Overview of the events of 1659 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1659 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish poet and novelist (died 1738)
- April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner (died 1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
- date not known
- Thomas Creech (died 1700), English translator and scholar
- Daniel Defoe (year between 1659 and 1661), (died 1731), English author, writer, journalist, spy and poet, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He is interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where his grave can still be visited.
- Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (died 1708), Hungarian poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 11 – Guillaume Colletet (born 1598), French
- April 15 – Simon Dach (born 1605), Prussian German lyrical poet and hymn writer
- Akho (born 1591), Indian poet, Vedantist and radical[3]
- Richard Johnson (born 1573), English romance writer, playwright, and poet
- Morgan Llwyd (born 1619), Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer
- Francisco de Rioja (born 1583), Spanish