1656 in poetry
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Events[edit]
- This year in England, John Phillips, a nephew of John Milton, is summoned before the privy council for his share in a book of licentious poems, Sportive Wit, suppressed by the authorities but almost immediately replaced by a similar collection, Wit and Drollery.
- Hallgrímur Pétursson begins work on his Passion Hymns
Works published[edit]
- Margaret Cavendish, Lady Newcastle, Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, fiction, poetry and prose[1]
- Abraham Cowley:
- Miscellanies, including "On the Death of Mr. Crashaw"
- Poems[1]
- Pindaric Odes[2]
- Sir John Denham, translator, The Destruction of Troy, published anonymously, partial translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Book 2[1]
- William Davenant, Wit and Drollery: Jovial Poems
- William Drummond, Poems[1]
- John Evelyn, translator, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus, translation of the Latin of Lucretius' De rerum natura, with both English and Latin; including commendatory poems by Sir Richard Brown, Edmund Waller and Christopher Wase (in Latin);[1] this work was the first attempt to translate the work into English; Evelyn translated only the first book after realizing that he didn't have the ability to write a translation, as he put it, "to equal the elegancy of the original", although some of his friends warned him of the danger of the atheistic work to his morals, spirituality and reputation[3]
- Richard Flecknoe, The Diarium, or Journall, anonymously published[1]
- Mary Oxlie, authored a commendatory poem of fifty-two lines, To William Drummond of Hawthornden
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Lady Mary Chudleigh (died 1710), English poet and essayist
- Henry Hall (died 1707), English poet and composer
Deaths[edit]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Joseph Hall (born 1574), English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
- Johan van Heemskerk (born 1597), Dutch poet
- Johann Klaj (born 1616), German poet
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 193, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
- ^ Dunlop, John Colin, History of Roman Literature, From Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age, p 575, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823, retrieved via Google Books, May 31, 2009