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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1918. ==Events== *January 1 - Popular British novelist and wartime propagandist Hall Caine is made a KBE. *January 2 - Popular British novelist Marie Corelli is convicted under wartime legislation for hoarding food. *January 23 - Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in ''The Nation''). * March * *The Telemachus episode of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' is published (in serialised form) in the American journal ''The Little Review''. * *English novelist Alec Waugh is made a prisoner of war; he will be incarcerated in Mainz Citadel with monologuist J. Milton Hayes (also taken prisoner this year) and Hugh Kingsmill. * April * * Hu Shih, chief advocate of the use of the vernacular in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in the magazine ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)'' proposing a four-point reform program. * * English writer 'May Sinclair' first uses the term "Stream of consciousness" to describe a narrative mode, in a discussion of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence ''Pilgrimage'' in ''The Egoist''. * June - English poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector. *August 17 - Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meet for the last time, in London, and spend what Sassoon later describes as "the whole of a hot cloudless afternoon together." *October 3 - Siegfried Sassoon visits his mentor Robbie Ross for the last time. Sassoon later writes that Ross, in saying goodbye, gave him a "presentiment of final farewell."〔 *November 4 - Wilfred Owen is killed in action, aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Shrewsbury a week later on Armistice Day. * December - The ''Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins'' (d. 1889; including ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'', 1875/6) are published by Robert Bridges; few were published in Hopkins's lifetime, so this presents his innovative sprung rhythm and imagery to many readers for the first time. *December 28 - Emperor Khải Định of Vietnam declares the traditional Chữ nôm script for writing the Vietnamese language to be abolished in favour of the Latin script Vietnamese alphabet. * Winter - Parisian farceur Georges Feydeau contracts tertiary syphilis. * The 2nd annual Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in the United States, including the first award for a novel. 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「1918 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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