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1665 in poetry

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Events

  • Jacques Testu de Belval elected to the Académie française
  • Great Britain

  • Charles Cotton, Scarronides; or, Virgile Travestie, published anonymously (see also Scarronides 1664, 1667)
  • Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Occasional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbury and Castle-Island
  • Andrew Marvell, The Character of Holland, published anonymously
  • John Phillips, translator, Typhon; or, The Gyants War with the Gods: A mock poem, translated from Paul Scarron
  • George Wither:
  • Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer
  • Three Private Meditations, poetry and prose
  • Other

  • August Buchner (died 1661), Hauptwerk, Anleitung zur deutschen Poeterei ("Instructions for German poetry"), German poet and critic, published in Wittenberg
  • Daniel Levi de Barrios, also known as Miguel de Barrios, Flor de Apolo, Jewish Spanish poet living in the Netherlands, published in Brussels
  • René Rapin, Hortorum libri IV, Paris; Latin-language poem written in France (translated into English in 1673 and 1706)
  • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • April 13 - Guillaume Massieu (died 1722), French churchman, translator and poet
  • December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie (died 1746), Scottish songwriter
  • Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; died 1732), English Colonial American poet
  • William Hamilton (died 1751), Scottish poet
  • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • March 7 - Guillaume Bautru (born 1588), French satirical poet and a founder member of the Académie française
  • April 15 - Lorenzo Lippi (born 1606), Italian painter and poet
  • November 17 - John Earle (born 1601), English bishop, writer and poet
  • Samuel Coster (born 1579), Dutch playwright and poet
  • References

    1665 in poetry Wikipedia