Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford (UK)
- January 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth (UK)
- January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French
- March 31 - Charlotte Brontë (UK)
- June 29 - Delphine de Girardin, French
- November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz (born 1798), Polish Romantic poet, died in Istanbul while he was organizing Polish and Jewish volunteers to fight against Russia in the Crimean War
- December 18 - Samuel Rogers (UK)
- Date not known:
- Robert Montgomery
- Mahmud Gami (born 1765), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
Read more about this topic: 1855 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)
“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)
“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)