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:
- April â Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, born Anne Kingsmill (died 1720), English poet
- April 16 â Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (died 1715), English poet and statesman
- Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (died 1708), German-born Swedish poet and noble
- Takarai Kikaku å®äºå ¶è§, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (died 1707), Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo BashÅ
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- William Cleland (died 1689), Scottish poet and soldier
- Samuel Garth (died 1719), English physician and poet
- John Tutchin (died 1707), English radical Whig controversialist, gadfly journalist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 12 â August Buchner (born 1591), German poet and critic
- October 2 â Barten Holyday (born 1593), English clergyman, author and poet
- December 29 â Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (born 1594), French poet
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- Antonio EnrÃquez Gómez (born c. 1601), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
- MarÃa de Zayas (born 1590), Spanish poet and playwright
