1645 in poetry

This article covers 1645 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

Great Britain

Francis Quarles, Solomon's Recantation, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased
Sir Robert Stapylton, translator, Erotopagnion, translated from the original Latin of the Musaeus
Edmund Waller, Poems
George Wither, Vox Pacifica: A Voice Tending to the Pacification of God's Wrath

Other

AdriÃÂ¡n de Alesio, El AngÃÂ©lico ("The Angel"), dedicated to Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sheikh Muhammad, Yoga-samgrama

Works incorrectly dated this year

John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin, published 1646, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, notwithstanding the book's title page

Births

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

April 11 – Juan del Valle y Caviedes (died 1697), Spanish-born Peruvian poet and author

Deaths

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

March 10 – William Strode (born c.1602), English poet
April 3 (bur.) – Emilia Lanier, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer" (born 1569), English
July 7 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (born 1569), German officer and poet
July 13 – Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
August 28 – Hugo Grotius (born 1583), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright and poet
August 31 – Francesco Bracciolini (born 1566), Italian
September 8 – Francisco de Quevedo (born 1580), Spanish nobleman, politician and Golden Age poet
William Browne (born 1590), English pastoral poet
Feng Menglong (born 1574), Chinese writer and poet

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