Historical Events in 1917
111 curated events dated to this year, and 219 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1917
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Death in Battle
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Publication of 'Prufrock and Other Observations'
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Russian October Revolution Establishes Soviet State
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The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of Passchendaele
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W. B. Yeats at Thoor Ballylee — The Tower Poems
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Death of Edward Thomas
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Ernest Rutherford Splits the Atom
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First Major Publication: 'The Unquiet Grave'
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Gotha raids bring fixed-wing bombing to London
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Graduation from Vassar College
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Jazz Emerges in New Orleans
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Marriage to Una Call Kuster
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Owen is Admitted to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh
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Publication of 'Last Poems'
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Publication of 'Negro Soldiers'
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Publication of 'Renascence and Other Poems'
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Publication of 'Songs to Joannes'
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Publication of 'The Dark Lantern'
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Publication of 'The Kid Has Gone to the Colors'
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Publication of Ardours and Endurances
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Publication of first poetry collection 'Asphalt and Other Poems'
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Publication of The Tree of Heaven and A Defence of Idealism
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Russian Revolution and Nationalization of Publishing
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SS Mendi Sinks in the English Channel
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The Halifax Explosion
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Valéry's First Major Publication
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Viktor Shklovsky Publishes 'Art as Technique'
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Wilfred Owen's Friendship with Siegfried Sassoon
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Balfour Declaration and Zionist Movement
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Cummings' Experience in World War I
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Death of His Father
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Death of Sister from Tuberculosis
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Enlistment in the U.S. Army
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First Major Publication
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First Major Publication: 'The New Poetry'
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First Major Publication: 'The Pot of Earth'
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First Publication: Penciled Poems
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Friendship with Wilfred Owen
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Initiation into the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross
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Involvement in World War I
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Isaac Rosenberg Writes 'Louse Hunting' in the Trenches
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Jones publishes Flag of the Free
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Marcel Duchamp Presents Fountain
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Marriage to Gala
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Marriage to John Corbin
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Move to Greenwich Village
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Owen Arrives on the Western Front in France
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Owen Suffers Shell Shock and is Evacuated to England
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Owen's Poetic Style Development
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Publication of 'A Picker of Pebbles'
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Publication of 'Gone to Earth'
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Publication of 'The Happy Warrior'
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Publication of 'The House of All Sorts'
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Publication of 'The New Poetry' Anthology
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Publication of 'The Silver Trumpet'
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Publication of Just Folks
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Publication of Strange Meetings
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Recognition in The Crisis
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Russian February Revolution
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Service in World War I
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Siegfried Sassoon's Anti-War Protest at Craiglockhart
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The Global Spread of the Soy Sauce Industrial Standardization by Kikkoman
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The Marriage of Yeats and Georgie Hyde-Lees
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United States Enters World War I
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Wilfred Owen Meets Sassoon at Craiglockhart
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Wilfred Owen's Convalescence at Craiglockhart
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Wilfred Owen's First Published Poem
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Zimmermann Telegram
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Cummings' Arrest and Imprisonment
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Friendship with Virginia Woolf
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Joining the Army Service Corps
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Lee Union-Alls Issued as Standard Workwear During World War I
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Marriage to Edwin Pond Parker II
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Marriage to Jean Starr Untermeyer
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Marriage to Jessie McDonald
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Marriage to Margaret Smith
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May Sinclair is elected to the Aristotelian Society
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NAACP Silent Protest Parade
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Owen is Discharged from Craiglockhart and Posted to Scarborough
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Parents' Divorce and Family Turmoil
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Publication of 'Love Songs'
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Publication of 'The Chinese Nightingale'
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Publication of 'The Hound of Heaven'
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Publication of 'The New Poetry'
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Publication of 'The Road to the Sea'
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Renault FT Light Tank with Rotating Turret
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Retirement from Yale University
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Siegfried Sassoon's Anti-War Protest
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The Brewster Body Shield and Early Bulletproof Fabric Tests
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The Implementation of United States wartime Meatless Tuesdays
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The World Book Encyclopedia is Founded
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US Troops Arrive in France
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Battle of Caporetto
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Chypre Fragrance Family Established
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Cottingley Fairies Photographs
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Edward Thomas Killed
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Hart Crane's First Major Publication and Recognition
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Kreymborg's Involvement with the New York Dada Movement
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Marriage to Florence E. Williams
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Marriage to Mary E. Bax
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Nichols begins public poetry readings
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Owen Edits The Hydra Magazine at Craiglockhart
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Rediscovery of the Chinchorro Mummies
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Relocation to London
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Sugar Rationing During World War I
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T.S. Eliot Publishes 'Prufrock'
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Resumed
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Wartime Corset Steel Requisition: U.S. Government Appeals to Women
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Publication of Poems of Conformity
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Publication of Tristan and Iseult Play
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Zipper Improvement
Poets alive in 1917
219 poets
Poets in 1917
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