— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year
— Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year
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Events
January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March issue also contains Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that this London-based movement has its first readership in the United States. January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912). American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet here. June – The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication, but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owns it; Rebecca West edits it at first, then Ezra Pound takes over as editor; it succeeds The Freewoman and will be succeeded by The Egoist. June 2 – English Poet Laureate Alfred Austin dies, succeeded by Robert Bridges on July 17. September – Founding of The Glebe, an American literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues. Ezra Pound, having heard about the magazine from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos, sends Kreymborg the manuscript of Des Imagistes in the summer and this famous first anthology of Imagism is published as the fifth issue of The Glebe (February 1914). September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out. November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel prize in literature. December 15 – Ezra Pound (in London) writes to James Joyce (in Trieste) requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist. Pound arrived in London by September to meet W. B. Yeats, whom he considers "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from this November until 1916, the two men winter in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet. Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name "Generation of '98" this year, referring to the novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War (1898) and alluding to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat in that war. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.
Wallace Stevens and his wife, Elsie, rent a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph Weinman, who makes a bust of Elsie, whose image is used on the artist's 1916–1945 Mercury dime design. Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring his work to literary prominence.
Works published in English
Canada
Tom MacInnes, The Rhymes of a Rounder
Marjorie Pickthall, The Drift of Pinions
Varna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems
Albert D. Watson, Love and the Universe, the Immortals and Other Poems
United Kingdom
Laurence Binyon, Auguries
Joseph Campbell, Irishry
W. H. Davies, Foliage
Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes
John Drinkwater, Cromwell, and Other Poems
Radclyffe Hall, Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence, Love Poems and Others
Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems, English poet living at this time in the United States Winifred Mary Letts, Songs from Leinster, English-born poet resident in Ireland John Masefield, Dauber Alfred Noyes, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern George William Russell ("Æ"), Collected Poems (expanded editions published in 1919, 1926 and 1935) Siegfried Sassoon, The Daffodil Murderer Dora Sigerson, Madge Linsey, and Other Poems J. C. Squire, The Three Hills, and Other Poems Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in English Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom