1908 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1908. Events *February 15 – The weekly boys' story paper '' The Magnet'' is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter. *March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he publishes himself his first collection of poems, ''A Lume Spento'' (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish ''A Quinzaine for this Yule''. * June 18 – Mark Twain buys a house in Redding, Connecticut. *Summer – The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque '' Comus'', directed by Rupert Brooke. *July – ...
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