Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 19 – Leonard Bacon (born 1802), American Congregational preacher and writer
- May 22 – Victor Hugo, French
- April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canada
- April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (born 1847), Danish novelist and poet
- July 5 – Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English poet, novelist and playwright
- July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish writer and poet
- August 11 – Monckton Milnes
- August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
- September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist
Read more about this topic: 1885 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)