1978 in Poetry - Deaths

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