1953 in Poetry - Deaths

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)