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:
“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)
“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)