1642 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• May–June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster for defying Parliament, during which time he perhaps writes To Althea, from Prison[1]

Works published

• John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed
• Arthur Johnston, died 1641, Opera, Scottish poet writing in Latin
• Sir Francis Kynaston, Leoline and Sydanis[2]
• Henry More, Psychodia Platonica; or, A Platonicall Song of the Soul[2]
• Alexander Ross, Mel Heliconium; or, Poeticall Honey[2]
• John Taylor, Mad Fashions, Odd Fashions, All Out of Fashions; or, The Emblems of those Distracted Times[2]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Abdul-Qādir Bēdil (died 1720), Persian poet and Sufi
• Vincenzo da Filicaja (died 1707), Italian poet
• Ihara Saikaku (died 1693), Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose, ukiyo-zōshi
• Thomas Shadwell (died 1692), English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689
• Edward Taylor (died 1729), Colonial American poet, physician, and clergyman[3]

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• June 1 – Sir John Suckling (born 1609), English
• John Chalkhill (born 1594), English
• Francis Kynaston (born 1587), English courtier, poet and translator
• James Mabbe (born 1572), English scholar, poet and translator

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War

Notes

1. Wood, Anthony. Athenæ Oxonienses.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books