Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 6 – F. R. Higgins, poet
- January 13 – James Joyce, Irish poet and writer
- January 23 – John Oxenham, novelist and poet
- February 5 – A.B. (`Banjo') Paterson, Australian bush poet, journalist and author
- March 13 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (born 1880), American novelist and poet
- May 2 – Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (born 1905), Palestinian, Arab-language
- May 19 – Lola Ridge (born 1873), American anarchist poet, editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
- June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, poet
- August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, 80 (born 1861), a Bengali poet in India, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1913 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
- August 30 – Jiri Orten
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet
- Also:
- Aline Kilmer
- Alexander Vvedensky, Russian poet with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union; arrested under suspicion of planning treason and shipped off to a labor camp, he died of dysentery on the way (for the fate of his poetry, see Events section above)
Read more about this topic: 1941 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)