1666 in poetry

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## Events

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* In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677[1]

## Works published

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* George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland, English Colonial American[2]
* Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (the first 64 lines had been published anonymously on a single sheet in 1665)[3]
* George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers[3]

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* November 12 - Mary Astell (died 1732), English feminist writer

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* February 12 - Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (born 1602), English nobleman, politician, and writer
* June 15 - Łukasz Opaliński (born 1612), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
* June 16 - Sir Richard Fanshawe (born 1608), English diplomat, translator and poet
* June 30 - Alexander Brome (born 1620), English
* October - James Shirley (born 1596), English poet and playwright
* November - Jeremias de Dekker (born 1610), Dutch
* November 3 (bur.) - James Howell (born 1594), English pamphleteer and poet
* Gysbert Japiks (born 1603), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
* Jean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576), French playwright and poet

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* Poetry portal

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* 17th century in literature
* Restoration literature

## Notes

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1. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602-1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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