1957 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, 67, Chilean
  • April 22 – Roy Campbell, 56, South African poet and satirist
  • March 11 – Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
  • March 28 – Christopher Morley, 66, American journalist, novelist, and poet
  • August 13 – Joseph Warren Beach, American author, book critic and educator
  • September 20 – Merrill Moore, 54, American psychiatrist and poet
  • September 22 – Oliver St. John Gogarty, 79 (born 1878), Irish poet, writer, physician and ear surgeon, one of the most prominent Dublin wits, political figure of the Irish Free State, and now best known as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, of a heart attack
  • October 26 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek
  • Also:
    • Skipwith Cannell (born 1887), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
    • Charles Badger Clark
    • Arthur R. D. Fairburn
    • Saishu Onoe 尾上柴舟 (born 1876), Japanese tanka poet and calligrapher

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