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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1915 was the year that the Ottoman Turks massacred more than one million Armenians; poison gas was introduced by the Germans at the Second Battle of Ypres; and filmmaker D. W. Griffith premiered the controversial "Birth of a Nation."


Significant Book of 1915:
T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

BOOK T. S. Eliot was the dominant English-language poet of the century, and his critical fame began with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." This volume features "Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and a selection of critical essays.

  Significant Music of 1915:
 Sergei Rachmaninov's Vespers

BOOK Sergei Rachmaninov completed his VESPERS, a sonorous blend of Orthodox-style chant and lush harmonies that is one of the glories of Russian choral music.




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