1850 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 20 – Adam Oehlenschlager (born 1779), Danish
  • January 20 – Philip Pendleton Cooke (born 1816), American lawyer and poet
  • April 7 – William Lisle Bowles (UK)
  • April 23 – William Wordsworth (UK)
  • May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American
  • May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
  • August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau, Australian
  • Also:
    • Manoah Bodman

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