Deaths
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- 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
Read more about this topic: 1958 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)