1652 in literature

1652 in literature

The year 1652 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year. His wife Mary dies on May 5.

New books

*Anonymous - "Eliza's Babes, or the Virgin's Offering"
*Elias Ashmole - "Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum"
*Owen Feltham - "Brief Character of the Low Countries"
*Antonio Rocco - "L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola" ("Alcibiades the schoolboy")
*Henry Vaughan - "Mount of Olives"
*Gerrard Winstanley - "The Law of Freedom"

New drama

*Anonymous - "The Bastard"
*François le Métel de Boisrobert - "Les Trois Orontes"
*Richard Brome - "A Jovial Crew"
*Francis Goldsmith - "Sophompaneas, or Joseph" (a translation of Hugo Grotius's tragedy)
*Thomas Middleton - "The Widow"
*Cosmo Manuche - "The Just General"
** - "The Loyal Lovers"
*John Tatham - "The Scots Figgaries"

Poetry

* Edward Benlowes - "Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice"
* Richard Crashaw - "Deo Nostro Te Decet Hymnus"

Births

* March 2 - Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)
* "date unknown" - Nahum Tate, poet and dramatist (died 1715)

Deaths

* October 8 - John Greaves, antiquarian writer (born 1602)


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