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Encyclopedia > 1916 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Years in literature: 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Decades in poetry: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries in poetry: 19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

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// The poem Into Battle is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle. ... See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1913 in literature, other events of 1914, 1915 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1915 in literature, other events of 1916, 1917 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... // First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Events

July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... A party is a social gathering intended primarily for celebration and recreation. ... Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings, founded Cabaret Voltaire on February 5, 1916 in Zürich as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. ... Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 - September 14, 1927) was a German author and poet. ... DaDa is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... DaDa is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... Emmy Hennings (February 17, 1885 – 1948) was the wife of celebrated Dadaist Hugo Ball. ... Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) is the assumed name of Sami Rosenstock, born in Moineşti, Bacău, Romania, a poet and essayist who lived for the majority of his life in France. ... Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 - June 7, 1966) was a sculptor, painter, and poet. ... Richard Huelsenbeck (April 23, 1892 - April 30, 1974) was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany. ... Sophie Täuber-Arp (19 January 1889 - 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, and sculptor. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...

Works published

H.D. in the mid 1910s
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H.D. in the mid 1910s

H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – September 27, 1961, Zürich), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... Robert Frost (1941) Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by Robert Frost. ... Antonio Machado y Ruiz (July 26, 1875 – February 22, 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of 98. ... D.H. Lawrence at age 21 (1906) David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, with his output spanning novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Carl Sandburg in 1955 Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. ... You may be looking for: Robert W. Service a poet. ... Charles Hamilton Sorley (May 19, 1895 - October 13, 1915) was a British poet of World War I. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908-1913). ... W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ... Easter 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. ...

Births

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... The cover of Gascoynes 1935 book A Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001) was a British poet associated with the Surrealist movement. ...

Deaths

April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890-1916) was a Portuguese novelist and poet. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... Gorch Fock was the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau (22 August 1880 - 31 May 1916). ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897 - 1916) was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Honorary statue of James Whitcomb Riley on courthouse lawn in Greenfield, Indiana James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916), American writer and poet called the Hoosier poet and Americas Childrens Poet made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Todhunter (December 30, 1839 - October 25th, 1916) was an Irish poet and playwright who wrote seven volumes of poetry, and several plays. ... November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining until the end of the year. ... Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and outrageous stories satirised the Edwardian social scene in macabre and cruel ways. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Emile Verhaeren (May 21, 1855- November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet writing in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. ... Olindo Guerrini (14 October 1845 - 1916) was an Italian poet who also published under the pseudonyms Lorenzo Stechetti and Argia Sbolenfi. ... Petar Kočić Petar Kočić (Cyrillic - Петар Кочић) (1877 — 1916) was Serbian poet and writer. ... John Townsend Trowbridge circa 1904. ...

Killed in World War I

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... Rail-head front cover 2Lt Gilbert Waterhouse Serre Road Cemetry Grave 2Lt Gilbert Waterhouse, of the 2nd Bn Essex Regiment, was killed on July 1st 1916, the first day of The Somme, in World War 1. ... Combatants United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Newfoundland India France German Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Henry Rawlinson Ferdinand Foch Fritz von Below Strength 13 British divisions 6 French divisions 6 divisions Casualties British: 57,470 French: 7,000 10,000 - 12,000 The first day on the Somme... Combatants British Empire Australia Canada New Zealand Newfoundland South Africa United Kingdom France German Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Joseph Joffre Max von Gallwitz Fritz von Below Strength 13 British & 11 French divisions (initial) 51 British and 48 French divisions (final) 10. ... The Essex Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army. ... For the United States holiday, the Fourth of July, see Independence Day (United States). ... Alan Seeger in his French Foreign Legion uniform. ... Pete Seeger (1955) Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919) almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer and political activist. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) – 30 July 1918 near Seringes, France) was an American journalist and poet; his best-known work is a poem entitled Trees (1913) which was first published in a collection entitled Trees and Other Poems in 1914. ... Combatants France United Kingdom United States German Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Erich Ludendorff Casualties France: 95,000 Britain: 13,000 United States: 12,000 168,000 The Second Battle of the Marne, or Battle of Reims, was a major World War I battle fought from July 15 to August 5...

Awards

The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Verner von Heidenstam (July 6, 1859 - May 20, 1940) was a Swedish poet and a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. ...

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