Deaths
Note "Killed in World War I" subsection, below. Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 26 – Mário de Sá-Carneiro, novelist and poet
- October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, poet
- October 25 – John Todhunter, 76, Irish poet and playwright
- November 27 – Emile Verhaeren, Symbolist poet
- December 9 – Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (born 1867), Japanese Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait was on the 1000 yen note
- Also:
- Sacchidananda Tribhuban Deb (born 1872), Indian, Oriya-language poet and patron of Oriya literature; king of Bamanda, a feudal state in Sambalpur District
- Olindo Guerrini
- Petar Kočić
- Arabella Eugenia Smith
- John Townsend Trowbridge, American poet and author
- William Little (Australian poet) (born 1839), Australian
- Asad Pare, Indian, Kashmiri-language, Sufi
- Sacchindananda Tribhuban Deb (born 1872), Indian, Oriya-language poet and king of Bamanda, a feudal state in Sambalpur District; patron of Oriya writers
Read more about this topic: 1916 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)