1964 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 22 – Zora Cross, Australian poet
  • April 5 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (born 1900), Japanese, Showa period literary critic, editor and poet
  • April 26 – E.J. Pratt, 81, a Canadian poet
  • May 5 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (born 1887), Japanese, Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
  • December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, 77 (born 1887), of a heart attack, English poet and critic
  • September 18 – Clive Bell, 83, English critic
  • October 10 – Oscar Williams, 64, American poet and anthologist
  • Also:
    • Raphael Campo, American poet
    • Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (born 1894), Japanese poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian

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