This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1642.
Events
May – The 35-year-old John Milton marries the teenage Mary Powell. A few weeks later she leaves him in London and returns to her family in Oxfordshire.[1]
John Denham – Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey
^Muḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N. (2009). A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
^Anthony a Wood (1967). Athen Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. B. Franklin. p. 1620.