Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 23 – Bettina von Arnim (born 1785), German writer, poet, composer and novelist
- January 23 – Iswarchandra Gupta (born 1811), Bengali poet and writer
- February 13 – Eliza Acton (born 1799), English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional
- March 30 – James Mathews Legaré
- April 3 – Reginald Heber – (born 1783, Church of England bishop, poet and hymn writer
- April 14 – Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson, (born about 1776), Irish novelist and poet
- July 23 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (born 1786), French
- August 28 – Leigh Hunt (born 1784), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
- November 28 – Washington Irving (born 1783) American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
- December 28 – Thomas Babington Macaulay (born 1800)British poet, historian and Whig politician from Scotland
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)