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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1915. ==Events== *January 13 - "Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy", the first known story by Captain H. C. McNeile, Royal Engineers, writing as "Sapper", begins publication in the ''Daily Mail'' (London).〔p. 4. 〕 *February 28 - Rupert Brooke sails with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; during the campaign he develops sepsis from an infected mosquito bite, which ends with his death in a hospital ship off Skyros.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Royal Naval Division service record (extract) )〕 His collection ''1914 & Other Poems'', including the sonnet "The Soldier", is published posthumously in May. *March - Ford Madox Ford's novel ''The Good Soldier: A tale of passion'' is published by John Lane – The Bodley Head in London under this title, and under the author's original name of Ford Madox Hueffer, although he had intended it to be called ''The Saddest Story''. *April 6 - Publication in London of the American Ezra Pound's poetry collection ''Cathay'', "translations... for the most part of the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga", by Elkin Mathews. *April 24 - Deportation of Armenian notables from Istanbul begins. Among literary deportees killed as part of the Armenian Genocide are Dikran Chökürian, Armen Dorian, Melkon Giurdjian, Ardashes Harutiunian, Jacques Sayabalian, Ruben Sevak, Siamanto, Rupen Zartarian and actor Yenovk Shahen; survivors include Yervant Odian and Alexander Panossian. *May 3 - The rondeau "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae; it is first published on December 8 in the London magazine ''Punch''. *May 7 - Sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'': Americans among the 1,198 killed in this torpedo attack on a civilian passenger liner include: writer and playwright Justus Miles Forman (b. 1875); theatrical producer Charles Frohman (b. 1856); writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard (b. 1856) and his second wife Alice Moore Hubbard (b. 1861); and playwright Charles Klein (b. 1867). Survivors include British-born writer and educator Ian Holbourn and bookseller Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. *May 13 - While Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands a few yards away, and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in ''The Times'' the day after his death. His younger brother Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell is killed in action 2 months later. *c. May - Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's ''Spring Morning'' (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat. *June 24 - Dedication of Widener Library at Harvard University. *June 26–August 14 - P. G. Wodehouse's novel ''Something Fresh'' is serialized in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (U.S.) introducing the character Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle; it is first published as a book on September 3 in New York by D. Appleton & Company and on September 16 in London by Methuen & Company. *August–September - John Buchan's thriller ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'', set immediately before the outbreak of war and introducing his hero Richard Hannay, is serialised in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' before being published in book form in October by William Blackwood and Sons in Edinburgh. *August–December - Ezra Pound is completing the first sections of his poem ''The Cantos''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://themargins.net/bib/B/BK/00bkintro.html#firstcantorefs )〕 *September 15 - P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Extricating Young Gussie" is published in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (U.S.) introducing the characters Jeeves and Bertie. *September 30 - D. H. Lawrence's novel ''The Rainbow'' is published in London, immediately prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act 1857 and suppressed by his publisher, Methuen. The U.S. edition is published in November without legal challenge. *October - Franz Kafka's seminal novella ''The Metamorphosis'' (''Die Verwandlung'') is first published in ''Die Weißen Blätter'' (Leipzig).〔Jg. 2 pp. 1177–1230.〕 Kafka finishes writing ''The Trial'' (''Der Process'') this year, but it will not be published until 1925, the year after his death. *October 15 - ''Detective Story Magazine'' is first published by Street & Smith of New York, a successor to ''Nick Carter Stories''. *November - German author Heinrich Mann publishes an essay on Émile Zola (in ''Die Weißen Blätter'') celebrating Zola's political commitment and attacking the economic causes of the War, temporarily rupturing Mann's relationship with his younger brother, the novelist Thomas Mann. *James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin all take up residence in Zürich.〔A coincidence exploited in Tom Stoppard's 1974 play ''Travesties''.〕 *Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., establishes the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house in New York City. *The Goudy Old Style serif typeface is created by Frederic Goudy for American Type Founders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1915 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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