1952 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

  • February 3 – Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明 pen-name of Kambara Hayao (born 1876), Taishō and Showa period Japanese poet and novelist
  • March 1 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 (born 1891), late Taishō period and early Showa period Japanese playwright, novelist and haiku poet (under the pen-name of Santei)
  • August 22 – E. J. Brady (born 1869), Australian
  • September 26 – George Santayana (born 1863), Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
  • November 16 – Charles Maurras, 84, French author, poet, and critic
  • November 18 – Paul Éluard, 56, French poet who broke with Surrealism when he became a Stalinist
  • November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
  • December 27 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan, who wrote under the pen name "Joseph O'Brien" (born 1878), Australian
  • Also:
    • Wendy Jenkins, Australian
    • Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist
    • Arthur Shearly Cripps

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    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)

    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)

    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)