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:
“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)
“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)