amy Lowell publishes an Imagist collection of poems, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry
Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published posthumously in an abbreviated version
Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage
Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches
Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film
US novelist Ernest Poole publishes The Harbor, set on the Brooklyn waterfront
Franz Kafka publishes Metamorphosis, the tale of a travelling salesman who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect
The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out
D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, The Rainbow, is seized by the police as an obscene work
The Russian poet and dramatist Vladimir Mayakovsky publishes his first major long poem, A Cloud in Trousers
Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology
Secret agent Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece
'Earth's the right place for love' in Robert Frost's 'Birches', included in his collection Mountain Interval
Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier
The Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) publishes her first collection, Sea Garden
The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France
Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet
Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain
The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography
Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father
Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque
Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians
