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)
“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)