1666 in poetry
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| ... 1656 . 1657 . 1658 . 1659 . 1660 . 1661 . 1662 ... 1663 1664 1665 -1666- 1667 1668 1669 ... 1670 . 1671 . 1672 . 1673 . 1674 . 1675 . 1676 ... In literature: 1663 1664 1665 -1666- 1667 1668 1669 |
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Events
- In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677[1]
Works published
- George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland, English Colonial American[2]
- Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (the first 64 lines had been published anonymously on a single sheet in 1665)[3]
- George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Mary Astell (died 1732), English feminist writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- October – James Shirley (born 1596), English poet and playwright
- Alexander Brome (born 1620), English
- Jeremias de Dekker (born 1610), Dutch
- Sir Richard Fanshawe (born 1608), English diplomat, translator, and poet
- James Howell (born 1594), English pamphleteer and poet
- Gysbert Japiks (born 1603), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
- Jean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576), French playwright and poet
- Łukasz Opaliński (born 1612), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
See also
Notes
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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