Thursday, April 22, 2004
Poets 'die younger' than authors
"Poets die younger than novelists, playwrights or other writers, a new study in the US suggests.
It may be because poets are tortured or self-destructive, or achieve notoriety younger, James Kaufman of California State University, San Bernardino, said.
Dr Kaufman studied 1,987 dead writers from all over the world over the past centuries, and found poets died 'significantly younger'.
On average, a poet had a life-expectancy of only 62, he said.
It compared to playwrights' average age 63 years, novelists' 66 years and non-fiction writers' 68 years. "
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