And then by one of the wonderful serendipitous chances that seems to come my way quite often I discovered the attached articel about the letter that Ezra Pound wrote to James Joyce in December 1913:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/15/the-letter-that-changed-the-course-of-modern-fiction.html#url=/articles/2013/12/15/the-letter-that-changed-the-course-of-modern-fiction.html
The letter changed the course of literature by launching the literary career of James Joyce and setting him on course to spend the First World War writing Ulysses.
Of course the other major artistic revolution that took place earlier in 1913 was the first performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, one of the greatest pieces of twentith century music:
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