1659 in literature

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The year 1659 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

January 27 - Andrew Marvell becomes a member of Parliament, in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.

Richard Baxter - The Holy Commonwealth
Méric Casaubon - A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
Thomas Hobbes - De Homine
Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium
Ninon de l'Enclos - La coquette vengée ("The Flirt Avenged")
Richard Lovelace - Lucasta (posthumous)
Péter Révay - De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
Anna Maria van Schurman - The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English translation of the 1638 Latin original)
Jeremy Taylor - Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship

Anonymous - The London Chanticleers
Richard Brome - Five New Plays, a collection that included The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
John Day & Henry Chettle - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
Richard Flecknoe - The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
Walter Montague - The Shepherd's Paradise
James Shirley - The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses and Honoria and Mammon

March - Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (died 1738)
March 25 - John Asgill, pamphleteer (died 1738)
March 26 - William Wollaston, philosopher (died 1724)
April 29 - Sophia Elisabet Brenner, poet, writer (died 1730)
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- Thomas Creech, translator (died 1700)
- Humphrey Hody, theologian (died 1707)
- Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet (died 1708)

January 7 - Laurenz Forer, Jesuit writer (born 1580)
January 31 - János Apáczai Csere, linguist, mathematician and encyclopaedist (born 1625)
February 4 - Francis Osborne, essayist (born 1593)
April 15 - Simon Dach, poet (born 1605)
June 3 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer (born 1619)
October 27 - Giovanni Francesco Busenello, poet and librettist (born 1598)

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