1661 in poetry explained
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Works published
- Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"[1]
- Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems[1]
- John Bunyan, Profitable Meditations Fitted to Mans Different Condition, the author's first prison work and first published verse[1]
- John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, Charles II of England was crowned April 23 this year[1]
- John Evelyn, A Panegyric to Charles the Second[1]
- Edmund Waller, A Poem on St James's Park[1]
- George Wither, The Prisoners Plea[1]
Other
- Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously[2]
Births
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Deaths
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See also
Notes and References
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications