1962 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

• 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