1662 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• John Dryden made a member of the Royal Society^[1]

Works published

Great Britain

• Sir Aston Cokayne, Poems, second edition of Small Poems of Divers Sorts 1658^[2]
• John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor, Presented on New-Years-Day^[2]
• Michael Wigglesworth, "The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment", a "doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry (1903), that "attained immediately a phenomenal popularity. Eighteen hundred copies were sold within a year, and for the next century it held a secure place in [New England] Puritan households. As late as 1828 it was stated that many aged persons were still alive who could repeat it, as it had been taught them with their catechism; and the more widely one reads in the voluminous sermons of that generation, the more fair will its representation of prevailing theology in New England appear."^[3]

Other

• Jean de La Fontaine, Ode au roi ("Ode to the King"), which defends Nicolas Fouquet, France
• Michel de Marolles, Traité du poème épique, France
• Jacob Steendam, Praise of New Netherland, Dutch, Colonial American^[4]
• Joost van den Vondel, Joannes de Boetgezant ("John the Baptist"), epic, Dutch

Births

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

• October 6 (bapt.) - William Walsh (died 1708), English poet and critic
• December 17 - Samuel Wesley (died 1735), English poet and religious leader
• Naitō Jōsō (died 1704), Japanese Genroku period haiku poet, a principal disciple of Bashō
• John Smith (died 1717), English poet and playwright

Deaths

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

• March 28 - Pierre de Boissat (born 1603), French soldier, writer, poet and translator
• March 30 - François le Métel de Boisrobert (born 1592), French

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes

1. ↑ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 14, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
2. 1 2 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. ↑ Trent, William P. and Wells, Benjamin W., Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903 single-volume edition, pp 47-48
4. ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press