1652 in literature

Overview of the events of 1652 in literature

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Overview of the events of 1652 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1652.

## Events[edit]

* March/April – John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year.[1]
* unknown date – A translation by Saiyid Aidarus of the Arabic religious poem "Hamziya" is the earliest known written example of Swahili literature.[2]

## New books[edit]

### Prose[edit]

* Anonymous – Eliza's Babes, or the Virgin's Offering
* Elias Ashmole – Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.
* Nicholas Culpepper – The English Physitian, or, An astrologo-physical discourse on the vulgar herbs of this nation, being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick (later known as The Complete Herbal)
* Owen Feltham – Brief Character of the Low Countries
* Antonio Rocco – L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola (Alcibiades the schoolboy)
* Thomas Urquhart – The Jewel (Ekskybalauron): a vindication of the honor of Scotland
* Henry Vaughan – Mount of Olives
* Thomas Vaughan (philosopher) (Eugenius Philalethes) – The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R:C:
* Gerrard Winstanley – The Law of Freedom

### Drama[edit]

* Anonymous – The Bastard
* Richard Brome – A Jovial Crew
* Francis Goldsmith – Sophompaneas, or Joseph (a translation of Hugo Grotius's tragedy)
* Thomas Middleton – The Widow
* John Tatham – The Scots Figgaries
* Pedro Calderon de la Barca – La fiera, el rayo y la piedra
* Agustín Moreto
* San Franco de Siena
* El parecido en la corte
* Luis Velez de Guevara – Reinar después de morir
* François le Métel de Boisrobert – Les Trois Orontes

### Poetry[edit]

* Edward Benlowes – Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice
* Richard Crashaw – Deo Nostro Te Decet Hymnus
* Antonio Enríquez Gómez – Sansón Nazareno
* Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa – Poesías varias, heroicas, satíricas y amorosas

## Births[edit]

* March 2 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (died 1685)
* April 13 – Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer (died 1708)
* May – Jane Barker, English poet and dramatist (died 1732)
* Unknown date – Nahum Tate, Irish poet and dramatist (died 1715)

## Deaths[edit]

* February 28 – Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist writer (born 1604)
* April 12 – John Vicars, English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War (born 1582)
* May – Claude de L'Estoile, French playwright and poet (born 1602)
* May 5 – Mary (née Powell), English wife of John Milton (born 1625)
* June 25 – Abraham von Franckenberg, German mystic, poet, and hymn writer (born 1593)
* August 14 – Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer, proprietor of the House of Elzevir (born 1592)
* October – Arthur Wilson, English playwright, historian, and poet (born 1595)
* October 8 – John Greaves, English antiquary (born 1602)
* October 20 – Antonio Coello, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1611)
* November 29 – Francesco Angeloni, Italian historian, novelist, dramatist and collector (born 1587)
* December 2 – Christopher Elderfield, English theologian (born 1607)[3]
* December 23 – John Cotton, English-born American theologian and minister (born 1585)

## References[edit]

1. ^ David Masson (1877). The Life of John Milton: 1649-1654. Macmillan and Company. p. 427.
2. ^ African Literature Association. Meeting (2005). North-south Linkages and Connections in Continental and Diaspora African Literatures. Africa World Press. p. 308\. ISBN 978-1-59221-157-9.
3. ^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1910). Papers by command. HMSO. p. iii.