1949 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

  • March 2 – Sarojini Naidu (born 1879), Indian writing Indian poetry in English
  • May 5 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (born 1885), Showa period Japanese poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
  • May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate
  • Also:
    • William Hervey Allen
    • Lilian Bowes-Lyon, English poet
    • Alice Corbin Henderson (born 1881), American poet
    • Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, also known simply as "Ulloor" (born 1877), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, scholar and government official who published a five-volume history of Malayalam literature

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