1921 | Literature
Literature
Nonfiction: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig (Josef Johann) Wittgenstein, 31, of Cambridge University. A brother of the pianist, Wittgenstein wrote the work while on active service with the Austrian Army in 1918; The Star of Redemption (Der Stern der Erlösung) by German Existentialist Franz Rosenzweig, 34, who began the work while on active service with the German Army in 1918; Socialism and Co-operation by Leonard S. Woolf; The Founding of New England by Brooklyn, N.Y.-born historian James Truslow Adams, 42; London River by H. M. Tomlinson.
Naturalist-author John Burroughs dies March 25 at age 83 while en route from California to his native New York State; economist-author Henry Carter Adams dies at Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 11 at age 69; philosopher Eugen Dühring at Nowawes, Germany, September 21 at age 88; Marxist author Henry M. Hyndman at his native London November 22 at age 79.
Fiction: Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes) by Marcel Proust; The Knife Between the Teeth (Le Couteau Entre les Dents) by Henri Barbusse; Anicet; or The Panorama by French poet-novelist Louis Aragon (originally Andrieux), 23; Chrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley; Héloïse and Abelard by George Moore; Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare; To Let by John Galsworthy; Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini; Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington; Three Soldiers by Chicago-born novelist John (Roderigo) Dos Passos, 25, who served as a volunteer ambulance driver in the Great War; The Mistress of Husaby (Husfrue) by Sigrid Undset; Tales and Legends by German poet-playwright Nelly Leonie Sachs, 30; Husband and Wife (Mann und Frau) by Helene Voigt-Diederichs; The Triumph of the Egg (stories) by Sherwood Anderson; Balisand by Joseph Hergesheimer; A Parody Outline of History by Ohio-born humorist Donald Ogden Stewart, 26, wins its author instant success and entrée to New York's Algonquin Round Table; Mavis of Green Hill by New Rochelle, N.Y.-born novelist Faith Baldwin, 28, whose books will be serialized in magazines for women and be second in popularity only to those of Kathleen Norris (see 1911); Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton Porter; The Young Enchanted by Hugh Walpole; Rich Relatives by Compton Mackenzie; The Mysterious Affair at Styles by English mystery writer Agatha (Mary Clarissa Miller) Christie, 30, introduces the London detective Hercule Poirot, late of the Belgian Sûreté.
Poetry: "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world;/ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned,/ The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity"; Devoirs de vacances by Raymond Radiguet; Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay; Hymen by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle); At the Very Edge of the Sea (U Samogo Morya) and Anno Domini MCMXXI by Anna Akhmatova, who has defied her father's objections to her career; Mile II (Versty II) by Marina Tsvetaeva; Nets to Catch the Wind by New Jersey-born poet-novelist Elinor Wylie (née Hoyt), 36; Poems by Marianne Moore; The Farmer's Bride (The Saturday Market) by English poet Charlotte Mary Mew, 51.
Poet Austin Dobson dies at London September 2 at age 81.
Juvenile: The Story of Mankind by Dutch-born U.S. historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 39; Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery, who married a clergyman 10 years ago, moved to his manse in Ontario, and deals in her latest book with the impact of the Great War on a little island community.
The P.E.N. Club is founded at London by John Galsworthy, who has assembled some leading colleagues. The Pen American Center will be established next year in the United States, and PEN will become a worldwide writers' lobby lending support for freedom of expression and the spread of literacy but whose internal dissensions will sometimes make headlines.