1842 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published in English

Charles Timothy Brooks, translator, Songs and Ballads, translations of German poems
William Cullen Bryant, The Fountain and Other Poems, a collection of parts of a larger work, never to be completed; published in response to many requests for a longer, more ambitious work of poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Saadi"
Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Vigil of Faith and Other Poems, a popular book with four editions in three years
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
* Poems on Slavery, written in support of the abolitionist movement, dedicated to William Ellery Channing; the author donates the contents of the book to the New England Anti-Slavery Tract Society to republish and distribute
* Ballads and Other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus"
Alfred Billings Street, The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems, descriptive verses
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, editor:
* The Poets and Poetry of America, popular anthology that went into several reprints; with poems from over 80 authors, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Lydia Sigourney, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Fenno Hoffman, a friend of Griswold's The collection was dedicated to Washington Allston. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart
* Gems from American Female Poets, anthology

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 26 - François Coppée, French writer, le poète des humbles
February 3 - Sidney Lanier, American
February 4 - Arrigo Boito, Italian
February 25 - Karl May, German writer, principally of adventure novels
March 18 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French
June 24 - Ambrose Bierce, American poet and writer
July 11 - Henry Abbey, American poet, best known for his poem "What Do We Plant When We Plant A Tree?"
July 17 - William John Courthope, English poet and historian of poetry
August 14 - Henry Duff Traill, English literary journalist
October 1 - Charles Cros, French poet and inventor
Date not known - John Arthur Phillips, English-born Canadian

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

April - Nodira, Uzbek poet and stateswoman, executed
May 23 - José de Espronceda, Spanish
June 12 - Thomas Arnold, English, educator, historian and poet
July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German Romantic poet and novelist
October 30 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author
December 9 - Samuel Woodworth, American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist and poet
Date not known - Macdonald Clarke, American "Mad Poet"