1943 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 3 – F. M. Cornford, 68 (born 1874), English classical scholar and poet
• February 27 – Kostis Palamas, Greek
• March 10 – Lawrence Binyon, 72 (born 1869), English poet, dramatist and art scholar
• March 13 – Stephen Vincent Benét, 44 (born 1898), American poet
• March 19 – Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (born 1890), Japanese novelist and poet (a woman; surname: Takano)
• October 7 – Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, 63, English poet and author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness
• October 24 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (born 1912), Canadian considered "Quebec's first truly modern poet"
• November 26 – Charles G. D. Roberts (born 1860), Canadian poet and writer known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he served as an inspiration for other writers of his time; also known as one of the "Confederation poets" (together with his cousin Bliss Carman, William Wilfred Campbell Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott)

• Also:
  • Sidney A. K. Keyes, killed in Tunisia in World War II
  • Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet
  • Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (born 1903), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and academic
  • K. V. Simon, (born 1883), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
  • William Soutar, leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Bedridden from 1930, he eventually contracted and died of tuberculosis.
  • Bertram Warr