1666 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1666 in poetry
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Events
- In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677[1]
Works published
- George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland, English Colonial American[2]
- Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (the first 64 lines had been published anonymously on a single sheet in 1665)[3]
- George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- November 12 – Mary Astell (died 1732), English feminist writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 12 – Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (born 1602), English nobleman, politician, and writer
- June 15 – Łukasz Opaliński (born 1612), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
- June 16 – Sir Richard Fanshawe (born 1608), English diplomat, translator and poet
- June 30 – Alexander Brome (born 1620), English
- October – James Shirley (born 1596), English poet and playwright
- November – Jeremias de Dekker (born 1610), Dutch
- November 3 (bur.) – James Howell (born 1594), English pamphleteer and poet
- Gysbert Japiks (born 1603), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
- Jean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576), French playwright and poet
See also
Notes
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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