—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
April 2 — Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family.
October — W. B. Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920.
December — The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct.
Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
The journal Littérature founded in France by André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) writes Notes on Thought and Vision, a prose work, published posthumously in 1982.
Edwin James Brady, The House of the Winds
John Le Gay Brereton, The Burning Marl, dedicated to "All who have fought nobly"
C. J. Dennis, Jim of the Hills
Shaw Neilson, Heart of Spring, Sydney, Bookfellow
Charles G.D. Roberts, New Poems. (London: Constable).
Swami Ananda Acharya, Snow-birds, London: Macmillan, Indian poetry in English
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, The Coloured Garden, Adyar, Madras: The Commonwealth Office; India, Indian poetry in English
Ardeshir M. Modi, Spring Blossoms, London: Arthur H. Stockwell
Nanikram Vasanmal Thadani, Krishna's Flute and Other Poems, Bombay: Longmans
Richard Aldington
Images of Desire
Images of War
Swami Ananda Acharya, Snow-birds, London: Macmillan, Indian poetry in English
May Wedderburn Cannan, The Splendid Days
Eva Dobell, A Bunch of Cotswold Grasses
Ernest Dowson (died 1900), The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, with a memoir by Arthur Symons
John Drinkwater, Loyalties
T. S. Eliot, Ara Vos Prec, including "Gerontion" and the poems later published in Poems – 1920; his "Tradition and the Individual Talent" appears in The Egoist
Ivor Gurney, War's Embers
F. W. Harvey, Ducks
Rudyard Kipling, The Years Between
C. S.