1808 in poetry
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The preface to Milton, as it appeared in author and artist William Blake's own illuminated version
1842 in poetry
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1808 in poetry
…March 22 – Caroline Norton (died 1877), English society beauty, novelist, poet, pamphleteer and playwright March 25 – José de Espronceda (died 1842), Spanish May 22 – Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie (died 1855), French essayist, translator and Romantic poet…
William Wordsworth, 1842, by Benjamin Haydon
Frontispiece of Griswold's The Poets and Poetry of America, featuring images of popular poets including Richard Henry Dana Sr., William Cullen Bryant, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow