1647 in poetry

Works published

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• Richard Corbet, Certain Elegant Poems, edited by John Donne the younger .
• Abraham Cowley, The Mistresse; or, Several Copies of Love-Verses.
• Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, translator, Il Pastor Fido, the Faithfull Shepherd anonymously published; from a work by Battista Guarini.
• John Hall of Durham, Poems.
• Christopher Harvey, translator, Schola Cordis in 47 Emblems, published anonymously, adapted from Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis 1629; later editions state that Francis Quarles is the author.
• Henry More, Philosophical Poems.
• Francis Quarles, Hosanna; or, Divine Poems on the Passion of Christ.
• Sir Robert Stapylton, Juvenal's Sixteen Satyres; or, A Survey of the Manners and Actions of Mankind.
• George Wither:
• *Amygdala Britannica, Almonds for Parrot's, published anonymously.
• * ''Carmen Expostulatorium; or, A Timely Expostulation.''

Other languages

• François Vavasseur, Antonius Godellus, episcopus Grassensis, a satire on Antoine Godeau; France
• Johan van Heemskerk, Batavische Arcadia, written 1637; Netherlands

Works incorrectly dated this year

• Robert Herrick, Hesperides; or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., the book states it was published this year, but it was published in 1648, according to ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature''

Births

• Nicholas Noyes, English Colonial American clergyman, one of those presiding over the Salem witch trials and a poet.
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.

Deaths

• May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian, poet and playwright.
• Moses Belmonte, polyglot poet and translator.
• Johann Heermann, German poet and hymn writer.
• Claude de Malleville, French poet.
• Francis Meres, English churchman, author, critic and poet.
• Wang Wei, Chinese.