Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 6 – F. R. Higgins, poet
- January 13 – James Joyce, Irish poet and writer
- January 23 – John Oxenham, novelist and poet
- February 5 – A.B. (`Banjo') Paterson, Australian bush poet, journalist and author
- March 13 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (born 1880), American novelist and poet
- May 2 – Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (born 1905), Palestinian, Arab-language
- May 19 – Lola Ridge (born 1873), American anarchist poet, editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
- June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, poet
- August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, 80 (born 1861), a Bengali poet in India, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1913 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
- August 30 – Jiri Orten
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet
- Also:
- Aline Kilmer
- Alexander Vvedensky, Russian poet with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union; arrested under suspicion of planning treason and shipped off to a labor camp, he died of dysentery on the way (for the fate of his poetry, see Events section above)
Read more about this topic: 1941 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)