1659 in literature

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The year 1659 in literature involved some significant events.

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Richard Baxter - The Holy Commonwealth
Méric Casaubon - A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
Thomas Hobbes - De Homine
Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium
Ninon de l'Enclos - La coquette vengée ("The Flirt Avenged")
Richard Lovelace - Lucasta (posthumous)
Anna Maria van Schurman - The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English translation of the 1638 Latin original)
Jeremy Taylor - Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship

Anonymous - The London Chanticleers
Richard Brome - Five New Plays, a collection that included The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
John Day & Henry Chettle - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
Richard Flecknoe - The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
Walter Montague - The Shepherd's Paradise
James Shirley - The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses and Honoria and Mammon

March 26 - William Wollaston, philosopher (died 1724)
April 29 - Sophia Elisabet Brenner, poet, writer (died 1730)
date unknown
- John Asgill, pamphleteer (died 1738)
- Thomas Creech, translator (died 1700)
- Humphrey Hody, theologian (died 1707)
- Margrethe Lasson, writer (died 1738)

January 7 - Laurenz Forer, Jesuit writer (born 1580)
January 31 - János Apáczai Csere, linguist, mathematician and encyclopaedist (born 1625)
February 4 - Francis Osborne, essayist (born 1593)
April 15 - Simon Dach, poet (born 1605)
October 27 - Giovanni Francesco Busenello, poet and librettist (born 1598)