1646 in poetry

Events

• May 6 – American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day North Andover), Massachusetts.
• English clergyman, poet and dramatist Jasper Mayne is made a Doctor of Divinity.

Works published

• Guillaume Colletet, Le Banquet des Poètes
• Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses (expanded edition 1648)
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
• Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes
• John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (see below)
• James Shirley, Poems
• Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, works, including letters, poems and plays
• Henry Vaughan, Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished
• George Wither, Opobalsamum Anglicanum

Milton's ''Poems''

• John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times; published this year, although the book states 1645; the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems:
  • On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
  • A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
  • Psalm 136
  • The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation; linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision
  • On Time
  • Upon the Circumcision
  • At A Solemn Musick
  • An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
  • Song on May Morning
  • On Shakespeare
  • On the University Carrier [Hobson's Epitaph]
  • Another on the Same
  • L'Allegro
  • Il Penseroso
  • Sonnets 1-10
  • Arcades
  • Lycidas
  • A Mask [Comus]

Births

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

• February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699), German statesman and poet
• March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died 1710), German baroque poet
• Pan Lei (died 1708), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
• Benedetto Menzini (died 1704), Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet

Deaths

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• December 28 – François Maynard (born 1582), French poet

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6