1646 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1646 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1646 in poetry
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Events
- May 6 – American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day North Andover), Massachusetts.
- English clergyman, poet and dramatist Jasper Mayne is made a Doctor of Divinity.
Works published
- Guillaume Colletet, Le Banquet des Poètes
- Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses (expanded edition 1648)[1]
- Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
- Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes[1]
- John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (see below)
- James Shirley, Poems[1]
- Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, works, including letters, poems and plays[1]
- Henry Vaughan, Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished[1]
- George Wither, Opobalsamum Anglicanum[1]
Milton's Poems
- John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times; published this year, although the book states 1645;[1] the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems:
- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
- A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
- Psalm 136
- The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation; linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision
- On Time
- Upon the Circumcision
- At A Solemn Musick
- An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
- Song on May Morning
- On Shakespeare
- On the University Carrier [Hobson's Epitaph]
- Another on the Same
- L'Allegro
- Il Penseroso
- Sonnets 1-10
- Arcades
- Lycidas
- A Mask [Comus]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699), German statesman and poet
- March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died 1710), German baroque poet
- Pan Lei (died 1708), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
- Benedetto Menzini (died 1704), Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- December 28 – François Maynard (born 1582), French poet
See also
Poetry portal
- Poetry
- 17th century in poetry
- 17th century in literature
- Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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