1647 in poetry

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Events

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Works published

English

• Richard Corbet, Certain Elegant Poems, edited by John Donne the younger (1604–1662) (see also Poetica Stromata 1648).^[1]
• Abraham Cowley, The Mistresse; or, Several Copies of Love-Verses.^[1]
• Battista Guarini (see also Il Pastor Fido 1648).^[1]
• John Hall of Durham, Poems.^[1]
• Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis 1629; later editions state that Francis Quarles is the author.^[1]
• Henry More, Philosophical Poems.^[1]
• Francis Quarles, Hosanna; or, Divine Poems on the Passion of Christ.^[1]
• Sir Robert Stapylton, Juvenal's Sixteen Satyres; or, A Survey of the Manners and Actions of Mankind.^[1]
• George Wither:
  • Amygdala Britannica, Almonds for Parrot's, published anonymously.^[1]
  • Carmen Expostulatorium; or, A Timely Expostulation.^[1]

Other languages

• François Vavasseur, Antonius Godellus, episcopus Grassensis, a satire on Antoine Godeau; France
• Netherlands

Works incorrectly dated this year

• Robert Herrick, Hesperides; or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., the book states it was published this year, but it was published in 1648, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature^[1]

Births

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

• Nicholas Noyes (died 1717), English Colonial American clergyman, one of those presiding over the Salem witch trials and a poet.^[2]
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (died 1680), English writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.

Deaths

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

• May 21 –
  Dutch
  historian, poet and playwright.
• Moses Belmonte (born 1619), polyglot poet and translator.
• German
  poet and hymn writer.
• Claude de Malleville (born 1597), French poet.
• Francis Meres (born 1565), English churchman, author, critic and poet.
• Wang Wei (born 1597), Chinese
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• Poetry.
• 17th century in poetry.
• 17th century in literature.
• Cavalier poets
  in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War.

Notes