Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology

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

Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain

Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque

In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution

Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war

Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos

Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself

Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems

James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere

Marina Tsvetaeva completes an anti-Soviet cycle of poems, The Encampment of the Swans

Boris Pasternak makes his name with his third volume of poems, My Sister Life

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'

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 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

Rainer Maria Rilke publishes his Duino Elegies and his Sonnets to Orpheus

US poet Robinson Jeffers publishes his first successful collection, Tamar and Other Poems