Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 26 – Narmadashankar Dave, also known as "Narmad" (born 1833), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
- April 15 – Abram Joseph Ryan, American poet, active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Roman Catholic priest who was called the "Poet-Priest of the Confederacy"
- July 6 – Paul Hamilton Hayne, 56, American poet, critic, and editor
- October 7 – William Barnes, 86, English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
- December 10 – Emily Dickinson, 55, American poet almost unknown in her lifetime, later regarded (with Walt Whitman) as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets
Read more about this topic: 1886 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)