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:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
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...
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
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