Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 5 – Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 (born 1763), Japanese poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki
- January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb (born 1785), English aristocrat, novelist and poet
- April 11 – Edward Coote Pinkney (born 1802), English-born American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor and editor
- June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín (born 1760), Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet
- September 26 – John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (born 1795), American lawyer, editor and poet
- date not known – Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins (born 1763), English novelist and occasional poet
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)