1661 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1661 in poetry

List of years in poetry

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## Events

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## Works published

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### Great Britain

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* Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"[1]
* Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems[1]
* John Bunyan, Profitable Meditations Fitted to Mans Different Condition, the author's first prison work and first published verse[1]
* John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, Charles II of England was crowned April 23 this year[1]
* John Evelyn, A Panegyric to Charles the Second[1]
* Edmund Waller, A Poem on St James's Park[1]
* George Wither, The Prisoners Plea[1]

### Other

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* Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously[2]

## Births

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* April - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, born Anne Kingsmill (died 1720), English poet
* April 16 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (died 1715), English poet and statesman
* Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (died 1708), German-born Swedish poet and noble
* Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (died 1707), Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō
* Approximate date
* William Cleland (died 1689), Scottish poet and soldier
* Samuel Garth (died 1719), English physician and poet
* John Tutchin (died 1707), English radical Whig controversialist, gadfly journalist and poet

## Deaths

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* February 12 - August Buchner (born 1591), German poet and critic
* October 2 - Barten Holyday (born 1593), English clergyman, author and poet
* December 29 - Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (born 1594), French poet
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* Antonio Enríquez Gómez (born c. 1601), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
* María de Zayas (born 1590), Spanish poet and playwright

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

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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