1774 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

  • Henry Baker (born 1698), naturalist, poet, sign-language developer
  • James Dance (poet)
  • Lady Dorothea du Bois
  • Robert Fergusson (born 1750), Scottish poet
  • Oliver Goldsmith (born 1728), English writer and poet
  • Charles Jenner
  • Johann Jacob Reiske (born 1716), German scholar and physician
  • Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (born 1713), Indian, Sindhi-language poet

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    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)

    There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
    Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)