— "Ode of Remembrance", an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", first published in The Times of London in September of this year.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January 1 – The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce
January 18 – A party held in honor of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Thomas Sturge Moore, Victor Plarr, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint and Frederic Manning; peacock is on the menu
January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxfordd
March 4 (dated February) – Publication of the first issue of New Numbers, a quarterly collection of work by the Dymock poets in England edited by Lascelles Abercrombie with Wilfrid Gibson; the only other issues are published on May 15 (dated April), about the beginning of October (dated August) and on February 27, 1915 (dated December 1914)
March – The Little Review founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance
April 3 – American poet Robert Frost moves to the rural English location of Dymock where he joins with the Dymock poets
April 20 – American poet Ezra Pound marries English artist Dorothy Shakespear at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London
June 5 – Rupert Brooke returns to England at Plymouth after a year's tour of North America and Tahiti and on June 23 joins with the Dymock poets and helps with New Numbers
June 24 – Edward Thomas makes the English railway journey which inspires his poem Adlestrop en route to meet Robert Frost, who encourages him to begin writing poetry
July 2 – BLAST, a short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, is founded with the publication of the first of its total of two editions, edited by Wyndham Lewis
August – The literature of World War I makes its first appearance.