1666 in poetry

• In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677^[1]

• George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland, English Colonial American^[2]
• Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (the first 64 lines had been published anonymously on a single sheet in 1665)^[3]
• George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers^[3]

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

• November 12 – Mary Astell (died 1732), English feminist writer

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

• February 12 – Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (born 1602), English nobleman, politician, and writer
• June 15 – Łukasz Opaliński (born 1612), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
• June 16 – Sir Richard Fanshawe (born 1608), English diplomat, translator and poet
• June 30 – Alexander Brome (born 1620), English
• October – James Shirley (born 1596), English poet and playwright
• November – Jeremias de Dekker (born 1610), Dutch
• November 3 (bur.) – James Howell (born 1594), English pamphleteer and poet
• Gysbert Japiks (born 1603), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576), French playwright and poet

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