Deaths
Years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
- February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi (born 1878), Bengali poet
- May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican writer, humanist, Communist, and part of the Harlem Renaissance
- March 14 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (born 1888), Taishō and Showa period Japanese poet (surname: Senge)
- August 31 – Andrei Zhdanov, 52, Soviet government official and persecutor of poets, writers and artists; until the late 1950s, Zhdanovism, defined cultural production in the Soviet Union; reducing permissible culture to a straightforward, scientific chart, where a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value; Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that "incorrect art" was an ideological diversion
- December 13 – Michael Roberts, 46, British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, and teacher
- Also:
- Gordon Bottomley, English poet, known for his verse dramas
- Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (born 1911), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator
- Ridgely Torrence (born 1874), American
Read more about this topic: 1948 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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