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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== * 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. 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「1918 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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