Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- August 27 – James Thomson, 47 (born 1700), Scots poet and playwright who wrote the words to Rule Britannia
- November 25 – Isaac Watts (born 1674), English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"
- Also:
- Mohammed Awzal (born 1670), Moroccan religious Berber poet
- Antoine Danchet (born 1671), French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet
- Christopher Pitt (born 1699), English poet and translator
Read more about this topic: 1748 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)