This article covers 1649 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
- Richard Brome, perhaps the editor, Lachrymae Musarum: The Tears of the Muses, anonymous collection of elegies on the death of Henry, Lord Hastings; assumed to have been assembled by Brome
- Richard Lovelace, Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c., to which is added Aramantha, A Pastoral., London: Tho. Harper (see also Lucasta: Posthume Poems 1659)
- John Ogilby, translator, The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, translation from the original Latin, "a respectable and often sumptuously printed work [...] which, until [John] Dryden's folio [of 1697], was not superseded", according to 20th century critic Mark Van Doren
- Thomas Stanley, the elder, Europa. Cupid Crucified. Venus Vigils
- George Wither, Carmen Eucharisticon
- Elegies on the execution of King Charles I of England on January 30:
- Henry King, A Groane at the Funerall of that Incomparable and Glorious Monarch, Charles the First
- Thomas Pierce, anonymously, Caroli ÃÂÿῦ üñúñÃÂïÃÂÿÃÂ
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- Monumentum Regale, a Tombe for Charles I, collection
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 20 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (born 1594), Dutch
- December 4 – William Drummond of Hawthornden (born 1585), Scottish
- Richard Crashaw, (born 1613), English poet, styled "the divine," one of the Metaphysical poets
- Ascanio Pio (born unknown), Italian dramatic poet
- Jean Sirmond (born 1589), French neo-Latin poet and man of letters
- Manuel de Faria e Sousa (born 1590), Portuguese historian and poet
- Giovanni Valentini (born 1582), Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
See also
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