Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 23 – Thomas Tickell (born 1685), English poet and man of letters
- December 11 – Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (born 1711), German
- date not known – John Adams (born 1704), English Colonial American clergyman and poet
- date not known – Jane Brereton (born 1685), English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine
- date not known – Upendra Bhanja (born either 1670 or 1688), poet of Oriya Literature and awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets"
- date not known – Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck (born 1663), Swedish poet
Read more about this topic: 1740 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)