1842 in poetry
overview of the events of 1842 in poetry
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Works published in English
United Kingdom
Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics, including "My Last Duchess", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"; the author's first collection of shorter poems (reprinted, with some revisions and omissions in Poems 1849; see also Bells and Pomegranates 1841, reprinted each year from 1843–1846)
Thomas Campbell, The Pilgrim of Glencoe, with Other Poems
Frederick William Faber, The Styrian Lake, and Other Poems
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, The Nursery Rhymes of England, anthology
Leigh Hunt, The Palfrey
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome, including "Horatius"
Robert Montgomery, Luther
Alfred Tennyson, Poems, including "Locksley Hall", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses", "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", "The Two Voices", "The Vision of Sin", "Godiva" and "The Lady of Shalott" (2nd version) (published May 14 in two volumes, with reprinted poems in Volume 1, and new poems in Volume 2)
Katharine Augusta Ware, The Power of the Passions and other Poems
William Wordsworth, Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, includes The Bordereers
United States
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 (17 poems), Edgar Allan Poe (three poems), and Charles Fenno Hoffman (45 poems), a friend of Griswold's The collection was dedicated to Washington Allston.
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