- 1842 in poetry
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Works published
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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
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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 journalistDeaths
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Thomas Arnold (UK)
* July 28 -Clemens Brentano (German)
* December 9 -Samuel Woodworth (US)Date unknown:
*Macdonald Clarke ee also
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