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August – The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium.
August 1914 (Russian: Август четырнадцатого) is a Russian novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia.
August The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. Stanley Unwin purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen.
Ernst Lissauer, who coined the slogan. In August 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, German poet Ernst Lissauer published the anti-British poem Hassgesang gegen England ("Song of hate against England"), which in the words of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig "fell like a shell into a munitions depot".
The poem "August, 1914" by John Masefield was published in the September 1 issue of The English Review, the first piece of literature written about World War I. [ 21 ] The town of Mission Beach, Queensland , Australia was established.
Pages in category "1914 poems" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * 1914 in poetry; A.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 [1]) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".
Turkish Balloon, an inner spread from Zang Tumb Tuuum, 1914. This copy is in MOMA's collection. The book is a 228-page softback which includes foldout pages as part of the poem. The poem opens with Corrections of Proofs & Desires ; 'No poetry before us with our wireless imagination and words in freedom LOOOng live