1842 in poetry
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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
1808 in poetry
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1842 in poetry
…April – Nodira (born 1792), Uzbek poet and stateswoman, executed May 23 – José de Espronceda (born 1808), Spanish June 12 – Thomas Arnold (born 1795), English, educator, historian and poet…
The preface to Milton, as it appeared in author and artist William Blake's own illuminated version