Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 22 – Jean Chapelain (born 1595), French poet and writer
- June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville (born 1600), French poet and novelist
- October 10 – Thomas Traherne (born 1636), English poet and religious writer
- October 15 – Robert Herrick – (born 1591)
- October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson (born 1614), one of Iceland's most famous poets and a clergyman
- November 8 – John Milton (born 1608)
- Also:
- Nicolaes Borremans (born 1614), Dutch Remonstrants preacher, poet, and editor
- Mehmed IV Giray (born 1610), poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
- Neşâtî (born unknown), Ottoman Sufi mystical poet
Read more about this topic: 1674 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)