1979 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
  • October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
  • December 7 — Nicolas Born, (born 1937), German
  • Also:
    • I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
    • Ernst Meister (born 1911), German

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