Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- May 4 — Isabella Banks (born 1821), English poet and novelist
- July 20 — Jean Ingelow (born 1829), English poet and novelist
- September 14 — James Joseph Sylvester (born 1814), English mathematician who translated poetry from the original French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek; author of The Laws of Verse, in which he attempted to codify a set of laws for prosody in poetry
- December 22 – William Gay, (born 1865), Scots-born Australian poet
- date not known – Velutteri Keshavan Vaidyar (born 1839), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Read more about this topic: 1897 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)