1648 in literature

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The year 1648 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Richard Lovelace, Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.
• René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.
• During the siege of Colchester, the cannon, Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, inspiring the nursery rhyme.
• Robert Boyle writes Seraphic Love, his first important work, which will not be published until 1660.
• Ill-health forces Pierre Gassendi to give up lecturing at the Collège Royal.
• Richard Flecknoe travels to Brazil.
• Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, but Obadiah Walker loses his academic post.
• Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
• King Charles I, imprisoned in Windsor Castle, reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

New books

• Robert Filmer - Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament
• Madeleine de Scudéry - Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, volume 1
• John Wilkins - Mathematical Magick

Published plays

• Anonymous - Crafty Cromwell
• Anonymous - Kentish Fair, or the Parliament Sold to Their Best Worth
• Anonymous ("Mercurius Melancholicus") - Mistress Parliament Her Gossiping
• Jasper Mayne - The Amorous War

Poetry

• Christen Aagaard - Threni Hyperborci
• Richard Corbet - Poetica Stromata
• Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland - Otia Sacra
• Robert Herrick
  • Hesperides
  • Noble Numbers

Births

• January 1 - Elkanah Settle, poet and dramatist (died 1724)
• date unknown - Gaspard Abeille, poet (died 1718)

Deaths

• February 2 - George Abbot, Puritan writer (born c.1603)
• March 12 - Tirso de Molina, dramatist (born 1571)
• May 26 - Vincent Voiture, poet (born 1597)
• August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (born 1583)
• September 1 - Marin Mersenne, theologian and philosopher (born 1588)