| Year |
Barfield's Life |
World/Cultural Events |
| 1919 |
[21]
—Enters Wadham
College, Oxford
—First meets C. S.
Lewis at college tea
|
Theodore Roosevelt, Pierre
Auguste Renoir die, first League of Nations meeting in Paris, Anderson’s
Winesburg,
Ohio, Hesse’s
Demian,
Mencken’s
The American Language published,
Edgar
Varése conducts New York Symphony’s first concert of modern music,
observations of total eclipse of the sun bear out Einstein’s theory of
relativity, RCA founded, "Black Sox" baseball bribery scandal
|
| 1920 |
[22]
—Receives First Class
Honors in English language and literature
—Works as part-time,
assistant editor for Truth, a London
weekly
—Ballads, Form in Poetry, John Clare, Oxford Poetry, The Reader's Eye,
"Walter de la Mare" (essays and reviews)
|
US Senate votes
against joining League of Nations, Warren G. Harding elected President,
Knut Hamsun wins Nobel Prize for Lit., William Dean Howells, Modigliani
die, O’Neill wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Emperor Jones, Samuel
Alexander’s Space, Time, and Deity, Jung’s Psychological Types,
Valery’s
Le
Cimetiére marin published, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
released,
Wharton’s
The Age of Innocence wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction,
first
performance of Holst’s The Planets.
|
| 1921 |
[23]
—Boswell, The Fourteenth Century, George Santayana, The Scottish
Chaucerians, The Silent Voice of Poetry, Some Elements of Decadence, Wilfred
Owen (essays and reviews)
|
Anatole France
wins Nobel Prize for Lit., Lawrence publishes Women in Love, Pirandello’s
Six
Characters in Search of an Author produced, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Logicus Philosophicus published, chromosome theory of heredity first
proposed, BBC founded, Saccho and Vanzetti found guilty of murder, William
Howard Taft becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Saint-Saëns
dies
Wittgenstein |
Prandello |
France |
|
| 1922 |
[24]
—John Drinkwater, Old
English Poetry, 'Ruin' (essays and reviews)
—Seven Letters
fiction)
—Nine poems published in a variety of journals
|
T. S. Eliot’s
The
Waste Land, Joyce’s
Ulysses,
Rilke’s
Duino Elegies
and
Sonnets
to Orpheus published,
Marc Chagall leaves Russia for Paris,
Flaherty completes
Nanook of the North,
Proust dies
|
| 1923 |
[25]
—First exposure to
Anthroposophy
—Moves to Long
Crenden, near Oxford
—Marries Maudie Douie
in April
—Awake at Night, Day
[poetry]
—Dope [fiction]
—Chronicle: Drama, Idiom, Milton and Metaphysics (essays and reviews)
|
Teapot Dome Scandal,
Hitler’s "Beer Hall Putsch" fails, William Butler Yeats wins Nobel Prize
for Lit., Robert Frost’s
New Hampshire, e. e. cummings’ The Enormous
Room, Le Corbusier’s
Toward a New Architecture, Martin Buber’s
I
and Thou published,
Gershwin’s
Rhapsody in Blue performed,
process for sound motion pictures developed, Messerschmitt aircraft factory
opens, Pres. Harding dies, succeeded by Calvin Coolidge, Katherine Mansfield
dies
|
| 1924 |
[26]
—Changes in the
Theatre, Letters to the Editor
—The Devastated Area (fiction)
|
Lenin, Frank Kafka,
Woodrow Wilson, Louis Sullivan, Joseph Conrad die, Shaw’s Back to Methusaleh,
Forster’s
A
Passage to India, Freud’s Collected Writings
published, Gandhi
conducts 21 day fast, Calvin Coolidge elected President, René
Clair’s film Entracte and Léger’s
Ballet Méchanique
released,
J. Edgar Hoover becomes Director of the F.B.I., first use of insecticides,
25
million radios in use in US
|
| 1925 |
[27]
—Great War with C. S. Lewis begins
—Letters to the
Editor
—The Silver Trumpet (novel)
|
Sun Yat-sen, William
Jennings Bryan, Amy Lowell, Rudolf Steiner, Erik Satie die, Dreiser’s
An
American Tragedy,
Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby, Hemingway’s
In
Our Time published, Eisenstein’s
Battleship Potemkin released,
solar eclipse in New York, Scopes "Monkey" trial
Steiner |
Scopes |
Fitzgerald |
|
| 1926 |
[28]
—History in English Words (book)
—Letters to the
Editor, Romanticism and Anthroposophy, Metaphor (essays and reviews)
—Three Songs: Words and Music, In the Garden, Bliss (poetry)
|
Queen Elizabeth
II born, Hirohito becomes Japanese Emperor, Eugene V. Debs, Rainer Maria
Rilke, Claude Monet, Luther Burbank, Harry Houdini die, Hemingway’s The
Sun Also Rises, Kafka’s
The Castle, Milne’s Winnie the Pooh
published,
Lang’s Metropolis
released, first liquid fuel rocket, first 16
mm movie camera made by Kodak
|
| 1927 |
[29]
—Ophelia, On Reading
an Elizabethan Lyric in the British Museum Reading Room, Ritual [poems]
—Speech, Reason and the Consciousness Soul, Suggestions for a Film Scenario to be entitled Romance
or The Professor's Love-Story, Thinking
and Thought (essays and reviews)
|
Bergson wins Nobel
Prize for Lit., Hesse’s
Steppenwolf,
Traven’s
The Treasure of
the Sierra Madre, Freud’s
The Future of an Illusion
published,
The Jazz Singer in movie theatres, Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
published, Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic, Babe Ruth hits 60 home
runs
|
| 1928 |
[30]
—The Consciousness Soul,
Part I and II, Rudolf Steiner, Poetry, Verse and Prose (essays and reviews)
—Mrs. Cadogan (fiction)
—Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning [book]
|
Chang Kai-Shek
becomes President of China, Thomas Hardy dies, Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s
Lover published, first Mickey Mouse films, Gershwin’s An American
in Paris, Ravel’s
Bolero
performed, Toscanini becomes conductor
of New York Philharmonic, penicillin discovered, first scheduled TV broadcast,
Amelia Earhart flies the Atlantic, Herbert Hoover elected President
|
