Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- August 22 – Sydney Thompson Dobell, 50, English poet and critic
- October 5 – Barry Cornwall, 86, English poet.
- October 5 – Bryan Procter (born 1787), English poet
- Also:
- Charles Shirley Brooks, English journalist, novelist and poet
- Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 (born1791), Buddhist nun, widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century; potter, painter and expert calligrapher
Read more about this topic: 1874 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)