Editing 1917 in literature (section)

==Events==
[[File:Siegfried Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot 1917.jpeg|thumb|Portrait of [[Siegfried Sassoon]] by [[Glyn Warren Philpot]], 1917]]
*January
**[[Francis Picabia]] produces the first issue of the [[Dada]] periodical ''[[391 (magazine)|391]]'' in [[Barcelona]].
**Philosopher [[Hu Shih]], the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine ''[[New Youth (Xin Qingnian)]]'', "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight guidelines for writers.
**[[J. R. R. Tolkien]], on medical leave from the [[British Army]] at [[Great Haywood]], begins ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]'' (the first version of ''[[The Silmarillion]]''), starting with the "[[Fall of Gondolin]]". This first chronicles Tolkien's [[Mythopoeia|mythopoeic]] [[Middle-earth]] [[Tolkien's legendarium|''legendarium'']] in prose.<ref>{{Cite web |title=J. R. R. Tolkien Chronology |url=http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/tolkienchronology.htm |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archive-date=2014-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713055641/http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/tolkienchronology.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Colin |last=Duriez |authorlink=Colin Duriez |title=J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend |location=Oxford |publisher=Lion |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7459-5514-8 |pages=102–6}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] or [[February 5|5]] – The English writer [[Hugh Kingsmill]] is captured in action in France.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Hugh Kingsmill on the Western Front |first=A. D. |last=Harvey |journal=[[Notes and Queries]] |volume=59 |year=2012 |issue=3 |doi=10.1093/notesj/gjs087 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=413–416 }}</ref>
*[[February 16]] – The publisher [[Boni & Liveright]] is founded in [[New York City]] by [[Horace Liveright]] with Albert Boni, and initiates the "[[Modern Library]]" imprint.
*April – [[Leonard Woolf|Leonard]] and [[Virginia Woolf]] take delivery of a hand printing press needed to establish the [[Hogarth Press]] at their home in [[Richmond upon Thames]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Hogarth_Press |first=Jessica |last=Svendsen |title=Hogarth Press |publisher=The Modernism Lab at Yale University |year=2010 |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215010724/http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Hogarth_Press |archive-date=2009-12-15 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Their first publication is ''Two Stories''.
*May – [[W. B. Yeats]] acquires [[Thoor Ballylee]] in Ireland.
*[[June 4]] – The first [[Pulitzer Prize]]s are awarded: [[Laura E. Richards]], [[Maude H. Elliott]], and [[Florence Hall (Pulitzer Prize winner)|Florence Hall]] receive the first for biography (for ''[[Julia Ward Howe]]''), [[Jean Jules Jusserand]] the first for history with ''[[With Americans of Past and Present Days]]'', and [[Herbert B. Swope]] the first for [[journalism]] for his work for the ''[[New York World]]''.
*[[June 18]] – [[Luigi Pirandello]]'s drama ''[[Right You Are (if you think so)]]'' (''Così è (se vi pare)'') is first performed, in [[Milan]].
*July – [[Siegfried Sassoon]] issues a "Soldier's Declaration" against prolonging [[World War I]]. He is sent by the military (with assistance from [[Robert Graves]]) to [[Edinburgh]]'s [[Craiglockhart Hydropathic|Craiglockhart War Hospital]], where [[Wilfred Owen]] introduces himself on August 18.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Siegfried |last=Sassoon |title=Siegfried's Journey |year=1946 |page=58}}</ref> At Sassoon's urging, Owen writes his two great war poems, "[[Anthem for Doomed Youth]]" and "[[Dulce et Decorum est]]", although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. Their meeting would later inspire [[Stephen MacDonald]]'s drama ''[[Not About Heroes]]'' ([[1982 in literature|1982]]) and [[Pat Barker]]'s novel ''[[Regeneration (novel)|Regeneration]]'' ([[1991 in literature|1991]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=Merritt Moseley|title=The Fiction of Pat Barker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lgdBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|date=28 May 2014|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-137-43204-9|pages=65}}</ref>
*Summer – The [[Siuru]] [[Expressionism|expressionist]] and [[neo-romantic]] literary movement in [[Estonia]] is formed by young poets and writers.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Bédé, Jean Albert |author2=Edgerton, William Benbow |title=Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1980 |isbn=0-231-03717-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/columbiadictiona0000unse/page/237 237] |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiadictiona0000unse/page/237 }}</ref><ref name=BL>{{Cite book |author=Rubulis, Aleksis |title=Baltic Literature |url=https://archive.org/details/balticliterature00rubu |url-access=registration |location=South Bend, Indiana |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |year=1970}}</ref>
*[[September 6]] – At the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] in [[Birkenhead]], the [[Chairing of the Bard]] ceremony ends with the chair draped in black, the winner, [[Hedd Wyn]], having died a month earlier in battle.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/aug04e.shtml |publisher=Archives Hub |title=National Eisteddfod of Wales |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archive-date=2014-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801075838/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/aug04e.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*October
**[[Ernest Hemingway]] takes his first job, as a reporter on ''[[The Kansas City Star]]''.
**[[D. H. Lawrence]] is forced to leave [[Cornwall]] at three days' notice under terms of the [[Defence of the Realm Act]] in the United Kingdom.<ref>Partly reflected in his novel ''[[Kangaroo (novel)|Kangaroo]]'' (1923).</ref>
*[[October 20]] – The 51-year-old poet [[W. B. Yeats]] marries 25-year-old [[Georgie Hyde-Lees]] at [[Harrow Road]] [[register office]] in London, with [[Ezra Pound]] as best man, a couple of months after Yeats' proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress's daughter, [[Iseult Gonne]], is rejected.
*[[December 25]] – [[Jesse Lynch Williams]]' ''[[Why Marry?]]'', the first drama to win a [[Pulitzer Prize]], opens at the [[Astor Theatre (New York)]].
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**The colonial government of the [[Dutch East Indies]] establishes the ''Kantoor voor de Volklectuur'' ("Office for People's Reading"), later renamed [[Balai Pustaka]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siregar |first=Bakri |authorlink=Bakri Siregar |year=1964 |language=Indonesian |title=Sedjarah Sastera Indonesia |trans-title=History of Indonesian Literature |volume=1 |publisher=Akademi Sastera dan Bahasa "Multatuli" |location=Jakarta |oclc=63841626 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXjiAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
**The [[Marc Chagall]] illustrated version of ''The Magician'' (דער קונצענמאכער, ''Der Kuntsenmakher'') by [[I. L. Peretz]] (died 1915) appears in [[Vilnius]].<ref name="WDL">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ |title=The Magician |website=[[World Digital Library]] |year=1917 |accessdate=2013-09-30 |archive-date=2013-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003004642/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ |url-status=live }}</ref>