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
Read more about this topic: 1919 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)