1659 in literature

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The year 1659 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Andrew Marvell becomes a member of Parliament.
• Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.

New books

• 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

New drama

• Joan Leonardsz Blasius - De Edelmoedige Vijanden
• Sir William Davenant - The History of Sir Francis Drake
• Molière - Les précieuses ridicules

Published drama

• 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

Poetry

Main article: 1659 in poetry

• William Chamberlayne - Pharonnida

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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)