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—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats, first published this September Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * March * * 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''. * July 1 * * 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/killedsomme.html )〕 The Battle of the Somme continues until October 18, during which Robert Graves is seriously wounded (believed killed) 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. * * W. B. Yeats makes his fifth and final proposal of marriage to the newly widowed Maud Gonne in France. * July 14 – At the first public soiree at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich) in Switzerland, Hugo Ball recites the first Dada manifesto (''see'' text). * August 17 – F. W. Harvey becomes a Prisoner of War. * October 6 – By some accounts, the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature coalesces by this date at the cabaret, where Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber and others discuss art and put on performances expressing their disgust with World War I and the interests they believe inspired it. * When Wallace Stevens' job as a lawyer for a New York City insurance company is abolished as a result of mergers, he joins the home office of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moves to Hartford, where he will remain the rest of his life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1916 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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