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Events

• The return to power of Charles II of England, with a triumphant entrance into London on May 29, results in the publication of numerous panegyrics and similar verse by English poets praising the monarch.

Works published

• Elias Ashmole, Sol in Ascendente; or, The Glorious Appearance of Charles the Second, upon the Horizon of London, in her Horoscopicall Sign, Gemini, anonymous, on Charles II, who entered London on May 29 this year
• Charles Cotton, A Panegyrick to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
• Abraham Cowley:
  • Ode, Upon the Blessed Restoration and Returne of His Sacred Majestie, Charls, on Charles II, who entered London on May 29 of this year
  • writing under the pen name "Ezekiel Grebner", The Visions and Prophecies Concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland of Ezekiel Grebner, published this year, although the book states "1661"; a royalist political satire, in prose and verse
• Sir William Davenant:
  • "A Panegyric to his Excellency the Lord General Monck", to George Monck
  • "Poem, Upon His Sacred Majesties Most Happy Return to His Dominions", on Charles II, who entered London on May 29 of this year
• Sir Robert Howard, Poems
• John Phillips, Montelion, 1660; or, The Proheticall Almanack, published under the pen name "Montelion, knight of the oracle, a well-wisher to the mathematicks", a verse satire on William Lilly's almanacs
• Robert Wild, Iter Boreale
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:
  • Epicedia Academiæ Oxoniensis, a collection of poems offering condolence with the Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, for the death of her daughter Mary, the Princess Royal; two poems in the collection have been attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: a Latin poem, "In Obitum Serenissimae Mariae Principis Arausionensis," and an English poem, "To Her Sacred Majesty, the Queen Mother, on the Death of Mary, Princess of Orange."
  • Editor, Britannia Rediviva Oxford: Excudebat A. & L. Lichfield, Acad. Typogr., anthology
• George Wither, Speculum Speculativum; or, A Considering-Glass

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Anne Killigrew (died 1685), English poet
• Edward Ward (died 1731), satirical writer and publican

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• date not known – Jacob Cats (born 1576), Dutch poet
• date not known – Faqi Tayran, also spelled "Feqiyê Teyran", pen name of Mir Mihemed (born 1590), Kurdish
• October 6 – Paul Scarron (born 1610), French poet, playwright and novelist
• date not known – Sir Thomas Urquhart (born 1611), English

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature