1646 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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.
1649 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Richard Brome, perhaps the editor, Lachrymae Musarum: The Tears of the Muses, anonymous collection of elegies on the death of Henry, Lord Hastings; assumed to have been assembled by Brome Richard Lovelace, Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c., to which is added Aramantha, A Pastoral., London: Tho.
1666 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1675 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Guru Gobind Singh becomes guru at the age of nine years Charles Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously The Scoffer Scoft, the second part of the above Burlesque [...
1682 in poetryNationality words link to articles concerning that nation's poetry or literature (for example, Irish or French). Matthew Coppinger, Poems, Songs and Lover-Verses, upon Several Subjects Thomas Creech, translator, De Natura Rerum, published anonymously; translated from the Latin of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.
1754 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously John Duncombe, The Feminiad: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition, now called The Feminead, came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write.
1732 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"): "An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock" "In Memory of [. . .
1714 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley. End – Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović begins compilation of the Perast Chronicle, a collection of epic poetry. John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured [.
1685 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Cotton Mather, An Elegy [...
1692 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 16 - Julije Balović completes transcription of Junije Palmotić's drama Danica to which he appends three poems of unknown authors, including "Blind man sings of love events" (Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi). November - Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.
