Events
- Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
- Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family.
- The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct
- October—William Butler Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920.
- The journal Litterature founded in France by André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) wrote Notes on Thought and Vision, a prose work; published posthumously in 1982
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