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1916 in poetry
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Events
July 14 — At the first public soiree at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, Hugo Ball recited the first Dada manifesto (see text ).
October 6 — By some accounts, the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature coalesced by this date at the cabaret, where Ball, Emmy Hennings , Tristan Tzara , Hans Arp , Richard Huelsenbeck , Sophie Täuber and others discussed art and put on performances expressing their disgust with World War I and the interests they believed 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.[1]
Works published
Hilda Doolittle (H.D. ), Sea Garden
Robert Frost , Mountain Interval , including "Out, Out--"
Antonio Machado , Campos de Castilla (revised edition)
D. H. Lawrence , Amores
Ezra Pound , Lustra
Carl Sandburg , Chicago Poems
Robert Service , Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Charles Hamilton Sorley , Marlborough and Other Poems
William Butler Yeats , "Easter 1916 ", 1916 book Responsibilities and Other Poems
Some Imagist Poets second anthology
Births
Deaths
April 26 — Mário de Sá-Carneiro , novelist and poet
May 31 — Gorch Fock , poet and novelist
September 22 — Edward Wyndham Tennant , war poet
October 7 — James Whitcomb Riley , poet
October 25 — John Todhunter , 76, Irish poet and playwright
November 14 — H. H. Munro ("Saki"), 45, English poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright
November 27 — Emile Verhaeren , Symbolist poet
date not known:
Killed in World War I
Awards and honors
Notes
^ Richardson, Joan. Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879-1923, New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986, p. 445
See also
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