1916 in poetry
—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats, first published this September
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Events
- Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) is wounded in the head by shell fragments while serving as a lieutenant in the French infantry on the Western Front (World War I).
- The first poems of English children's author Enid Blyton are published, in Nash's Magazine.
- First day on the Somme: Poets W. N. Hodgson, Will Streets, Gilbert Waterhouse, Henry Field, Alfred Ratcliffe, Alexander Robertson and Bernard White are among the 19,000 British soldiers killed on this day alone. The Battle of the Somme continues until October 18, during which time American poet Alan Seeger (serving with the French), English poet Edward Wyndham Tennant and short story writer 'Saki' are killed, Robert Graves is seriously wounded (believed killed), Ford Madox Hueffer suffers concussion and shellshock and A. A. Milne is invalided out, Siegfried Sassoon wins the Military Cross and Cameron Highlander Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna composes the Scottish Gaelic love song An Eala Bhàn ("The White Swan") in the oral literature tradition. J. R. R. Tolkien serves as a communications officer.
- W. B. Yeats makes his fifth and final proposal of marriage to the newly widowed Maud Gonne in France.
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