Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 6 – Idris Davies, Welsh poet, originally writing in Cymraeg, but later writing exclusively in English.
- May 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (born 1904), Showa period writer, poet and translator (surname: Hori)
- July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, 82, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplace
- September 1 – Bernard O'Dowd (born 1866) Co-founder of paper Tocsin, Australian
- September 3 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (born 1887), ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku?), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
- November 9 – Dylan Thomas, 39, Welsh poet, from a cerebral incident;
- November 30 – Francis Picabia, painter, poet
- Also:
- Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (born 1903), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
- Helena Jane Coleman
- George Herbert Clarke
- Louis Lavater (born 1867), Australian
- Mokichi Saitō (born 1882), Taishō period poet of the Araragi school, and a psychiatrist; father of novelist Kita Morio (surname: Saitō)
Read more about this topic: 1953 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)