1968 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 14 – Dorothea Mackellar, 82, Australian poet and writer
• January 20 – David Stacton, 42
• January 25 – Yvor Winters, 67, American literary critic and poet
• February 16 – Jaime Sabartés, Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
• March 16 – Gunnar Ekelöf, 60, Swedish poet
• March 25 – Arnulf Øverland, 78, Norwegian poet
• April 26 – Donald Davidson, 74, American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author who organized the Nashville circle of poets called the Fugitives and an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.
• April 28 – Winfield Townley Scott, 58, American poet
• May – Erik Lindegren 58, Swedish poet
• May 9 – George Hill Dillon, 62
• June 1 – Witter Bynner, 86, American poet, writer and scholar
• June 12 – Sir Herbert Edward Read, at 74, English poet and critic of literature and art.
• June 14 – Salvatore Quasimodo, 66, Italian poet
• November 17 – Mervyn Peake, 57, British modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator.
• December 10 – Thomas Merton (born 1915), American poet, author and Roman Catholic monk, in a freak accident in a visit to Bangkok, Thailand
• date not known – Eckart Peterich (born 1900), German