Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 5 – Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
- March 4 – Hamlin Garland (born 1860), American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
- March 7 – Edwin Markham (born 1852), American poet.
- March 23 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (born 1887), Showa period Japanese poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
- August 21 – Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat
- September 26 – William Henry Davies (born 1871), Welsh-born poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time
- October 11 – Taneda Santōka 種田 山頭火 pen name of Taneda Shōichi 種田 正 (born 1882), Japanese author and haiku poet (surname: Taneda)
Read more about this topic: 1940 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)
“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)