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Works published

• Richard Brome, perhaps the editor, Lachrymae Musarum: The Tears of the Muses, anonymous collection of elegies on the death of Henry, Lord Hastings; assumed to have been assembled by Brome ^[1]
• Richard Lovelace, Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c., to which is added Aramantha, A Pastoral., London: Tho. Harper (see also Lucasta: Posthume Poems 1659)
• John Ogilby, translator, The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, translation from the original Latin, "a respectable and often sumptuously printed work [...] which, until [John] Dryden's folio [of 1697], was not superseded", according to 20th century critic Mark Van Doren ^[2]
• Thomas Stanley, the elder, Europa. Cupid Crucified. Venus Vigils ^[1]
• George Wither, Carmen Eucharisticon ^[1]
• Elegies on the execution of King Charles I of England on January 30:
  • Henry King, A Groane at the Funerall of that Incomparable and Glorious Monarch, Charles the First ^[1]
  • Thomas Pierce, anonymously, Caroli τοῦ μακαρίτου Παλιγγενεσία, 1649
  • Monumentum Regale, a Tombe for Charles I, collection

Births

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

• April 16 – Jan Luyken (died 1712), Dutch
• September 26 – Katharyne Lescailje (died 1711), Dutch

Deaths

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

• June 20 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (born 1594), Dutch
• December 4 – William Drummond of Hawthornden (born 1585), Scottish
• Richard Crashaw, (born 1613), English poet, styled "the divine," one of the Metaphysical poets
• Ascanio Pio (born unknown), Italian dramatic poet
• Jean Sirmond (born 1589), French neo-Latin poet and man of letters
• Manuel de Faria e Sousa (born 1590), Portuguese historian and poet
• Giovanni Valentini (born 1582), Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso

See also

• Poetry portal

• 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
2. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 99, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")