Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 24 or April 25 – Daniel Defoe (the exact date is unknown), (born 1659), English author, writer, journalist, spy and poet, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where his grave can still be visited.
- December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte (born 1672), 59, French poet and author
- 'Abd al-ghani al-Nabulusi
- Mary Astell (born 1666), English feminist writer
- Penelope Aubin (born 1679), English novelist and translator
- Frances Norton, Lady Norton (born 1644), English religious poet and prose writer
- Elizabeth Thomas (born 1675), English
- Edward Ward (born 1660), satirical writer and publican
Read more about this topic: 1731 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)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)