1652 in literature

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The year 1652 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year. His wife Mary dies on May 5.

New books

• Anonymous - Eliza's Babes, or the Virgin's Offering
• Elias Ashmole - Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.
• Owen Feltham - Brief Character of the Low Countries
• Antonio Rocco - L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola ("Alcibiades the schoolboy")
• Henry Vaughan - Mount of Olives
• Gerrard Winstanley - The Law of Freedom

New drama

• Anonymous - The Bastard
• François le Métel de Boisrobert - Les Trois Orontes
• Richard Brome - A Jovial Crew
• Francis Goldsmith - Sophompaneas, or Joseph (a translation of Hugo Grotius's tragedy)
• Cosmo Manuche - The Just General
  • - The Loyal Lovers
• Thomas Middleton - The Widow
• John Tatham - The Scots Figgaries

Poetry

• Edward Benlowes - Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice
• Richard Crashaw - Deo Nostro Te Decet Hymnus

Births

• March 2 - Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)
• date unknown - Nahum Tate, poet and dramatist (died 1715)

Deaths

• October 8 - John Greaves, antiquarian writer (born 1602)