1640 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace, serving in the Bishops' Wars in Scotland, writes "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" (published 1649)

Works published

• Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according to the The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature^[1]
• Thomas Carew, Poems, including "Coelum Brittanicum" 1634^[1]
• Richard Flecknoe, The Affections of a Pious Soule, unto our Savior-Christ, prose and poetry^[1]
• Ben Jonson:
  • Art of Poetry, translated from the Latin of Horace; also contains Execration Against Vulcan; The Masque of the Gypsies and Epigrams to Severall Noble Personages in this Kingdome; posthumous edition^[1]
  • The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, the second folio; Volume 1 reprints Workes 1616^[1]
• Richard Mather and John Eliot, and Thomas Weld The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly known as the Bay Psalm Book, English Colonial American work^[2]
• Francis Quarles, Enchyridion^[1]
• Nathaniel Richards, The Tragedy of Messallina, the Roman Emperesse^[1]
• John Tatham, The Fancies Theater^[1]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Aphra Behn (died 1689), English woman playwright and poet^[1]
• Nozawa Bonchō 野沢 凡兆 (died 1714), Japanese haikai poet
• William Wycherley (died 1716), English playwright and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, (born 1567), Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
• Thomas Carew (born 1595), English poet
• Robert Chester (born 1566), English
• John Day (born 1574), English poet and playwright
• Paul Fleming (born 1609), German
• John Ford (born 1586), English playwright and poet
• Daniel Naborowski (born 1573), Polish
• Richard Rowlands (born 1550), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
• Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (born 1595), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

Notes