Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 28 – Esther Johnson known as "Stella", inspiration of Jonathan Swift (born 1681). Swift, who rushed back from England last year when he was told she was deathly ill, could not keep himself at her bedside when she died. Nor does he attend her funeral. Many years later, a lock of hair, assumed to be hers, was found in his desk, wrapped in a paper bearing the words, "Only a woman's hair".
- Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (born 1663), Italian critic and poet
- Bernard de la Monnoye (born 1641), French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic
- Richardson Pack
- Aogán Ó Rathaille (born 1670), Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem
- Heinrich Theobald Schenk (born 1656), American hymn writer and pastor
Read more about this topic: 1728 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)