October 16

In literary history

• 1922T.S. Eliot published 'The Waste Land' in the first issue of his journal The Criterion. The poem that seemed to shatter English poetry into fragments had itself been cut to pieces by Ezra Pound, which is partly why it holds together.

Writers born on October 16

• Oscar Wilde (1854),
• Eugene O'Neill (1888),
• Dino Buzzati (1906),
• Günter Grass (1927)

The Daily Canon for October 16

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890).