Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
- July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
- July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般?), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku, and a haikai poet
- October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
- November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
- December 12 – John Scott (born 1731), 53, English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
- Also:
- John Seccomb, (born 1708), clergyman and poet, United States
- Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English playwright, poet and author
- Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (born 1716), Japanese, Edo period poet and painter; along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haiku poets of all time (surname: Yosa)
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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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)