1938 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• March 1 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil
• April 15 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
• April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt, English author and poet
• April 21 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal", and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" ) 70, Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, who wrote in Persian and Urdu, and praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
• June 26 – James Weldon Johnson African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems, and collections of folklore
• October 5 – Chieko Takamura (born 1886), Japanese (surname: Takamura)
• October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
• December 7 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.