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1648 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1648.
Events
- February
- April 7 – Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, in succession to Dr Morris.
- April 16 – René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.[3]
- June – Pierre Gassendi, having given up lecturing at the Collège Royal because of ill-health, returns to his home area of Digne.[4]
- July 14 – During the siege of Colchester, a cannon nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, possibly inspiring the nursery rhyme.
- October – Richard Lovelace, a Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.[5]
- December – King Charles I IS imprisoned in Windsor Castle, where he reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
- unknown dates
- Robert Boyle writes Seraphic Love, his first important work. Although it will not be published until 1660, he produces presentation copies for friends.[6]
- Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
- King Frederick III of Denmark establishes the Royal Library, Denmark.[7]
New books
Prose
- Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède – Cléopâtre
- Robert Filmer – Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament
- Thomas Gage – The English-American, or a New Survey of the West Indies
- Baltasar Gracián – Agudeza y arte de ingenio
- Francisco Martínez de Mata – Memorial a razón de la despoblación y pobreza de España y su remedio
- José García de Salcedo Coronel – Comentarios al Panegírico del Duque de Lerma de Luis de Góngora
- Fray Marcos de Salmerón – El príncipe escondido
- Madeleine de Scudéry – Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, volume 1[8]
- John Wilkins – Mathematical Magick
- Gerrard Winstanley – The Mystery of God
Drama
- Anonymous – Crafty Cromwell
- Anonymous – Kentish Fair, or the Parliament Sold to Their Best Worth[9]
- Anonymous ("Mercurius Melancholicus") – Mistress Parliament Her Gossiping[10]
- Jasper Mayne – The Amorous War
Poetry
- Christen Aagaard – Threni Hyperborci[11]
- Richard Corbet – Poetica Stromata
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland – Otia Sacra
- Robert Herrick[12]
- Hesperides
- Noble Numbers
- Francisco de Borja y Aragón – Obras en verso[13]
- Francisco López de Zárate – La invención de la Cruz[14]
- Francisco de Quevedo (ed. Jusepe Antonio González de Salas) – El Parnaso español, en dos cumbre dividido, con las nueve musas
Births
- February 1 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (died 1724)
- November 12 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun, polymath, poet and playwright (died 1695)
- Unknown date – Gaspard Abeille, French poet (died 1718)
Deaths
- February 2 – George Abbot, English writer (born c. 1603)
- February 22 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Luxembourgish Jesuit theologian (born 1570)
- March 12 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist (born 1571)[15]
- May 26 – Vincent Voiture, French writer and poet (born 1597)[16]
- May – William Percy, English poet and playwright (born 1583)[17]
- July 31 – Benedictus van Haeften, Dutch theologian (born 1588)
- August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Anglo-Welsh writer and soldier (born 1574)[18]
- September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French theologian and philosopher (born 1588)
- December 16 – Arthur Duck, English lawyer and author (born 1580)[19]
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 182–183. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Fred Mayer (1987). The Prose Characters of Richard Flecknoe: A Critical Edition. Garland. p. lxxii. ISBN 978-0-8240-6019-0.
- ^ René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy: Translated, with Explanatory Notes. Springer Science & Business Media. 6 December 2012. p. 64. ISBN 978-94-009-7888-1.
- ^ Abbé A. Martin (1854). Histoire de la vie et des écrits de Pierre Gassendi. p. 149.
- ^ Life of Richard Lovelace
- ^ Lawrence Principe (8 October 2000). The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest. Princeton University Press. p. 231. ISBN 0-691-05082-1.
- ^ David H. Stam (November 2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Routledge. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-136-77785-1.
- ^ German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: Winckelmann, Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller and Goethe. Cambridge University Press. 1985. p. 288.
- ^ Harbage, Alfred (1989). Annals of English drama, 975-1700 : an analytical record of all plays, extant or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles, dramatic companies, & c. London New York: Routledge. p. 282. ISBN 9780415010993.
- ^ Elmer, Peter (2016). Witchcraft, witch-hunting, and politics in early modern England. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 316. ISBN 9780198717720.
- ^ The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. D. Appleton. 1873. p. 2.
- ^ Marcus, Leah (1996). Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton. London New York: Routledge. p. 183. ISBN 9780415099349.
- ^ Belmonte, Javier (2007). Las obras en verso del príncipe de Esquilache: amateurismo y conciencia literaria. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY: Tamesis. p. 106. ISBN 9781855661493.
- ^ J. Bertrand Payne (2020). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography. Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH. p. 584. ISBN 9783846047705.
- ^ Darst, David (1974). The comic art of Tirso de Molina. Chapel Hill Madrid: Dept. of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina Distribuido por Editorial Castalia. p. 11. ISBN 9788439920557.
- ^ Smet, Ingrid (1996). Menippean satire and the republic of letters, 1581-1655. Genève: Librairie Droz. p. 231. ISBN 9782600001472.
- ^ Bodleian Library, MS Wood F.4, p. 83; qtd. Harold N. Hillebrand, "William Percy: An Elizabethan Amateur," Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (1938): 400.
- ^ 1648 in literature at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.