1779 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

  • March 4 – Heinrich Leopold Wagner (born 1747), German writer and poet
  • April 1 – John Langhorne (born 1735), English poet and clergyman
  • Also:
    • Elizabeth Amherst (born c. 1716), English poet and amateur naturalist
    • John Armstrong (born 1709), English poet and physician
    • Peter Wilhelm Hensler (born 1742), German
    • Thomas Penrose
    • Kenrick Prescot

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    On almost the incendiary eve
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    This is the 184th Demonstration.
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    hurts no one makes no one desperate
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    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.
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