Deaths of the Authors
This sequence is very much provisional, with a goodly number of incomplete entries awaiting in the wings and yet others to be fully fashioned. Suggestions for further entries will be very much appreciated, indeed, new entries themselves, with full acknowledgement offered; but subject to the understanding that editorial authority must prevail. Additions to and corrections of existing entries will be gratefully accepted, but facts should not always be permitted to challenge too brutally the exquisite webs of poetic fancy, whatever the spider within.
Classical
c.475 B.C. Heraclitus
456 B.C. Aeschylus
65 A.D. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
66 A.D. Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Renaissance
1535 A.D. Thomas More
1586 A.D. Chidiock Titchborne
1586 A.D. Sir Philip Sidney
1592 A.D. Robert Greene
1593 A.D. Christopher Marlowe
1597 A.D. William Hunnis
1626 A.D. Francis Bacon
17th & 18th Centuries
1682 A.D. John Pontius Cowbellow
1700 A.D. John Dryden
1703 A.D. Susanna Mountford
1715 A.D. William Wycherley
19th Century
1814 A.D. Joanna Southcott
1817 A.D. Jane Austen
1822 A.D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
1832 A.D. Jeremy Bentham
1870 A.D. Charles Dickens
1870 A.D. Lautréamont
1893 A.D. Guy de Maupassant
Modernist
1900 A.D. Oscar Wilde
1902 A.D. Émile Zola
1904 A.D. Anton Chekhov
1909 A.D. John Millington Synge
1909 A.D. Algernon Swinburne
1928 A.D. Thomas Hardy
1933 A.D. George Moore
1938 A.D. Ödön von Horváth
1941 A.D. James Augusta Joyce