1650 in poetry

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Events

Works published

• Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia^[1]
• Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America American poet published this volume in London; full title: "The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, or Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, Wherein especially is Contained a Complete Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year, together with an exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies, viz., The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman, Also a Dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasand and serious Poems, By a Gentlewoman in those parts"; includes "In Praise of Mistress Bradstreet", a poem by Nathaniel Ward;^[2] the first verse collection written in the Western Hemisphere by a European and one of the best-selling volumes in 17th century London;^[3] the book was republished in 1678 with significant additions, six years after her death^[2]
• William Davenant, A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem, also known simply as Gondibert, first published this year unfinished, then published again in 1651 in its final form (second edition in 1653 with additional poems written by the author's friends)
• Robert Heath, Clarastella: Together with poems occasional, elegies, epigrams, satyrs^[1]
• Andrew Marvell, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
• John Tatham, Ostella; or, The Faction of Love and Beauty Reconcil'd^[1]
• Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans; or, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (see also Silex Scintillans 1655)^[1]
• Thomas Vaughan writing under the pen name "Eugenius Philalethes", Anthroposophia Theomagica; or, A Discourse of the Nature of Man and his State After Death^[1]

Births

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

• Juana Inés de la Cruz some biographers record her birth year as 1648 (died 1695), self-taught Novohispana scholar, nun, poet, and writer

Deaths

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• Phineas Fletcher (born 1582), English
• James Graham (born 1612), 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Montrose (Scotland) and poet
• Martin Peerson (born 1573), English composer, organist and virginalist who wrote hymns, madrigals and other sacred and secular music
• Jean Rotrou (born 1609), French poet and tragedian
• Tukaram (born 1608), Sant (Saint) and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement

See also

• 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

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trent, William P. and Wells, Benjamin W., Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Transplanting of Culture 1607-1650, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903 edition, pp 269- 271
3. ↑ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009