Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- November 27 – Kamo no Mabuchi 賀茂真淵 (born 1697), Japanese Edo period poet and philologist
- December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (born 1715), German poet
- Also:
- William Falconer (born 1732), Scottish poet, died from drowning
- Sneyd Davies (born 1709), English
- James Merrick (born 1720), English poet and scholar
Read more about this topic: 1769 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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)