1648 in literature

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The year 1648 in literature involved some significant events.

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Richard Lovelace, Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.
René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.
During the siege of Colchester, the cannon, Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, inspiring the nursery rhyme.
Robert Boyle writes Seraphic Love, his first important work, which will not be published until 1660.
Ill-health forces Pierre Gassendi to give up lecturing at the Collège Royal.
Richard Flecknoe travels to Brazil.
Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, but Obadiah Walker loses his academic post.
Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
King Charles I, imprisoned in Windsor Castle, reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

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