1916 in literature

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Events from the year 1916 in literature .

Events[]

  • January
    • The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter G. Woodson, father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week" in the United States.[1]
    • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story, The Nose, is published in a student magazine.[2]
  • March 1 – The National Library of Wales completes its transfer to purpose-built premises in Aberystwyth.[3]
  • March 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt marry at St Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, England. They will serve as inspiration for the fictional characters Beren and Lúthien. Tolkien leaves for military service in France at the beginning of June.
2/Lt J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916
  • March 30 – Don Marquis introduces the characters Archy and Mehitabel in "The Sun Dial" column in The Evening Sun (New York City). Archy is a poetry-writing cockroach unable to operate the typewriter shift key; Mehitabel is a cat.
  • April–June – Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry live as neighbours to D. H. and Frieda Lawrence at Higher Tregerthen, near Zennor in Cornwall (England).[4]
  • April 24–30 – In the Easter Rising in Ireland, members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army. Of the seven subsequently executed leaders of the Rising, Thomas MacDonagh, Patrick Pearse and Joseph Plunkett are poets and James Connolly a balladeer and playwright. The events are the theme of W. B. Yeats' poem "Easter, 1916", first published this September.
  • May 16 – Natsume Sōseki's novel Light and Darkness (明暗, Mei An) begins to be serialized in the Tokyo and Osaka editions of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, but will remain unfinished at the author's death on December 9, aged 49.
  • July 1
    • The poets W. N. Hodgson, Will Streets, Gilbert Waterhouse, Henry Field, Alfred Ratcliffe, Alexander Robertson and Bernard White are among 19,000 British soldiers killed on the First day on the Somme alone.[5] The same day is chosen for the death of fictitious poet Cecil Valance in Alan Hollinghurst's 2011 novel The Stranger's Child. The Battle of the Somme continues until October 18, during which time American poet Alan Seeger (serving with the French), Irish writer Tom Kettle, English poet Edward Wyndham Tennant, English short story writer Saki and English bowler Percy Jeeves (whose name P. G. Wodehouse borrowed for his character) are all killed. The English writer Robert Graves, novelist Stuart Cloete, playwright/actor Arnold Ridley and artist/poet David Jones are seriously injured – Graves is for a time believed killed. Ford Madox Hueffer suffers concussion and shell shock. A. A. Milne and J. R. R. Tolkien are invalided out. The English poet Siegfried Sassoon wins the Military Cross. The Cameron Highlander Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna composes the Scottish Gaelic love song An Eala Bhàn (The White Swan) in the oral literature tradition. The future U.K. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is wounded in September's Battle of Flers–Courcelette; sheltering in a slit trench, he reads Aeschylus in the original Greek.
    • W. B. Yeats makes his fifth and final proposal of marriage to the newly widowed Maud Gonne in France.
  • Summer – In the United States, 15-year-old Margaret Mitchell writes a novella called Lost Laysen in two notebooks. She will later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book remains lost until the mid-1990s. It is published in 1996. Meanwhile, Mitchell will go on to write Gone with the Wind.
  • September – Joseph Conrad's novella The Shadow Line begins to be serialized in The English Review (London) and the Metropolitan Magazine (New York).
  • October 6 – The poet Perpessicius loses his right arm fighting for the Romanians in a skirmish at Muratan.[6]
  • October 19 – New premises for the German National Library open in Leipzig.
  • December – The first of many editions of Robert Baden-Powell's The Wolf Cub's Handbook is published.[7]
  • December 29 – James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form, in New York by B. W. Huebsch.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

  • Jacinto Benavente – Campo de armiño (Ermine Field)
  • Hall Caine
    • The Prime Minister
    • The Iron Hand (also known as The Call of the King)
  • Luigi Chiarelli – La maschera e il volto: grottesco in tre atti (The Mask and the Face)
  • Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound (translated & edited) – Certain Noble Plays of Japan (published)
  • Susan Glaspell – Trifles
  • Harley Granville-Barker – Farewell to the Theatre
  • Sacha Guitry – Let's Make a Dream
  • Walter C. Hackett - The Barton Mystery
  • Franz Kafka – The Warden of the Tomb (Der Gruftwächter; writing commenced)
  • Jack London – The Acorn Planter: A California Forest Play
  • André de Lorde – Le Laboratoire des hallucinations
  • Gregorio Martínez Sierra – El reino de Dios (The Kingdom of God)
  • Allan Monkhouse – Night Watches: a comedy in one act
  • Eden Philpotts – The Farmer's Wife
  • Sophie Treadwell – Claws
  • W. B. Yeats – At the Hawk's Well (private performance)

Poetry[]

