1936 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907
  • April 30 – A. E. Housman, 77, English poet and writer and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad
  • June 11 – Robert E. Howard, 30, American writer and poet, committed suicide
  • June 14 – G. K. Chesterton English writer, journalist, poet, biographer and Christian apologist
  • August 19 – Federico García Lorca, 38, Spanish dramatist, poet, painter, pianist, composer, and emblematic member of the Generation of '27, killed by Nationalist partisans at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (see "Works published" above)
  • September 26 – Harriet Monroe, 75 (born 1860, American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts best known as founder and long time editor of Poetry magazine, of a cerebral haemorrhage
  • December 28 – John Cornford, 21, English Communist poet, in the Spanish Civil War
  • December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, 72, Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher
  • Also:
    • Govinda Kristna Chettur
    • Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (born 1859), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
    • Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
    • Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, 73, Arab poet, philosopher and champion of women's rights

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