Deaths
- March 23 – John Davidson (born 1857), Scottish poet and playwright
- March 24 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright, poet, prose writer and collector of folklore
- April 10 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet
- May 18 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet
- June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, 59, American novelist,short story writer, and poet
- August 21 – George Cabot Lodge (born 1873, American
- November 30 – Romesh Chundar Dutt (born 1848), writer of Indian poetry in English; cousin of Toru Dutt
- November 10 – George Essex Evans (born 1863), Australian
- Also:
- John Bannister Tabb, American
- Richard Watson Gilder, American poet and editor
- William T. Goodge (born 1862), Australian
- William Reed Huntington (born 1838), American Episcopal priest, author and poet
- Nabinchandra Sen (born 1847), Bengali poet and writer
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
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stretching between people on the street
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The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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