1962 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, 85 (born 1887), American poet and playwright
  • March 18 – George Sylvester Viereck, 77 (born 1884), American poet and novelist, as well as a pro-German propagandist during both World War I and World War II
  • May 26 – Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 83 (died 1878), English poet
  • June 2 – Vita Sackville-West, 70 (born 1892), English novelist and poet
  • June 8 – William Stanley Braithwaite (born 1878), American
  • June 22 – John Holmes, 58, American educator and poet
  • July 27 – Richard Aldington, 70, English writer and poet
  • August 9 – Herman Hesse, 95, Swiss novelist and poet in German
  • August 18 – Rosemary Carr Benét, 65(?), poet and widow of Stephen Vincent Benét
  • September 3 – E.E. Cummings, at 67 (born 1894), American poet, of a stroke;
  • October 3 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (born 1885), Japanese haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
  • November 3 – Ralph Hodgson, 91 (born 1871), English poet
  • December 3 – Dame Mary Gilmore, 97, Australian socialist, poet and journalist
  • Also:
    • Alan Mulgan (born 1881), New Zealand

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