Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, 67, Chilean
- April 22 – Roy Campbell, 56, South African poet and satirist
- March 11 – Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
- March 28 – Christopher Morley, 66, American journalist, novelist, and poet
- August 13 – Joseph Warren Beach, American author, book critic and educator
- September 20 – Merrill Moore, 54, American psychiatrist and poet
- September 22 – Oliver St. John Gogarty, 79 (born 1878), Irish poet, writer, physician and ear surgeon, one of the most prominent Dublin wits, political figure of the Irish Free State, and now best known as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, of a heart attack
- October 26 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek
- Also:
- Skipwith Cannell (born 1887), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
- Charles Badger Clark
- Arthur R. D. Fairburn
- Saishu Onoe 尾上柴舟 (born 1876), Japanese tanka poet and calligrapher
Read more about this topic: 1957 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)
“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)
“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)