1659 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 27 – English poet Andrew Marvell is elected member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in the Third Protectorate Parliament. August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising. William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida: A heroick poem John Cleveland, J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems, orations, epistles [...
1667 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 27 – The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract for publication of his epic poem Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5. The first edition is published in October in 10 books and sells out in eighteen months (second edition, in 12 books, published 1674).
1616 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 1 – King James I of England grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks, making him de facto poet laureate. William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals. The Second Booke (see also Book 1, 1613; both books published together 1625) George Chapman, translator: The Divine Poem of Musaeus.
1743 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Blair, The Grave a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph James Bramston, The Crooked Six-pence, published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac Reed in his Repository 1777; a parody of John Philips' The Splendid Shilling 1705, and that poem's text is included in this publication William Collins, Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Th
1707 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Elizabeth Bradford and William Bradford write prefatory poems for Benjamin Keach's War with the Devil, Colonial America Samuel Cobb, Poems on Several Occasions Benjamin Colman, "A Poem on Elijah's Translation, occasioned by the death of Rev.
1720 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Jane Brereton, An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr.
1709 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets (1708) Samuel Cobb, The Female Reign John Dryden, editor, Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (usually known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies), sixth in a series of anthologies published by Jacob Tonson from 1684 to this year The 752-page volume, printed on thin paper without book covers (which buyers could arrange to get), the dimensions of which were "roughly that of a middling-sized modern paperback".
1634 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Duke de Medinaceli forces Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo into a 3-month marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón. Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published (see also Anniversaries [...
1640 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Early? – Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. is published (posthumously) by John Benson in London, the first collection of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry, although incomplete and mangled and with some male pronouns changed to female in the sonnets (here reissued for the first time since original publication).
1642 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May–June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster for defying Parliament, during which time he perhaps writes To Althea, from Prison John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many t
