Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- May 31 — Horatius Bonar, Scottish poet
- June 8 — Gerard Manley Hopkins, 54, English poet, of typhoid
- June 15 — Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- September 23 — Eliza Cook, 70, English poet
- October 25 — Émile Augier, French dramatist and poet
- November 18 — William Allingham, Irish poet
- December 10 — Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet and dramatist
- December 12 — Robert Browning, English poet, died on the same day his book, Asolando; Fancies and facts, was published; he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; his grave now lies immediately adjacent to that of Alfred Tennyson
- November — Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79, English writer and poet
- Date not known:
- Amy Levy, English poet and novelist, by suicide
- Cornelius Mathews
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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)
“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)