1666 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1656 . 1657 . 1658 . 1659 . 1660 . 1661 . 1662 ...; 1663 1664 1665 -1666- 1667 1668 1669; ... 1670 . 1671 . 1672 . 1673 . 1674 . 1675 . 1676 ... In literature: 1663 1664 1665 -1666- 1667 1668 1669
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Events [edit]

In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677^[1]

George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland, English Colonial American^[2]
Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (the first 64 lines had been published anonymously on a single sheet in 1665)^[3]
George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers^[3]

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

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

October – James Shirley (born 1596), English poet and playwright
Alexander Brome (born 1620), English
Jeremias de Dekker (born 1610), Dutch
Sir Richard Fanshawe (born 1608), English diplomat, translator, and poet
James Howell (born 1594), English pamphleteer and poet
Gysbert Japiks (born 1603), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
Jean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576), French playwright and poet
Łukasz Opaliński (born 1612), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist

^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ ^a ^b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6