Main article: 1916 in poetry
  • Robert Frost – Mountain Interval
  • Yvan Goll – Requiem pour les morts de l'Europe
  • Joseph Lee – Ballads of Battle
  • Amy Lowell – Men, Women, and Ghosts
  • Antonio Machado – Campos de Castilla (revised edition)
  • Charlotte Mew – The Farmer's Bride
  • Ezra Pound – Lustra
  • Carl Sandburg – Chicago Poems
  • Muriel Stuart – Christ at Carnival and Other Poems
  • Katharine Tynan – Holy War
  • Gilbert Waterhouse – Rail-Head and other poems (published posthumously)
  • W. B. Yeats – "Easter, 1916" (written)
  • Sergei Yesenin – Радуница (Radunitsa, Ritual for the Dead)

Non-fiction[]

  • Max Aitken – Canada in Flanders
  • Hall Caine – Our Girls: Their Work for the War
  • Max Dvořák – Katechismus der Denkmalpflege (Catechism of Historical Preservation)
  • Ferdinand de Saussure (posthumous) – Cours de linguistique générale
  • Albert Einstein – "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie]" (The groundwork of general relativity), Annalen der Physik 49[9]
  • Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound – Noh, or, Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan
  • Israel Gollancz (ed.) – A Book of Homage to Shakespeare
  • Madison Grant – The Passing of the Great Race; or, The Racial Basis of European History
  • Ellen La Motte – The Backwash of War
  • Sydney Loch (as Sydney De Loghe) – The Straits Impregnable (military autobiography; 1st edn published as fiction)
  • Sir Oliver Lodge – Raymond; or, Life and Death, with Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection after Death
  • Ezra Pound – Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir
  • Mrs Humphry Ward – England's Effort: Six Letters to an American Friend
  • Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley – Women on the Land

Births[]

  • January 10 – Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorien author and politician (died 2019)
  • February 15 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (died 1995)
  • March 4
    • Giorgio Bassani, Italian author (died 2000)
    • Hans Eysenck, German-born England-based psychologist (died 1997)
  • April 12 – Beverly Cleary, American children's author (died 2021)
  • April 15 – Helene Hanff, American writer and critic (died 1997)
  • May 12 – Albert Murray, American critic, novelist and biographer (died 2013)
  • May 21 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (died 1997)
  • May 28 – Walker Percy, American novelist (died 1990)
  • June 16 – Barbara Skelton, English fiction writer, memoirist and literary figure (died 1996)
  • July 14 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (died 1991)
  • August 28 – C. Wright Mills, American sociologist (died 1962)
  • September 13 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (died 1990)[10]
  • September 14 – Eric Bentley, English-born American drama critic (died 2020)
  • September 17 – Mary Stewart (Mary Rainbow), English romantic suspense novelist (died 2014)
  • September 19 – Giles Romilly, English journalist (died 1967)
  • September 25 – Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist and short story writer (died 2010)
  • September 27 – S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky), Israeli author (died 2006)
  • October 3 – James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), English writer and veterinary surgeon (died 1995)
  • October 10 – David Gascoyne, English Surrealist poet (died 2001)
  • October 12 – Alice Childress, African American playwright, actress and novelist (died 1994)[11]
  • November 7 – Ian Niall (John Kincaid McNeillie), Scottish novelist and non-fiction writer (died 2002)
  • November 18 – Peter Weiss, German writer, painter and filmmaker (died 1982)
  • November 24 – James Pope-Hennessy, English biographer and travel writer (murdered 1974)
  • December 14 – Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (died 1965)
  • December 17 – Penelope Fitzgerald (Penelope Knox), English novelist (died 2000)

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish)[14]

References[]

  1. ^ Woodson, Carter G., ed. (January 1916). "The Journal of Negro History". Project Gutenberg. I. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-09-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Jenkins, David (2002). A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. p. 168. ISBN 1-86225-034-0.
  4. ^ Woods, Joanna (2007). "Katherine Mansfield, 1888–1923". Kōtare. Victoria University of Wellington. 7 (1): 63–98. doi:10.26686/knznq.v7i1.776. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  5. ^ "Poets Killed on the First Day of the Somme". Poetry of the First World War. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  6. ^ Ene, Ileana (2001). "Tabel cronologic". In Perpessicius (ed.). Studii eminesciene. Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. p. 14. ISBN 973-8031-34-6.
  7. ^ Shirley A. Scott (1990). Canada Knits: Craft and Comfort in a Northern Land. McGraw-Hill Ryerson. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-07-549973-2.
  8. ^ Albert Tezla (1970). Hungarian Authors; a Bibliographical Handbook. Harvard University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-674-42650-4.
  9. ^ "Albert Einstein Archives". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29.
  10. ^ "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990), writer of fiction". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39827. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 9 January 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ "Obituary: Alice Childress". The Independent. 2011-09-18. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  12. ^ "Jack London's death certificate, from County Record's Office, Sonoma Co., Nov. 22, 1916". The Jack London Online Collection. November 22, 1916. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  13. ^ Russell T. Clement; Annick Houzé; Annick Houze (1999). Neo-impressionist Painters: A Sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-313-30382-1.
  14. ^ "Verner von Heidenstam | Swedish author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

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