1646 in poetry
# 1646 in poetry

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## Events

* May 6 – American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day North Andover), Massachusetts.
* English clergyman, poet and dramatist Jasper Mayne is made a Doctor of Divinity.

## Works published

* Guillaume Colletet, Le Banquet des Poètes
* Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses (expanded edition 1648)
* Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
* Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes
* John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (see below)
* James Shirley, Poems
* Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, works, including letters, poems and plays
* Henry Vaughan, Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished
* George Wither, Opobalsamum Anglicanum

### Milton's Poems

* John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times; published this year, although the book states 1645; the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems:
      * On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
      * A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
      * Psalm 136
      * The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation; linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision
      * On Time
      * Upon the Circumcision
      * At A Solemn Musick
      * An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
      * Song on May Morning
      * On Shakespeare
      * On the University Carrier [Hobson's Epitaph]
      * Another on the Same
      * L'Allegro
      * Il Penseroso
      * Sonnets 1-10
      * Arcades
      * Lycidas
      * A Mask [Comus]

## Births

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* February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699), German statesman and poet
* March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died 1710), German baroque poet
* Pan Lei (died 1708), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
* Benedetto Menzini (died 1704), Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet

## Deaths

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* December 28 – François Maynard (born 1582), French poet
