Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 25 – David Bates, 60, American poet
- June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
- June ?? – William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
- July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
- November 24 – Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (born 1846), French
- December 22 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (born 1836), Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
- Also:
- James M. Whitfield
- Rasul Mir, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
Read more about this topic: 1870 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)
“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)
“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)