1842 in poetry

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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

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)^[1]
Thomas Campbell, The Pilgrim of Glencoe, with Other Poems^[1]
Frederick William Faber,k The Styrian Lake, and Other Poems^[1]
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, The Nursery Rhymes of England, anthology^[1]
Leigh Hunt, The Palfrey^[1]
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome,^[1] including "Horatius"
Robert Montgomery, Luther^[1]
Alfred Tennyson, Poems, including "Locksley Hall", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses", "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", "The Two Voices", "The Vision of Sin", and "Godiva" (published in two volumes, with reprinted poems in Volume 1, and new poems in Volume 2^[1]
William Wordsworth, Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, includes The Bordereers^[1]

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^[2]
Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Vigil of Faith and Other Poems, a popular book with four editions in three years^[2]
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^[2]
- Ballads and Other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus"
Rufus Wilmot Griswold:
- The Poets and Poetry of America, popular anthology that went into several reprints; with poems from over 80 authors,^[3] 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^[4] The collection was dedicated to Washington Allston.^[5] Philadelphia: Carey & Hart
- Gems from American Female Poets, anthology
Alfred Billings Street, The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems, descriptive verses^[2]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

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), Canadian
- Henry Duff Traill (died 1900, British poet, author and journalist

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

June 12 – Thomas Arnold (UK)
July 28 – Clemens Brentano, German
October 30 – Allan Cunningham (born 1784), Scottish poet and author
December 9 – Samuel Woodworth, (born 1785), American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and poet^[6]
date not known - Macdonald Clarke

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
^ Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001: 197. ISBN 081604161X. Sova, 197
^ Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992: 126. ISBN 0815410387
^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966: 279.
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009