1661 in poetry

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Works published

Great Britain

• 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

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

Births

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

• 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

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

• 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
• Approximate date
  • Antonio Enríquez Gómez (born c. 1601), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
  • María de Zayas (born 1590), Spanish poet and playwright

See also

• Poetry portal

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

Notes

1. 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