1642 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1642 in poetry

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Events

May–June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster for defying Parliament, during which time he perhaps writes To Althea, from Prison^[1]

John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed
Arthur Johnston, died 1641, Opera, Scottish poet writing in Latin
Sir Francis Kynaston, Leoline and Sydanis^[2]
Henry More, Psychodia Platonica; or, A Platonicall Song of the Soul^[2]
Alexander Ross, Mel Heliconium; or, Poeticall Honey^[2]
John Taylor, Mad Fashions, Odd Fashions, All Out of Fashions; or, The Emblems of those Distracted Times^[2]

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

Abdul-Qādir Bēdil (died 1720), Persian poet and Sufi
Yusuf Nabi (died 1712), Turkish diwan poet
Ihara Saikaku (died 1693), Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose, ukiyo-zōshi
Thomas Shadwell (died 1692), English poet and playwright appointed poet laureate in 1689
Edward Taylor (died 1729), Colonial American poet, physician and clergyman^[3]
December 30 – Vincenzo da Filicaja (died 1707), Italian poet

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

^ Wood, Anthony. Athenæ Oxonienses.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

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