1944 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

  • January 7 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek
  • March 5 – Alun Lewis, Anglo-Welsh school poet and war poet killed in Burma
  • March 28 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian writer and economist
  • April 4 – John Peale Bishop, American poet and man of letters
  • May 22 – William Ellery Leonard (born 1876), American poet and academic
  • June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet died in the D-Day invasion of Normandy; he was killed by enemy mortar fire while his regiment was advancing from Bayeux and is buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles.
  • July 3 – A. H. Reginald Buller, a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
  • July 18 – Thomas Sturge Moore (born 1870), English poet, author and artist
  • September 26 – Eunice Tietjens (born 1884), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
  • November 22 – Sadakichi Hartmann (born 1867), American
  • November 24 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (born 1884), Japanese author, poet, essayist, translator, musician and bohemian
  • Also:
    • Olivia Bush
    • Joseph Campbell, Irish poet and lyricist
    • Olive Custance, poet
    • Keith Castellain Douglas, killed in World War II at Normandy;
    • Ndoc Gjetja (died 2010), Albanian poet and magazine editor
    • Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
    • Frederick George Scott

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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)