1666 in poetry

Events

• 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

Works published

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

Births

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

• November 12 – Mary Astell (died 1732), English feminist writer

Deaths

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

• 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

Notes

References

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