Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 29 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian, killed in a duel
- June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian
- September 8 – Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, English
- October 17 – George Colman the Younger (born 1762), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- October 19 – Hendrik Doeff, (born 1764), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
- date not known
- Thomas Green Fessenden, (born 1771), American
- Lukijan Mušicki (born 1777), Serbian poet, prose writer, and polyglot
Read more about this topic: 1837 In Poetry
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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)