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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1917. ==Events== *January * *Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical ''391'' in Barcelona. * *Chinese philosopher Hu Shih publishes "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform" in the magazine ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)''. * *J. R. R. Tolkien, on medical leave from the British Army at Great Haywood, begins writing ''The Book of Lost Tales'' (the first version of ''The Silmarillion''), starting with the "Fall of Gondolin"; thus Tolkien's mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium is first chronicled in prose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/tolkienchronology.htm )〕 *February 4/5 - English writer Hugh Kingsmill is taken prisoner while fighting in France. *February 16 - The publishing house of Boni & Liveright is established in New York City by Horace Liveright with Albert Boni, and establishes the "Modern Library" imprint. *April - Leonard and Virginia Woolf take delivery of the printing presses they require in order to establish the Hogarth Press at their home in Richmond upon Thames. Their first publication is ''Two Stories''. *June 4 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for ''Julia Ward Howe''); Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days''; and Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the ''New York World''. *June 18 - Luigi Pirandello's drama ''Right You Are (if you think so)'' (''Così è (se vi pare)'') is premièred in Milan. *July - Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" against prolongation of World War I and is sent (with assistance from Robert Graves) by the military authorities to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where, on August 18, Wilfred Owen introduces himself. With Sassoon's encouragement, Owen writes his two great war poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est" at this time, although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. *c. Summer - The Siuru expressionistic and neo-romantic literary movement in Estonia is formed by a group of young poets and writers. *September 6 - At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Birkenhead, the Chairing of the Bard ceremony ends dramatically with the chair being draped in black, signifying that the winner, Hedd Wyn, had died a month earlier in battle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Archives Hub )〕 *October 20 - 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London (with Ezra Pound as best man) a couple of months after having had a proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress's daughter, Iseult Gonne, rejected. *December 25 - Jesse Lynch Williams' ''Why Marry?'', the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre (New York). *The colonial government of the Dutch East Indies establishes the ''Kantoor voor de Volklectuur'' ("Office for People's Reading"), later renamed Balai Pustaka. *The Marc Chagall illustrated version of ''The Magician'' (דער קונצענמאכער, ''Der Kuntsenmakher'') by I. L. Peretz (d. 1915) is published in Vilnius. 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「1917 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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