1661 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1661 in poetry

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Events

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]

Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously^[2]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] 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

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] 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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 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

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