1648 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Joseph Beaumont, Psyche; or, Loves Mysterie, In XX Canto's
• Richard Corbet, Poetica Stromata; or, A Collection of Sundry Peices in Poetry, the second edition of Certain Elegant Poems 1647,
• William Davenant, London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that City
• Sir Richard Fanshawe, Il Pastor Fido the Faithfull Shepherd, entirely written by Fanshawe; intended as an addition to his translation of Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il Pastor Fido 1647
• Robert Herrick, Hesperides; or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., in two parts, secular and religious, the later with its own title page, with the title His Noble Numbers; or, His Pious Pieces; includes "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; the book states it was published in 1647, but it was published this year
• George Wither, writing under the pen name "Terrae-Filius", Prosopopoeia Britannica

  Other

• Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh
• Francisco de Quevedo, El Parnasso español, monte en dos cumbres, dividido con las nueve Musas castellanas, edited by Antonio Jose Gonzalez de Salas; Spain
• Paul Scarron, Virgile travesti; France

  Births

• February 1 - Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright
• April 7 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet
• November 12 - Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun, polymath, poet and playwright

• Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet
• Petter Dass, Norwegian poet

  Deaths

• January 14 - Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle, Dutch
• May 26 - Vincent Voiture, French poet and writer
• August 20 - Edward Herbert, Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
• Thomas Ford, English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet
• Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena,, a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and Hebrew-language poet
• Tirso de Molina, Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet
• William Percy, English poet