Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 15 (or January 16) – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (born 1738), German poet, playwright and storyteller
- March 11 – Hannah Cowley (born 1743), English playwright and poet
- March 23 – Thomas Holcroft (born 1745), English novelist, poet and playwright
- March 25 – Anna Seward, called "the Swan of Lichfield" (born 1747), English poet
- May 1 – Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (born 1736), German writer, military scientist, educator and poet
- August 8 – Ueda Akinari, 上田 秋成, also known as "Ueda Shūsei" (born 1734), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet
Read more about this topic: 1809 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)
“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)