- 1839 in poetry
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William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree byOxford University .Works
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Edgar Allan Poe 's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Hyperion; Voices of the Night"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley , "Poetical Words of Percy Bysshe Shelley" in four volumes is published from January to May, edited byMary Shelley , with her preface and notes, and dedicated to the Shelleys' son, Percy Florence Shelley (London: Edward Moxon; posthumous)Births
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James Ryder Randall (US)
* April 18 -Henry Kendall , Australian (d 1882)
* June 21 -Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis , Brazilian (d 1909)
* August 4 -Walter Pater (UK)
* August 25 -Bret Harte (d 1902)
* December 30 -John Todhunter (Irish)Deaths
* May 21 -
José María Heredia y Campuzano , Cuban poet
* July 15 -Winthrop Mackworth Praed (UK)Date unknown:
*Thomas Haynes Bayley ee also
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Poetry
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