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1638 poetry literature
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Events
May - English poet John Milton sets out for a tour of the European continent. He spends the summer in Florence.The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography Barbara K. Lewalski Barbara Kiefer Lewalski Oxford Blackwell Revised 2003 9780631176657
Works published
Great Britain
Henry Adamson, Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, Edinburgh, noted for giving a general description of Perth in the 17th century; published with the encouragement of Adamson's friend, William Drummond
Charles Aleyn, The History of Henry the SeventhCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Richard Brathwaite, writing under the pen name "Corymboeus", Barnabees Journall, under the Names of Mirtilus & Faustulus Shadowed, Latin and English verse on facing pages
Robert Chamberlain, Nocturnall Lucubrations; or, Meditations Divine and Morall
William Davenant, Madagascar; with Other Poems
Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, by various authors; a collection of elegies dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a college friend of John Milton's at Cambridge who had been drowned in August 1637 when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales; including Milton's "Lycidas"
Thomas Nabbes, The Springs of Glorie, verse drama
Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man
Thomas Randolph, Poems with the Muses Looking-lasse: and Amyntas
Other
Friedrich von Logau, Erstes Hundert Teutscher Reimen-Sprüche, epigrams, Germanyhttp://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblinfo/brblguide_german.html German Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 2013-12-04
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (died 1694), French poet
January 24 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (died 1706), English poet and courtier
February 15 – Zeb-un-Nissa (Makhfi) (died 1702), Persian poet and Mughal princess
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 24 – Charles Fitzgeoffrey (born 1576), English poet and clergyman
February 25 – Sir Robert Aytoun (born 1570), Scottish poet
June 25 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán (born 1602), Spanish priest, dramatist, poet and novelist
August 27 – John Hoskins (born 1566), English poet, classicist, judge and politician
December 8 – Ivan Gundulić (born 1589), Croatian Baroque poet
c. December? – John Day (born 1574), English playwright and poet
Daulat Qazi (born 1600), Bengali poet
See also
Poetry
Poetry
17th century in poetry
17th century in literature
Notes
Category:17th-century poetry
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