Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 23 — Joseph Warton (born 1722), English poet and critic
- April 25 – William Cowper, pronounced "Cooper" (born 1731), English poet and hymn writer
- June 29 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (born 1719), German
- September 29 – Michael Denis (born 1729), Austrian writer, poet, translator, librarian and zoologist
- Also:
- Arnimal (birth year not known), Indian, Kashmiri poet; a woman
- Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (born 1743), Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
- Mary Robinson (born 1757), English poet and novelist
Read more about this topic: 1800 In Poetry
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)
“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)