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January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in The Nation).April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program.June — English poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.August 17 — English poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meet for the last time, in London, and spend what Sassoon later describes as "the whole of a hot cloudless afternoon together."November 4 — English war poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action, aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Oswestry a week later on Armistice Day.—Closing line of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen
December — The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (d. 1889; including The Wreck of the Deutschland, 1875/6) are published by his friend Robert Bridges; few were published in Hopkins's lifetime, so this presents his innovative sprung rhythm and imagery to many readers for the first time.Marie Joussaye, Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs.Wilson MacDonald, The Song Of The Prairie Land and Other Poems. Albert E. S. Smythe intr., Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.The Bengali Writers of English Verse: A Record and an Appreciation, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink U Co., 1918.; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 119 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomHarindranath Chattopadhyaya, The Feast of Youth, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House; India, Indian poetry in EnglishBaldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United KingdomTheodore Douglas Dunn, editor, The Bengali Book of English Verse, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co.; anthology; Indian poetry in EnglishMarian Allen, The Wind on the DownsLaurence Binyon, The New World: PoemsVera Brittain, Verses of a VADRupert Brooke, The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeÉmile Cammaerts, Messines and other Poems, Belgian-born poet writing in EnglishWalter de la Mare, Motley, and Other PoemsBaldoon Dhingra, Symphony of Love, Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United KingdomEleanor Farjeon, Sonnets and PoemsWilfrid Gibson, WhinOliver St. John Gogarty, The Ship, and Other PoemsHelen Hamilton, Napoo!A. P. Herbert, The Bomber Gipsy, and Other PoemsGerard Manley Hopkins (posthumous), Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsC. Morton Horne ("killed in action January 27, 1916"), Songs of the Shrapnel Shell, and Other Verse, Irish poet published simultaneously in the United States and United KingdomFord Madox Hueffer, On Heaven, and Poems written on active serviceAldous Huxley, The Defeat of Youth, and Other PoemsGeoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Rough Rhymes of a PadreD. H. Lawrence, New PoemsEwart Alan Mackintosh (posthumous), War, The Liberator, and Other Pieces, Scottish poetSusan Miles, DunchMargaret Postgate, Margaret Postgate's PoemsMorley Roberts, War LyricsSiegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other PoemsFredegond Shove, Dreams and JourneysDora Sigerson, The Sad Years and Other PoemsEdith Sitwell, Clowns' HousesSacheverell Sitwell, The People's PalaceGeoffrey Bache Smith (posthumous), A Spring Harvest (edited with preface by J. R. R. Tolkien)J. C. Squire, Poems, First SeriesEdward Thomas, Last PoemsKatharine Tynan, Herb o' Grace, poems in war-timeArthur Waley, editor and translator, One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, anthologyW. B. Yeats, Nine Poems, Irish poet published in the United KingdomConrad Aiken, The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other PoemsSherwood Anderson, Mid-American ChantsStephen Vincent Benet, Young AdventureJohn Gould Fletcher, The Tree of LifeAmy Lowell, Can Grande's CastleEdgar Lee Masters, Toward the GulfCharles Reznikoff, Rhythms, his first book of poetry, a small volume, self-publishedLola Ridge, The Ghetto and Other PoemsCarl Sandburg, Cornhuskers, Holt, Rinehart and WinstonWallace Stevens, "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" is first published (it will later be included in his first poetry book, Harmonium.C. J. Dennis, Australia:Digger SmithBackblock Ballads and Later VersesW. B. Yeats, Nine Poems, Irish poet published in the United KingdomGuillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Calligrammes, FranceJean Cocteau, Le Cap de Bonne Espérance, about the author's experience as a trapeze artist, written in vers brisésHenri de Régnier, 1914–1916: poésiesMax Jacob, Le Cornet à DèsOscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, AdramandoniPierre Reverdy,Les Ardoises du toitLes Jockeys camouflésTristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Vingt-cinq poèmesGerardo Diego, El romancero de la novia ("The Bride's Ballads"), SpainFederico García Lorca, Impressiones y paisajes ("Impressions and Landscapes"), SpainCésar Vallejo, Los heraldos negros ("The Black Heralds" ) the author's first book is "a bitter interpretation of provincial life" which "represented a break with symbolism and had a profound effect upon contemporary poetry in PeruAleksandr Blok, The Twelve, (Russian: Двенадцать, Dvenadtsat), a controversial long poem, one of the first poetic responses to Russia's 1917 October RevolutionDeva Kanta Barua, Sagar dekhisa, Indian, Assamese languageMiloš Crnjanski, Лирика Итаке ("Lyrics of Ithaca"), Serbian CyrillicAaro Hellaakoski, Nimettömiä lauluja, FinlandSir Muhammad Iqbal, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (The Secrets of Selflessness) published in Persian, his second philosophical poetry bookDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 1 – Muriel Spark (died 2006), Scottish novelist and poetFebruary 17 – William Bronk (died 1999), American poetApril 15 – Louis Coxe (died 1993), American poetApril 23 – James Kirkup (died 2009), English poet, translator and travel writerMay 10 – Jane Mayhall (died 2009), American poet and novelistMay 21 – Gopal Prasad Rimal (died 1973), Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwrightJuly 9 – John Heath-Stubbs (died 2006), English poet and translatorAugust 23 – Vinda Karandikar, also known as C. V. Karandikar (died 2010), Indian, Marathi-language poet, critic and translatorAugust 31 – Shimizu Motoyoshi 清水基吉 (died 2008), Japanese Showa and Heisei period novelist and poet (surname: Shimizu)September 30 – Gevorg Emin Գևորգ Էմին (died 1998), ArmenianNovember 16 – Nicholas Moore (died 1986), English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later drops out of the literary worldNovember 19 – W. S. Graham (died 1986), Scottish poet often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic poetsDecember 8 – Hans Børli (died 1989), Norwegian poet, novelist and writerDecember 30 – Al Purdy (died 2000), popular Canadian poetAlso:M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (died 1992), Indian, Kannada-language poet often said to be the pioneer of the "navya" (modernist) literary movement in KarnatakaIndra Dev Bhojvani, also known as "Indur", Indian, Sindhi-languageRam Narain Singh Dardi, Indian, Punjabi-language poet who wrote in the Lahndi dialectValentin Iremonger (died 1991), Irish poet and diplomatMaheswar Neog, Indian, Assamese-language scholar and poetSiddayya Puranika, Indian, Kannada-language poetAmritdhari Singha, Indian, Maithili-language writer, philosopher and poetNote two subsections, below. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Wilfred Campbell (born c.1860), Canadian poetJanuary 6 – Dora Sigerson (born 1866), Irish poetJune 10 – Arrigo Boito (born 1842), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composerJune 26 – Peter Rosegger (born 1843), Austrian poetSeptember 18 – Saul Adadi (born 1850), Libyan Sephardi Jewish hakham, rosh yeshiva and writer of piyyutimOctober 12 – Mary Hannay Foott (born 1846), Australian poetDecember 23 – Thérèse Schwartze (born 1851), Dutch portrait painter and poetAlso:A. R. Raja Raja Varma (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil ThampuranBalakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (born 1890), Indian, Marathi-language poet; died in a train accidentGobinda Rath (born 1848), Indian, Oriya-language poet and satiristGovind Vasudev Kanitkar (born 1854), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translatorJanuary 28 – John McCrae (born 1872), Canadian poet, author of "In Flanders Fields" and lieutenant colonel serving as a field surgeon in the war, from pneumoniaApril 1 – Isaac Rosenberg (born 1890), English war poet, killed in Fampoux in the Somme at dawn (there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat); first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926, his remains are identified and reinterred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, FranceJuly 30 – Joyce Kilmer (born 1886), American, killed in Second Battle of the Marne in France after volunteering to join Major William "Wild Bill" Donovan's First Battalion to lead the day's attack; while scouting, Kilmer is shot in the head near the village of Seringes; posthumously awarded the Croix de GuerreNovember 4 – Wilfred Owen (born 1893), English war poet, killed in action in France (see Events above)John Munro (Iain Rothach) (born 1889), Scottish Gaelic poet, killed serving with the Seaforth HighlandersSee also Guillaume Apollinaire belowDied in the 1918 flu pandemic
October 21 – E. J. Luce (born 1881), Jèrriais poet and journalistNovember 9 – Guillaume Apollinaire (born 1880), French language poet, writer and art critic credited with coining the word surrealism, dies two years after being wounded in World War I and still vulnerable from his injuryDecember 2 – Edmond Rostand (born 1868), French poet and dramatistAwards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs 
