Despondent Poets

[abu nuwas]

It is interesting, though it does not contradict the research, that, after Esenin died, there was a spate of deaths in the Russian poetry world, including Mayakovsky, and seemingly something similar in the US. It is suggested that Randall Jarrell's death 'loosened the grip on life' of Robert Lowell, and Berryman. There is also a suggestion, as with Esenin, that Jarrell did not intend to kill himself at all, though this interesting article in my favorite journal, concludes that he did.

http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1982/s...l-jarrell/

PS it is really pronounced 'Yesyenin'