Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 9 – Countee Cullen, 42 (born 1903), African American poet
- March 1 – Adriana Porter, 89, Wiccan poet
- May 25 – Ernest Rhys, 87, British poet, author, novelist, essayist best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
- July 8 – Orrick Glenday Johns, 59, American poet and playwright
- July 27 – Gertrude Stein, 73 (born 1874, poet and dramatist, of cancer
Read more about this topic: 1946 In Poetry
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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