1958 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

• January 3 – Gerald William Bullett, 64, British author and critic
• March 24 – Seamus O'Sullivan (born 1879), Irish
• May 5 – James Branch Cabell, 79, whose 52 books included poetry, of a cerebral hemorrhage (to help people remember the pronunciation of his name, he composed the ditty, "Tell the rabble my name is CA-bell.")
• June 10 – Angelina Weld Grimke (born 1880), African American lesbian journalist and poet
• June 28 (disputed) – Alfred Noyes, English poet (born 1880) according to some sources, he died on June 25, but others, including Encyclopædia Britannica give June 28)
• September 11 – Robert W. Service, 84 (born 1874), Scots-Canadian poet who wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee
• October 29 – Zoë Akins, 72, American poet and dramatist who won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for her drama version of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid
• November 12 – Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (born 1881), Japanese poet and academic
• December 20 – Sir John Collings Squire, British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor.

• Also:
  • Emil Barth (poet) (born 1900), German
  • Francis Carco, French poet and novelist
  • Yves Gérard le Dantec, French
  • Vallathol Narayana Menon (born 1878), Indian, Malayalam language poet