1648 in poetry

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year
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Events

June 9 - English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace begins his second imprisonment for opposition to Parliament.

Works published

Great Britain

Joseph Beaumont, Psyche; or, Loves Mysterie, In XX Canto's
Richard Corbet, Poetica Stromata; or, A Collection of Sundry Peices in Poetry, the second edition of Certain Elegant Poems 1647,
William Davenant, London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that City
Sir Richard Fanshawe, Il Pastor Fido the Faithfull Shepherd, entirely written by Fanshawe; intended as an addition to his translation of Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il Pastor Fido 1647
Robert Herrick, Hesperides; or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., in two parts, secular and religious, the later with its own title page, with the title His Noble Numbers; or, His Pious Pieces; includes "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; the book states it was published in 1647, but it was published this year
George Wither, writing under the pen name "Terrae-Filius", ''Prosopopoeia Britannica''

Other

Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh
Francisco de Quevedo, El Parnasso español, monte en dos cumbres, dividido con las nueve Musas castellanas, edited by Antonio Jose Gonzalez de Salas; Spain
Paul Scarron, Virgile travesti; France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February 1 - Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright
April 7 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet
November 12 - Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun, polymath, poet and playwright

Also:

Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet
Petter Dass, Norwegian poet

Deaths

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January 14 - Caspar Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle, Dutch humanist polymath, theologian, poet and historian
c. February 20 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet
May 26 - Vincent Voiture, French poet and writer
May 28 ' - William Percy, English poet and playwright
August 20 - Edward Herbert, Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
November 17 ' - Thomas Ford, English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet
Leon of Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena, rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and Hebrew-language poet
Syed Sultan, Bengali poet