1929 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • March 8 – Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, 45 (born 1883), British poet and Anglican priest nicknamed "Woodbine Willy" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers
  • March 28 – Katharine Lee Bates, 69, American poet best knonw as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful"
  • June 8 – Bliss Carman, 68 (born 1861), Canadian poet
  • July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist

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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)

    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)

    On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)