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1915
 
    
Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology       
1915
 
    
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece       
1916
 
    
'Earth's the right place for love' in Robert Frost's 'Birches', included in his collection Mountain Interval       
1916
 
    
Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier       
1916
 
    
The Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) publishes her first collection, Sea Garden       
1917
 
   
Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain      
Record of the injuries of Wilfred Owen in 1917
National Archives, Kew

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1917
 
    
Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque       
1918
 
   
In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution      
1918
 
    
Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war       
1919
 
    
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos