1971 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 2 – E. V. Knox, English poet and satirist (born 1881)
• May 9 – Ogden Nash, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse
• March 7 – Stevie Smith, 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor
• March 9 – Jean Follain, French poet
• March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), Japanese, late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
• June 13 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (born 1890), Japanese, poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
• June 25 – Charles Vildrac, French poet and playwright
• September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer
• July 3 – Jim Morrison, 27, American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors
• September 9 – Lenore G. Marshall, 72
• September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature
• November 14 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一 京助 (born 1882), Japanese linguist and poet; his son is linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi
• November 19 – Jacob Glatstein, 75, American Yiddish poet and critic
• December 14 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
• December 18 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence

• Also:
  • J. C. Beaglehole (born 1901), New Zealand
  • Clifford Dyment, British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist
  • R. A. K. Mason (born 1905), New Zealand
  • Alexander Young (poet)