1974 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

• January 20 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic
• February 4 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (born 1892), Japanese, Showa period poet
• March 19 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, novelist and playwright
• June 9 — Miguel Ángel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan poet, author, writer, journalist and diplomat
• July 5 – John Crowe Ransom, 86
• July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, 83, Swedish poet, author, playwright, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951
• July 24 – Tyler Parker, 70
• August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, at 66
• September 6 – Julian Davis, 72
• September 15 – Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name (together with Utosei and then Jugatsutei) of Arishima Mibuma (born 1882), Japanese novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle
• October 4 – Anne Sexton, 45, American poet, of suicide;
• October 16 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (born 1906), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• October 21 – Kaoru Maruyama 丸山 薫 (born 1899) Japanese
• October 28 – David Jones, 78, English poet and artist
• December 16 – Kostas Varnalis (born 1884), Greek
• Also:
  • Padraic Fallon (born 1905), Irish (see "Works published in English" section, above)
  • Paula Ludwig (born 1900), German
  • Eric Roach