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Events relating to literature
D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo
Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith
Boris Pasternak makes his name with his third volume of poems, My Sister Life
Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections
Valéry's collection Charmes includes probably his best-known poem, 'Le Cimetière marin'
The Czech novelist Jaroslav Hasek dies with his masterpiece, The Good Soldier Schweik, incomplete
Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes his first collection of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires ('Fervour of Buenos Aires')
Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies
Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire
The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France
The US poet e.e. cummings publishes his first collection, Tulips and Chimneys
US poet Edna St Vincent Millay publishes The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
Sean O'Casey's first play The Shadow of a Gunman is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin
In I and Thou the Austrian theologian Martin Buber interprets religion in terms of the subjective experience of interpersonal relationships
The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York
Rainer Maria Rilke publishes his Duino Elegies and his Sonnets to Orpheus
Sean O'Casey's second play Juno and the Paycock is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin
US poet Robinson Jeffers publishes his first successful collection, Tamar and Other Poems
German author Thomas Mann publishes his novel The Magic Mountain
20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems
US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent
