1640 in poetry

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## Events

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* 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 and with some male pronouns changed to female in the sonnets (here reissued for the first time since original publication).
* English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace, serving in the Bishops' Wars in Scotland, writes "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" (published 1649)

## Works published

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* 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:
* Art of Poetry, translated from the Latin of Horace; also contains Execration Against Vulcan; The Masque of the Gypsies and Epigrams to Severall Noble Personages in this Kingdome; posthumous edition[1]
* The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, the second folio; Volume 1 reprints Workes 1616[1]
* 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

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* 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

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* 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 (born 1574), Italian polymath and poet
* Charles Aleyn, English poet
* Daniel Naborowski (born 1573), Polish Baroque poet
* Walter Quin (born c. 1575), Irish-born English court poet and author writing in English, Latin, French and Italian

## See also

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* Poetry portal

* Poetry
* 17th century in poetry
* 17th century in literature

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602-1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

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