Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• May 6 – American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day North Andover), Massachusetts.
• English clergyman, poet and dramatist Jasper Mayne is made a Doctor of Divinity.

Works published

• Guillaume Colletet, Le Banquet des Poètes
• Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses (expanded edition 1648)^[1]
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
• Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes^[1]
• John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (see below)
• James Shirley, Poems^[1]
• Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, works, including letters, poems and plays^[1]
• Henry Vaughan, Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished^[1]
• George Wither, Opobalsamum Anglicanum^[1]

Milton's Poems

Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispice depicting Milton surrounded by four muses

• John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times; published this year, although the book states 1645;^[1] the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems:
  • • On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
    • A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
    • Psalm 136
    • The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation; linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision
    • On Time
    • Upon the Circumcision
    • At A Solemn Musick
    • An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
    • Song on May Morning
    • On Shakespeare
    • On the University Carrier [Hobson's Epitaph]
    • Another on the Same
    • L'Allegro
    • Il Penseroso
    • Sonnets 1-10
    • Arcades
    • Lycidas
    • A Mask [Comus]

Births

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

• February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699), German statesman and poet
• March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died 1710), German baroque poet
• Pan Lei (died 1708), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
• Benedetto Menzini (died 1704), Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet

Deaths

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

• December 28 – François Maynard (born 1582), French poet

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

Notes