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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1914. ==Events== *January 18 – A party held in honour of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Thomas Sturge Moore, Victor Plarr, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint and Frederic Manning; peacock is on the menu. *February–December – Publication of ''New Numbers'', a quarterly collection of work by the Dymock poets in England edited by Lascelles Abercrombie. *February 2 – James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' commences serialization in ''The Egoist'', a new London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden. *February 4 – A staging of George A. Birmingham's comedy ''General John Regan'' at Westport Town Hall in Ireland provokes a riot. *February 10 – Thomas Hardy marries his second wife, children's author Florence Dugdale, at St Andrew's, Enfield.〔(Thomas Hardy website ). Accessed 3 March 2013]〕 *March * *''The Times Literary Supplement'' is published separately for the first time (in London). * *''The Little Review'' is founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance. *March 4 – Irish-born novelist George Moore publishes ''Vale'', the final of his 3-volume autobiographical ''Hail and Farewell'' (first in 1911). *April 11 – First English-language performance of George Bernard Shaw's comedy ''Pygmalion'' at His Majesty's Theatre in London starring Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Herbert Beerbohm Tree, famous for the Act III line "Not bloody likely!". *June – James Joyce's ''Dubliners'', a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, is published in London. *June 20 – First issue (of two) of the Vorticist literary magazine ''BLAST'' edited by Wyndham Lewis is published.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vorticism )〕 It includes Ford Madox Hueffer's "The Saddest Story", a preliminary version of ''The Good Soldier''. *June 24 – Edward Thomas makes the English railway journey which inspires his poem "Adlestrop" ''en route'' to meet Robert Frost; Thomas begins writing poetry for the first time after this summer. *July * *E. M. Forster completes his novel ''Maurice'', with its theme of male homosexual love; it is not published until 1971. * *Heinrich Mann completes his novel ''Der Untertan'', with its critique of German nationalism; it is not published until 1918. *August * *The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of ''The English Review''), the last he will produce before the peace. * *Stanley Unwin purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen. * *At about this date Loughborough (England) publishers Wills & Hepworth publish their first illustrated children's books in the Ladybird series, ''Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales'' by E() Talbot and ''Tiny Tots Travels'' by M. Burridge. *August 25 – The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is set on fire by German troops during the Rape of Belgium.〔; 〕 *September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium. Eärendil will much later appear in the ''The Silmarillion''. At this time Tolkien is an Oxford undergraduate staying at Phoenix Farm, Gedling near Nottingham. *September 2 – Charles Masterman invites 25 "eminent literary men" to Wellington House in London to form a secret British War Propaganda Bureau. Those who attend include William Archer, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ford Madox Hueffer, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Henry Newbolt, Gilbert Parker, G. M. Trevelyan and H. G. Wells. Kipling soon afterwards writes the poem "For all we have and are". W. B. Yeats, however, refuses to sign a letter of support for the War signed by most of the participants and published in ''The Times'' on September 18. *September 9 – Hilaire Belloc is contracted to write regular articles on the War in the new British weekly ''Land and Water''. *September 21 – Laurence Binyon's poem ''For the Fallen'', containing his Ode of Remembrance, is published in ''The Times'' (London). *September 22 * *French novelist Alain-Fournier (Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier), aged 27, is killed in action near Vaux-lès-Palameix (Meuse) a month after enlisting, leaving his second novel, ''Colombe Blanchet'', unfinished; his body will not be identified until 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mémoire des hommes )〕 * *T. S. Eliot (at this time in England to study) meets fellow American poet Ezra Pound for the first time, in London. *September 29 – Arthur Machen's short story ''The Bowmen'', origin of the legend of the Angels of Mons, is published in ''The Evening News'' (London). *October 2 – The date predicted by Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), as the date for the "full end" of Babylon, or nominal Christianity, with statements such as: "True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved .... In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished at the end of A. D. 1914...."〔''Studies In the Scriptures Series II – The Time Is At Hand'' (1889 ed.) pp. 99, 101.〕 *November 7 – The first issue of ''The New Republic'' magazine is published in the United States. *November 16 – M. P. Shiel is convicted and imprisoned for "indecently assaulting and carnally knowing" his 12-year-old ''de facto'' stepdaughter on October 26 in London. *December – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", enlists in the French Army to fight in World War I and becomes a French citizen after an August attempt at enlistment is rejected. *December 31 – T. S. Eliot writes to Conrad Aiken from Oxford (where he has a scholarship at Merton College), saying: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."〔Seymour-Jones, Carole. (''Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot'', Knopf Publishing Group, p. 1. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1914 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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