1641 in poetry
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Events
- Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented Guirlande de Julie, a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year (although the manuscript was not published in full until 1729 in poetry); five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other authors were Georges de Scudéry, Germain Habert, Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Valentin Conrart, Chapelain, Racan, Tallemant des Réaux, Antoine Godeau, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and Simon Arnauld de Pomponne; France
Works published
Great Britain
- Thomas Beedome, Poems Divine, and Humane[1]
- John Day, The Parliament of Bees, verse drama, first known edition, published posthumously[2]
- Martin Parker, The Poet's Blind Mans Bough; or, Have Among You My Blind Harpers[1]
- Sir Thomas Urquhart, Epigrams: Divine and Moral[1]
- George Wither, Haleluiah; or, Britans [sic] Second Remembrancer (see also Britains Remembrancer 1628)[1]
Other
- Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, Les Avis et presents, including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse; second revision (original version, Ombre 1626; revised and retitled, 1634), France[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 4 â Jerolim Kavanjin (died 1714), Croatian poet
- April 8 (bapt.) â William Wycherley (died 1716), English playwright and poet
- June 15 â Bernard de la Monnoye (died 1728), French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 11 â Juan de Jáuregui (born 1583), Spanish poet, scholar and painter
- August 16 â Thomas Heywood (born sometime early 1570s), English playwright, actor, poet and author
- August â Sir William Vaughan (born 1575), Welsh writer, poet and colonial investor
- Francesca Caccini (born 1587), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
- Arthur Johnston (born c. 1579), Scottish poet and physician
See also
- Poetry
- 17th century in poetry
- 17th century in literature
- Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War