"Death of the Poet" (Russian: Смерть Поэта) is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally...
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caused by a fit of laughter. Though uncommon, death by laughter has been recorded from the times of ancient Greece to modern times. Usually, the phrase "dying...
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Mikhail Lermontov (category Poets from the Russian Empire)
writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest...
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William Wordsworth (redirect from The Cumberland Poet)
in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from...
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A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator...
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"The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes'...
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The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French...
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Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914–1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection...
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8th century in poetry (section Deaths of Arab poets)
Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman Li Bai (701–762), Chinese poet, one of the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" Cui Hao (704–754), Chinese poet especially...
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22 November 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of his death, writer C. S. Lewis was commemorated with a memorial floor stone. The poet Philip Larkin was commemorated...
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occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively...
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Alexander Pushkin (category Male poets from the Russian Empire)
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern...
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Sylvia Plath (redirect from Sylvia plath death)
American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and...
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The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister. The role...
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information...
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death mask is on display at the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia. One of the first real Ukrainian death masks was that of the poet Taras Shevchenko, taken by...
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Nicholas Hughes (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes, and the younger brother of artist and poet Frieda Hughes. He...
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published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742...
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Mihai Eminescu (category Romanian male poets)
poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the...
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Many of the states in the United States have established the post of poet laureate to which a prominent poet residing in the respective state is appointed...
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Kisna: The Warrior Poet is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language period romance film written, edited, produced and directed by Subhash Ghai and starring Vivek Oberoi...
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Frieda Hughes (category English women poets)
Hughes is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist and poet Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from...
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Muhammad Iqbal (redirect from The Poet of the East)
poet and politician. His poetry is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims...
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The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait...
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playwrights List of Russian-language writers Russian culture Russian poetry Russian literature Russian language Category:Russian poets Greene, Roland;...
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buried together properly. Cleopatra's death effectively ended the final war of the Roman Republic between the remaining triumvirs Octavian and Antony...
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"Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets...
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Aeschylus (redirect from Eschylus Father of Tragedy)
death of the poet Æschylus. An oracle, it is said, had predicted his death on that day by the fall of a house, upon which he took the precaution of trusting...
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"Sylvia’s Death" is a poem by American writer and poet Anne Sexton (1928–1974) written in 1963. "Sylvia's Death" was first seen within Sexton's short...
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William McGonagall (redirect from The worlds worst poet)
Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his...
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