Works Published in Other Languages
- Anna Akhmatova, The Rosary, her second collection, by this time there are thousands of women composing their poems "after Akhmatova"; the book becomes so popular in Russia that a "parlor game based upon the book was even invented. One person would recite a line of poetry and the next person would try to recite the next, until the entire book was recited."
- Krishnala M. Jhaveri, Milestones in Gujarati Literature written in English and translated into Gujarati; scholarship and criticism in (India)
- Stéphane Mallarmé's Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ("A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance"), originally published in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897, is posthumously published in book form for the first time, in a limited, 60-copy edition by the Imprimerie Sainte Catherine at Bruges, Belgium,
- Ernst Stadler, Der Aufbruch, this German poet's most important volume of verse, regarded as a key work of early Expressionism; he was killed in battle this year.
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