1960 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

  • January 14 – Ralph Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
  • February 28 – F. S. Flint (born 1885), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
  • March 23 – Franklin Pierce Adams, 78 (born 1881), American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of poetry
  • May 30 – Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of lung cancer
  • June 17 – Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French
  • August 8 – Harry Kemp, 76 (born 1883) American poet
  • August 19 – Frances Cornford (born 1886), English poet
  • November 9 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (born 1886), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet and playwright
  • Also:
    • Walter D'Arcy Creswell (born 1896), New Zealand
    • David Diop

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)