1648 in literature

1648 in literature

The year 1648 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Richard Lovelace, Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.
* René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the "Conversation with Burman".
* During the siege of Colchester, the cannon, "Humpty Dumpty", is blown off the walls, inspiring the nursery rhyme.
* Robert Boyle writes "Seraphic Love", his first important work, which will not be published until 1660.
* Ill-health forces Pierre Gassendi to give up lecturing at the Collège Royal.
* Richard Flecknoe travels to Brazil.
* Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, but Obadiah Walker loses his academic post.
* Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
* King Charles I, imprisoned in Windsor Castle, reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

New books

*Robert Filmer - "Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament"
*Madeleine de Scudéry - "Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus", volume 1
*John Wilkins - "Mathematical Magick"

Published plays

*Anonymous - "Crafty Cromwell"
*Anonymous - "Kentish Fair, or the Parliament Sold to Their Best Worth"
*Anonymous ("Mercurius Melancholicus") - "Mistress Parliament Her Gossiping"
*Jasper Mayne - "The Amorous War"

Poetry

*Christen Aagaard - "Threni Hyperborci"
*Richard Corbet - "Poetica Stromata"
*Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland - "Otia Sacra"
*Robert Herrick
**"Hesperides"
**"Noble Numbers"

Births

* January 1 - Elkanah Settle, poet and dramatist (died 1724)
* "date unknown" - Gaspard Abeille, poet (died 1718)

Deaths

* February 2 - George Abbot, Puritan writer (born c.1603)
* March 12 - Tirso de Molina, dramatist (born 1571)
* May 26 - Vincent Voiture, poet (born 1597)
* August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (born 1583)
* September 1 - Marin Mersenne, theologian and philosopher (born 1588)


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