Friday, March 5, 2010

honestly, i wouldve thought this list was longer

poets who committed suicide:


Francis Adams
José María Arguedas
May Ayim
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
John Berryman
Konstantin Biebl
Jens Bjørneboe
Barcroft Boake
Tadeusz Borowski
Karin Boye
Bozhidar
Paul Celan
Nicolas Chamfort
Thomas Chatterton
Hart Crane
John Davidson
Deng Tuo
Deborah Digges
Thomas Disch
Tove Ditlevsen
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Yulia Drunina
Stephen Duck
Jean-Pierre Duprey
Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)
John Gould Fletcher
André Frédérique
Misao Fujimura
Francesco Gaeta
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Stephen Haggard
Hai Zi
Beatrice Hastings
Paolo Iashvili
Kostas Karyotakis
Kitamura Tokoku
Napoleon Lapathiotis
Jan Lechoń
Vachel Lindsay
Gherasim Luca
Lucan
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Branko Miljković
Yukio Mishima
Henry Neele
Gérard de Nerval
Piet Paaltjens
Cesare Pavese
Alejandra Pizarnik
Sylvia Plath
Qu Yuan
Anne Sexton
Alfonsina Storni
Galaktion Tabidze
Robert Tannahill
Sara Teasdale
Jaime Torres Bodet
Georg Trakl
Marina Tsvetaeva
Allen Upward
Jacques Vaché
Johannes Vares
Reetika Vazirani
Juhan Viiding
Ilarie Voronca
Rachel Wetzsteon
Peyo Yavorov
Sergei Yesenin



oh, and sorry if this is too depressing or something.

2 comments:

  1. That is surprisingly short. Of course, there are the tons of poets who committed suicide because their poetry was never discovered who naturally didn't make the list.

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  2. yeah, i guess its not really so much a "list of poets who committed suicide" so much as itsa list of "poets who committed suicide who have wikipedia pages".

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