1645 in poetry

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

Works published

Great Britain

• Francis Quarles, Solomons Recantatiion, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased^[1]
• Sir Robert Stapylton, translator, Erotopagnion, translated from the original Latin of the Musaeus^[1]
• Edmund Waller, Poems^[1]
• George Wither, Vox Pacifica: A Voice Tending to the Pacification of God's Wrath^[1]

Other

• Adrián de Alesio, El Angélico ("The Angel"), dedicated to Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Sheikh Muhammad, Yoga-samgrama

Works incorrectly dated this year

• John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin, published 1646, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, notwithstanding the book's title page^[1]

Births

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

• Juan del Valle y Caviedes (died 1697), Latin American poet and author

Deaths

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

• July 7 — Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (born 1569), German officer and poet
• July 13 — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
• August 28 — Hugo Grotius (born 1583), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright and poet
• August 31 — Francesco Bracciolini (born 1566), Italian
• September 8 — Francisco de Quevedo (born 1580), Spanish nobleman, politician and Golden Age poet
• William Browne (born 1590), English pastoral poet
• Emilia Lanier, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer" (born 1569), English
• Feng Menglong (born 1574), Chinese writer and poet

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

Notes