Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 25 – David Bates, 60, American poet
- June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
- June ?? – William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
- July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
- November 24 – Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (born 1846), French
- December 22 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (born 1836), Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
- Also:
- James M. Whitfield
- Rasul Mir, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
Read more about this topic: 1870 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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)