1649 in poetry
This article covers 1649 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
- Richard Brome, perhaps the editor, Lachrymae Musarum: The Tears of the Muses, anonymous collection of elegies on the death of Henry, Lord Hastings; assumed to have been assembled by Brome
- Richard Lovelace, Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c., to which is added Aramantha, A Pastoral., London: Tho. Harper
- John Ogilby, translator, The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, translation from the original Latin, "a respectable and often sumptuously printed work which, until Dryden's folio, was not superseded", according to 20th century critic Mark Van Doren
- Thomas Stanley, the elder, Europa. Cupid Crucified. Venus Vigils
- George Wither, Carmen Eucharisticon
- Elegies on the execution of King Charles I of England on January 30:
- * Henry King, A Groane at the Funerall of that Incomparable and Glorious Monarch, Charles the First
- * Thomas Pierce, anonymously, Caroli τοῦ μακαρίτου Παλιγγενεσία, 1649
- * Monumentum Regale, a Tombe for Charles I, collection
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- June 20 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch
- December 4 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish
- Richard Crashaw,, English poet, styled "the divine," one of the Metaphysical poets
- Ascanio Pio, Italian dramatic poet
- Jean Sirmond, French neo-Latin poet and man of letters
- Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet
- Giovanni Valentini, Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso