1646 in poetry

Events

• May 6 - American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish, 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
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
• Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes
• John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin
• 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 ; 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
• **Another on the Same
• **L'Allegro
• **Il Penseroso
• **Sonnets 1-10
• **Arcades
• **Lycidas
• **A Mask

Births

• February 4 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German statesman and poet
• March 19 - Michael Kongehl, German baroque poet
• Pan Lei, Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
• Benedetto Menzini, Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet

Deaths

• December 28 - François Maynard, French poet