1659 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- January 27 - English poet Andrew Marvell is elected member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
- August - William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising.
Works published
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- William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida: A heroick poem
- John Cleveland, J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems, orations, epistles , prose and poetry
- John Dryden, Edmund Waller, and Thomas Sprat, The Poems Upon the Death of His Late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- James Harrington, translator, Virgil's Aeneis: The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Books, translation from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid
- Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Most Incomparable K. Charls the I, finished by March 11, 1649 but not printed until this year
- Richard Lovelace, Lucasta: Posthume poems
- Thomas Sprat, The Plague of Athens, which Hapned in the Second Year of the Peloponnesian Warra
- Sir John Suckling, The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling, poetry and prose; published posthumously
Other
- Nicolaes Borremans et al. - De Bloemkrans van verscheidene gedichten door eenige liefhebbers der poezy byeenverzameld
- Hallgrímur Pétursson - Passíusálmar
- Jacob Steendam, Complaint of New Amsterdam in New Netherland, Dutch, Colonial American
- René Rapin, Eclogæ Sacræ, Paris; Latin-language poem written in France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March - Margrethe Lasson, Danish poet and novelist
- April 29 - Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
- date not known
- * Thomas Creech, English translator and scholar
- * Daniel Defoe,, English author, writer, journalist, spy and poet, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He is interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where his grave can still be visited.
- * Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 11 - Guillaume Colletet, French
- April 15 - Simon Dach, Prussian German lyrical poet and hymn writer
- Akho, Indian poet, Vedantist and radical
- Richard Johnson, English romance writer, playwright, and poet
- Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer
- Francisco de Rioja, Spanish