Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Gilbert Highet, 71, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian, of cancer
- February 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905, American children's story writer and poet
- March 19 – Faith Baldwin, 84
- March 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
- April 14 – F.R. Leavis, 82, English literary critic
- May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
- May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
- July 2 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek
- June 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
- September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
- Also:
- Sankara Kurup (born 1901), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- P. Kunhiraman Nair (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (born 1919), Argentine author and poet
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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)