1648 in poetry

First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying:

And this same flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow will be dying.

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Works published

Title page of Robert Herrick's, Hesperides

Great Britain

  • Joseph Beaumont, Psyche; or, Loves Mysterie, In XX Canto's[1]
  • Richard Corbet, Poetica Stromata; or, A Collection of Sundry Peices [sic] in Poetry, the second edition of Certain Elegant Poems 1647, (see also Poems 1672)[1]
  • William Davenant, London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that City
  • Sir Richard Fanshawe, Il Pastor Fido the Faithfull Shepherd, entirely written by Fanshawe; intended as an addition to his translation of Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il Pastor Fido 1647[1]
  • Robert Herrick, Hesperides; or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., in two parts, secular and religious, the later with its own title page, with the title His Noble Numbers; or, His Pious Pieces; includes "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; the book states it was published in 1647, but it was published this year[1]
  • George Wither, writing under the pen name "Terrae-Filius", Prosopopoeia Britannica

Other

Births

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Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. Abdul Karim (2000). The Rohingyas: A Short Account of Their History and Culture. Arakan Historical Society. ISBN 9789843109422.
  3. Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 324
  4. Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972,
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