1641 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented Guirlande de Julie, a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year (although the manuscript was not published in full until 1729 in poetry); five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other authors were Georges de Scudéry, Germain Habert, Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Valentin Conrart, Chapelain, Racan, Tallemant des Réaux, Antoine Godeau, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and Simon Arnauld de Pomponne; France

Works published

Great Britain

• Thomas Beedome, Poems Divine, and Humane^[1]
• John Day, The Parliament of Bees, verse drama, first known edition, published posthumously^[2]
• Martin Parker, The Poet's Blind Mans Bough; or, Have Among You My Blind Harpers^[1]
• Sir Thomas Urquhart, Epigrams: Divine and Moral^[1]
• George Wither, Haleluiah; or, Britans [sic] Second Remembrancer (see also Britains Remembrancer 1628)^[1]

Other

• Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, Les Avis et presents, including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse; second revision (original version, Ombre 1626; revised and retitled, 1634), France^[3]

Births

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

• February 4 – Jerolim Kavanjin (died 1714), Croatian poet
• April 8 (bapt.) – William Wycherley (died 1716), English playwright and poet
• June 15 – Bernard de la Monnoye (died 1728), French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic

Deaths

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

• January 11 – Juan de Jáuregui (born 1583), Spanish poet, scholar and painter
• August 16 – Thomas Heywood (born sometime early 1570s), English playwright, actor, poet and author
• August – Sir William Vaughan (born 1575), Welsh writer, poet and colonial investor
• Francesca Caccini (born 1587), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
• Arthur Johnston (born c. 1579), Scottish poet and physician

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
3. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8