1640 in poetry
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Events
- Early? – Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. is published (posthumously) by John Benson in London, the first collection of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry, although incomplete and mangled.
- English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace, serving in the Bishops' Wars in Scotland, writes "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" (published 1649)
Works published
- Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin poetry of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature[1]
- Thomas Carew, Poems, including "Coelum Brittanicum" 1634[1]
- Richard Flecknoe, The Affections of a Pious Soule, unto our Savior-Christ, prose and poetry[1]
- Ben Jonson:
- Richard Mather and John Eliot, and Thomas Weld The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly known as the Bay Psalm Book, English Colonial American work[2]
- Francis Quarles, Enchyridion[1]
- Nathaniel Richards, The Tragedy of Messallina, the Roman Emperesse[1]
- John Tatham, The Fancies Theater[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- December 14 (probable date) – Aphra Behn, born Eaffrey Johnson (died 1689), English woman playwright and poet[1]
- Nozawa Bonchō 野沢 凡兆 (died 1714), Japanese haikai poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February/March – Richard Rowlands (born 1550), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
- March 22 – Thomas Carew (born 1595), English poet
- April 2
- Paul Fleming (born 1609), German poet and physician
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (born 1595), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
- April 28 (bur.) – William Alabaster (born 1567), English poet and playwright
- September 12 – William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, (born 1567), Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
- October 1 – Claudio Achillini, Italian polymath and poet (born 1574)
- Charles Aleyn, English poet
- Daniel Naborowski (born 1573), Polish Baroque poet
- Possible date – John Ford (born 1586), English playwright and poet
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Notes
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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