Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- June 23 – Mark Akenside (born 1721), 48, British poet and physician
- August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (born 1752), suicide by arsenic poisoning rather than death by starvation at the young age of 17. Although his death was little noticed at the time, he was later an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics.
- Also:
- Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (born 1724), German
- Kunchan Nambiar (born 1705), Malayalam language poet, performer, satirist
- Francis Williams (born 1702), black Jamaican scholar and poet
Read more about this topic: 1770 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)