1666 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1666 in poetry
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Events
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]
Works published
Births
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Deaths
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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 cantorJean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576 ), French playwright and poet
See also
Notes
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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