On this day in literature
November 28
In literary history
- 1694Matsuo Bashō died of a stomach illness among his disciples, having refused to compose a formal death poem. The verse they took for his farewell was written on the road a few days earlier: falling sick on a journey, my dream goes wandering on a withered field.
Writers born on November 28
- William Blake (1757),
- Friedrich Engels (1820),
- Stefan Zweig (1881),
- Frances A. Yates (1899),
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908)