1942 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 4 – Joan Vincent Murray, 24, Canadian American poet
• February 2 – Daniil Kharms, 36, early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer, dramatist, and founder of OBERIU poetry school, probably of starvation in his cell at a Leningrad asylum, after his arrest
• March 28 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet
• April 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, known as "L.M. Montgomery", a Canadian poet and author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
• May 7 – William Baylebridge (born 1883), the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge, an Australian poet and short story writer
• May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (born 1886), Taishō and early Showa period Japanese literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan" (surname: Hagiwara)
• May 12 – Shaw Neilson, Australian poet
• May 26 – Libero Bovio, Italian poet in the Neapolitan dialect
• March 28 – Miguel Hernández, 31, Spanish poet, from tuberculosis in harsh conditions during his imprisonment in Spain
• May 29 – Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子 pen-name of Yosano Shiyo (born 1878), late Meiji period, Taishō period and early Showa period Japanese poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan (surname: Yosano)
• November 2 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (born 1885), Taishō and Showa period Japanese tanka poet (surname: Kitahara)
• December 23 – Konstantin Bal'mont, Russian poet

• Also:
  • Jakob van Hoddis (born 1887), German
  • Sadakazu Fujii 藤井 貞和, Japanese poet and literary scholar (surname: Fujii)