Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
- July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
- April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
- May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
- August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
- October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
- December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer.of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
- December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830, English poet, of cancer
- Also:
- John Askham
- Robert Fuller Murray, of consumption
- Benjamin Franklin King
- Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
- Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyan (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Julia Augusta Webster
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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)
“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)