April 29

In literary history

• 1852Peter Roget published his Thesaurus at seventy-three, after keeping the private word-list as a consolation for decades of depression. Every writer who has reached for a synonym is drawing, without knowing it, on his grief.

Writers born on April 29

• C.P. Cavafy (1863)

The Daily Canon for April 29

Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy (1911).