1915 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1915.

Events[]

  • January – The Geração de Orpheu launch the short-lived magazine Orpheu, introducing literary modernism to Portugal.[1]
  • January 13 – "Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy", the first known story by Captain H. C. McNeile, Royal Engineers, writing as "Sapper", begins in the Daily Mail (London).[2]
  • February 28 – Rupert Brooke sails with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, but develops sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. This ends with his death in a hospital ship off Skyros.[3] His collection 1914 & Other Poems, including the sonnet "The Soldier", appears posthumously in May

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  • March 26 – Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, is published in London by the firm of her half-brother, Gerald Duckworth.
  • April 6 – The American Ezra Pound's poetry collection Cathay, "translations... for the most part of the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga", by Elkin Mathews, is published in London.[4]
  • April 24 – Deportation begins of Armenian notables from Istanbul. Among the literary deportees killed in the Armenian genocide are Dikran Chökürian, Armen Dorian, Melkon Giurdjian, Ardashes Harutiunian, Jacques Sayabalian, Ruben Sevak, Siamanto, Rupen Zartarian and actor Yenovk Shahen. Survivors include Yervant Odian and Alexander Panossian.
  • May 3 – The rondeau "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian poet John McCrae is written; it is first published on December 8 in the London magazine Punch.[5]
  • May 7 – The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania claims 1,198 victims. The Americans among them in this torpedo attack on a civilian passenger liner include the writer and playwright Justus Miles Forman (born 1875), the theatrical producer Charles Frohman (born 1856), the writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard (born 1856) and his second wife Alice Moore Hubbard (born 1861), and the playwright Charles Klein (born 1867). The survivors include the British-born writer and educator Ian Holbourn and the bookseller Charles E. Lauriat, Jr.
  • May 13 – As Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands some yards away and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times the following day.[6] His younger brother Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell is killed in action two months later.
  • c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning, from the Poetry Bookshop, London, has engravings by her cousin Gwen Raverat.[7]
  • June 24 – The Widener Library at Harvard University is dedicated.
  • June 26 – August 14 – P. G. Wodehouse's novel Something Fresh is serialized in The Saturday Evening Post (U.S.), introducing the character of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. It first appears in book form on September 3 in New York, from D. Appleton & Company, and on September 16 in London, from Methuen.[8]
  • August/September – John Buchan's thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, set just before the outbreak of war and introducing as hero Richard Hannay, is serialised in Blackwood's Magazine. Book publication follows in October by William Blackwood and Sons in Edinburgh.
  • August–December – Ezra Pound completes the early sections of his poem The Cantos.[9]
  • September 15
  • September 30 – Methuen, publishers of D. H. Lawrence's new novel The Rainbow, are prosecuted in London under the Obscene Publications Act 1857 and its sale is banned. The U.S. edition appears in November without any legal challenge.[11]
  • October – Franz Kafka's seminal novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is first published in Die Weißen Blätter (Leipzig).[12] Kafka finishes writing The Trial (Der Process) this year, but it will not be published until 1925, the year after his death.
  • October 15 – Detective Story Magazine is first published by Street & Smith of New York, a successor to Nick Carter Stories.
  • October 27 – Leonid Andreyev's play He Who Gets Slapped premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre[13]
  • November – The German author Heinrich Mann's essay on Émile Zola in Die Weißen Blätter marks Zola's political commitment and attacks the economic causes of the war. This temporarily disrupts Mann's relations with his younger brother, the novelist Thomas Mann.[14]
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    • James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin all take up residence in Zurich, in a coincidence to be exploited in Tom Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties.
    • Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. establishes the publishers Alfred A. Knopf in New York City.[15]
    • The Goudy Old Style serif typeface is created by Frederic Goudy for American Type Founders.[16]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1915 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • John Hay Beith – The First Hundred Thousand
  • John Buchan – Nelson's History of the War (begun)
  • Hall Caine – The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War
  • Maxim Gorky – In the World (В людях)
  • Rudyard Kipling – The Fringes of the Fleet (essays and poems)
  • Friedrich Naumann – Mitteleuropa
  • May Sinclair – A Journal of Impressions in Belgium
  • Percy Sykes – A History of Persia[20]
  • Zhonghua Da Zidian (中華大字典) (Great Chinese Dictionary)

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 3 – James Elroy Flecker, English poet, novelist and dramatist (tuberculosis, born 1884)[44]
  • February 4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, English popular novelist (born 1837)
  • April 8 – Louis Pergaud, French novelist (killed in action, born 1882)
  • April 19 – Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, American poet and novelist (born 1857)[45]
  • April 23 – Rupert Brooke, English war poet (blood poisoning, born 1887)
  • May 7 (passengers drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania)
    • Justus Miles Forman, American writer (b. 1875)[46]
    • Charles Frohman, American theater producer (b. 1856)[46]
    • Elbert Hubbard, American writer and philosopher (b. 1856)[47]
    • Alice Moore Hubbard, American wife of Elbert Hubbard (b. 1861)
    • Charles Klein, American playwright (b. 1867)[48]
  • May 11 – Lucy Bethia Walford, Scottish novelist and artist (born 1845)
  • May 26 – Julian Grenfell, English war poet (killed in action, born 1888)[49]
  • July 5 – Aurelio Tolentino, Filipino dramatist (born 1867)
  • August 19 – Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist (diabetes, born 1867).
  • September 1 – August Stramm, German Expressionist poet and playwright (killed in action, born 1874)
  • September 27 – Remy de Gourmont, French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic (stroke, born 1858)
  • October 17 – Edmond Laforest, Haitian French-language poet (suicide, born 1876)[50]
  • November 14 – Booker T. Washington, American writer and educator (born 1856)[51]
  • December 23 – Roland Leighton, English war poet (died of wounds, born 1895)[52]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

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See also[]

  • World War I in literature


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