Chronology 4611916 Carl Sandburg: Chicago Poems. Amy Lowell: Men, Women,
and Ghosts. James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man. Robert Frost: Mountain Interval. H.D.: Sea Garden.
Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Man Against the Sky.
1917 T.S. Eliot: Prufrock and Other Observations. The United
States enters World War I. Ezra Pound: Lustra and Other
Poems. Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence and Other Poems.
William Carlos Williams: Al Que Quiere!
1918 Charles Reznikoff: Rhythms. Paul Klee: Gartenplan.
1919 Versailles Treaty is signed. Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg,
Ohio. T.S. Eliot: “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”
John Crowe Ransom: Poems About God.1920 Pr ohibition goes into effect. 19th Amendment allows
women to vote. Henri Matisse: L’Odalisque. Ezra Pound:
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. T.S. Eliot: The Sacred Wood.
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York. Charles Chaplin: The
Kid. Marianne Moore: Poems.
1922 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land. James Joyce: Ulysses. Eugene
O’Neill: The Hairy Ape.
1923 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium. William Carlos Williams:
Spring and All. Jean Toomer: Cane. E.E. Cummings: Tulips
and Chimneys. Robert Frost wins the first of his four
Pulitzer Prizes for New Hampshire. Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. Louise Bogan: Body of This Death.
Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker.
1924 H.D.: Heliodora and Other Poems. T.S. Eliot: Sweeney
Agonistes. Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin. Archibald
MacLeish: The Happy Marriage. Marianne Moore:
Observations. John Crowe Ransom: Chills and Fever.
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby. Harold Ross founds
The New Yorker. T.S. Eliot: The Hollow Men. E.E.
Cummings: XLI Poems. Alain Locke: The New Negro: An
Anthology. William Carlos Williams: In the American Grain.
Death of Elinor Hoyt Wylie.
1926 Hart Crane: White Buildings. Langston Hughes: The Weary
Blues. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises. E.E.
Cummings: Is 5. Marianne Moore becomes editor of The
Dial. Laura Riding Jackson: The Close Chaplet.