1842 in poetry
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Events

William Wordsworth, 1842, by Benjamin Haydon

Works published

• Robert Browning's Dramatic Lyrics, including "My Last Duchess" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery
• Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, including "Horatius"
• Alfred Tennyson's Poems, including "Locksley Hall," "Morte d'Arthur," and "Ulysses"
• William Wordsworth's Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years

Births

• February 3 — Sidney Lanier, American poet
• February 4 — Arrigo Boito (died 1918), (Italian)
• February 25 — Karl May (died 1912), German poet
• March 18 — Stéphane Mallarmé, French
• June 24 — Ambrose Bierce, American poet and writer
• October 1 — Charles Cros, French poet
• date not known:
  • Henry Abbey (died 1911), American poet, best known for his poem "What Do We Plant When We Plant A Tree?"
  • William John Courthorpe
  • John Arthur Phillips (poet) (Canada)
  • Henry Duff Traill (died 1900, British poet, author and journalist

Deaths

• June 12 - Thomas Arnold (UK)
• July 28 - Clemens Brentano (German)
• December 9 - Samuel Woodworth (US)

Date unknown:

• Macdonald Clarke

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry