1646 in poetry

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Events

• May 6 – American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day North Andover), Massachusetts.
• English clergyman, poet and dramatist Jasper Mayne is made a Doctor of Divinity.

Works published

• Guillaume Colletet, Le Banquet des Poètes
• Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses (expanded edition 1648)[1]
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
• Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes[1]
• John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (see below)
• James Shirley, Poems[1]
• Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, works, including letters, poems and plays[1]
• Henry Vaughan, Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished[1]
• George Wither, Opobalsamum Anglicanum[1]

Milton's Poems

Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispice depicting Milton surrounded by four muses

• John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times; published this year, although the book states 1645;[1] the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems:
  • • On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
    • A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
    • Psalm 136
    • The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation; linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision
    • On Time
    • Upon the Circumcision
    • At A Solemn Musick
    • An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
    • Song on May Morning
    • On Shakespeare
    • On the University Carrier [Hobson's Epitaph]
    • Another on the Same
    • L'Allegro
    • Il Penseroso
    • Sonnets 1-10
    • Arcades
    • Lycidas
    • A Mask [Comus]

Births

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

• February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699), German statesman and poet
• March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died 1710), German baroque poet
• Pan Lei (died 1708), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
• Benedetto Menzini (died 1704), Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet

Deaths

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

• December 28 – François Maynard (born 1582), French poet

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. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6