Overview of the events of 1661 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
Great Britain
- Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"
- Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems
- John Bunyan, Profitable Meditations Fitted to Mans Different Condition, the author's first prison work and first published verse
- John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, Charles II of England was crowned April 23 this year
- John Evelyn, A Panegyric to Charles the Second
- Edmund Waller, A Poem on St James's Park
- George Wither, The Prisoners Plea
Other
- Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April – Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, born Anne Kingsmill (died 1720), English poet
- April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (died 1715), English poet and statesman
- Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (died 1708), German-born Swedish poet and noble
- Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (died 1707), Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō
- Approximate date
- William Cleland (died 1689), Scottish poet and soldier
- Samuel Garth (died 1719), English physician and poet
- John Tutchin (died 1707), English radical Whig controversialist, gadfly journalist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 12 – August Buchner (born 1591), German poet and critic
- October 2 – Barten Holyday (born 1593), English clergyman, author and poet
- December 29 – Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (born 1594), French poet
- Approximate date
- Antonio Enríquez Gómez (born c. 1601), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
- María de Zayas (born 1590), Spanish poet and playwright
See also
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications