1666 in poetry
# 1666 in poetry

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

## Events

* In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677

## Works published

* George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland, English Colonial American
* Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (the first 64 lines had been published anonymously on a single sheet in 1665)
* George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers

## Births

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

* November 12 – Mary Astell (died 1732), English feminist writer

## Deaths

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

* February 12 – Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (born 1602), English nobleman, politician, and writer
* June 15 – Łukasz Opaliński (born 1612), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
* June 16 – Sir Richard Fanshawe (born 1608), English diplomat, translator and poet
* June 30 – Alexander Brome (born 1620), English
* October – James Shirley (born 1596), English poet and playwright
* November – Jeremias de Dekker (born 1610), Dutch
* November 3 (bur.) – James Howell (born 1594), English pamphleteer and poet
* Gysbert Japiks (born 1603), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
* Jean Ogier de Gombauld (born 1576), French playwright and poet
