Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 26 – Noël Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack
- May 20 – Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor, and arts patron
- June 4 – Arna Bontemps, 70 (born 1902, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack
- August 17 – Conrad Aiken, 84, of a heart attack
- September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, poet, author and academic
- September 23 – Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia
- September 28 – W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century
- October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann (born 1926) Austrian poet and author
- November 22 – Ramon Guthrie, 77,
- November 23 – Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet
- November 24 – John G. Neihardt (born 1881), American author and poet
- date not known – Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold
Read more about this topic: 1973 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)