1661 in poetry

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Works published

Great Britain

• Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"^[1]
• Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems^[1]
• John Bunyan, Profitable Meditations Fitted to Mans Different Condition, the author's first prison work and first published verse^[1]
• John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, Charles II of England was crowned April 23 this year^[1]
• John Evelyn, A Panegyric to Charles the Second^[1]
• Edmund Waller, A Poem on St James's Park^[1]
• George Wither, The Prisoners Plea^[1]

Other

• Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously^[2]

Births

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

• William Cleland (died 1689), Scottish poet and soldier
• Anne Finch (died 1720), countess of Winchilsea, English poet
• Samuel Garth (died 1719), English physician and poet
• Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (died 1707), Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō
• Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (died 1715), English poet and statesman
• John Tutchin (died 1707), radical Whig controversialist, gadfly English journalist and poet
• Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (died 1708), Swedish poet

Deaths

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

• Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (born 1594), French
• Antonio Enríquez Gómez (born 1601), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
• Barten Holyday (born 1593), English clergyman, author and poet
• María de Zayas (born 1590), Spanish poet and playwright

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes