Events
- January 23 — Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen (who will be killed by the end of the year).
- 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.
- Poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.
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“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
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