1654 in poetry
This article covers 1654 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
- Robert Aylet, Divine, and Moral Speculations in Metrical Numbers, Upon Various Subjects, including previously published verses along with "The Song of Songs" and "The Brides Ornaments", apparently published in this book for the first time
- John Playford, A Breefe Introduction to the Skills of Musick for Song & Violl, verse and musicThe Harmonie of the Muses; Or, The Gentlemans and Ladies Choisest Recreation, an anthology from nine contributors; includes several by John Donne, "Elegy XVII" and "Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed", as well as Donne's "A Valediction: forbidding Mourning", "Loves Diet", "The Prohibition" and "The Will", with other poems also attributed to "J.D.", "Dr. Don" or "Dr. Joh. Don"
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 20 - Michiel de Swaen, Dutch surgeon, rhetorician and poet
- January 22 - Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician
- November 27 - Friedrich von Canitz, German poet and diplomat
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 8 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer and poet writing verses in both French and Latin
- May - Germain Habert, French churchman and poet
- June 27 - Johannes Valentinus Andreae, German Rosicrucian
- November 30 - William Habington, English poet
- December 5 - Jean François Sarrazin, French satirist and poet
- Also:
- * Giacomo Badoaro, Venetian nobleman and poet
- * Alexander Ross, Scottish poet, author and controversialist