Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 15 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (born 1892), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings
- April 26 – Robert Garioch (born 1909)
- May 31 – Falguni Ray (born 1945), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
- August 27 – James Larkin Pearson (born 1879), American poet, newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1953–1981
- September 12 – Eugenio Montale, 85, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
- October 26 – Marie Uguay, 26 (born 1955), French-Canadian), from bone cancer
- October 30 – George Brassens, French
- Also:
- Adolf Beiss (born 1900), German
- John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
- Ada Verdun Howell (born 1902), Australian
- Leonard Mann (born 1895), Australian
- Takis Sinopoulos (born 1917), Greek
Read more about this topic: 1981 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)