Events
- October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy. He stays there briefly, moving on to Sicily (he will return to settle in Rapallo in January 1925).
- McGill Daily Literary Supplement started at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (ceased publication in 1925 in poetry; followed by the McGill Fortnightly Review, 1925–1927) by A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leon Edel, and later joined by A. M. Klein and Leo Kennedy. The periodical, which published poems and articles on contemporary trends, was the first in Canada to offer consistent commentary on modernist principles in poetry and literature.
- Daniel Corkery publishes the study of 18th century Irish poetry, The Hidden Ireland.
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