1660 in poetry

Events

• The return to power of Charles II of England, with a triumphant entrance into London on May 29, results in the publication of numerous panegyrics and similar verse by English poets praising the monarch. However, the anti-monarchist John Milton is forced into hiding as a warrant for his arrest is in force until the summer and his writings are burned.

Works published

• Elias Ashmole, Sol in Ascendente; or, The Glorious Appearance of Charles the Second, upon the Horizon of London, in her Horoscopicall Sign, Gemini, anonymous, on Charles II, who entered London on May 29 this year
• Charles Cotton, A Panegyrick to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
• Abraham Cowley:
  • Ode, Upon the Blessed Restoration and Returne of His Sacred Majestie, Charls, on Charles II, who entered London on May 29 of this year
  • writing under the pen name "Ezekiel Grebner", a purported grandson of Paul Grebner, The Visions and Prophecies Concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland of Ezekiel Grebner, published this year, although the book states "1661"; a royalist political satire, in prose and verse
• Sir William Davenant:
  • "A Panegyric to his Excellency the Lord General Monck", to George Monck
  • "Poem, Upon His Sacred Majesties Most Happy Return to His Dominions", on Charles II, who entered London on May 29 of this year
• Sir Robert Howard, Poems
• John Phillips, Montelion, 1660; or, The Proheticall Almanack, published under the pen name "Montelion, knight of the oracle, a well-wisher to the mathematicks", a verse satire on William Lilly's almanacs
• Robert Wild, Iter Boreale
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:
  • Epicedia Academiæ Oxoniensis, a collection of poems offering condolence with the Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, for the death of her daughter Mary, the Princess Royal; two poems in the collection have been attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: a Latin poem, "In Obitum Serenissimae Mariae Principis Arausionensis," and an English poem, "To Her Sacred Majesty, the Queen Mother, on the Death of Mary, Princess of Orange."
  • Editor, Britannia Rediviva Oxford: Excudebat A. & L. Lichfield, Acad. Typogr., anthology
• George Wither, Speculum Speculativum; or, A Considering-Glass

Births

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

• By May – Anne Killigrew (died 1685), English poet and painter

Deaths

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

• September 12 – Jacob Cats (born 1576), Dutch poet
• October 6 – Paul Scarron (born 1610), French poet, playwright and novelist
• date not known
  • Faqi Tayran, also spelled "Feqiyê Teyran", pen name of Mir Mihemed (born 1590), Kurdish
  • Sir Thomas Urquhart (born 1611), Scottish

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Lindsay, Alexander. "Cowley, Abraham".
3. Web page titled [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81497 "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)"]at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 11, 2009. 2009-05-02.