1658 in literature

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The year 1658 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Molière arrives in Paris to act at the Louvre.
Edward Phillips continues the Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James (originally by Richard Baker) to this date.

Sir Thomas Browne - The Garden of Cyrus
- - Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
John Gadbury - Genethlialogia, or the Doctrine of Nativities
Pierre Gassendi - Syntagma philosophicum (published posthumously)
Christiaan Huygens - Horologium
Edward Phillips - Mysteries of Love and Eloquence
- - A New World in Words, or a General Dictionary
Giambattista della Porta - Natural Magic

William Chamberlaine - Love's Victory
Sir Aston Cockayne - The Obstinate Lady & Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince in one volume
Sir William Davenant - The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru
Thomas Dekker, John Ford, & William Rowley - The Witch of Edmonton
Sir William Lower - The Amorous Fantasm (adapted from Philippe Quinault's Fantome Amoreux)
- - The Enchanted Lovers
Thomas May - The Old Couple
Jasper Mayne - The City Match
- - The Amorous War
Thomas Meriton - Love and War
- - The Wandering Lover
Gilbert Swinhoe - Unhappy Fair Irene
Leonard Willan - Orgula, or the Fatal Error