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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1648.
Events
- February
- Ordinances are passed in England against plays; actors are to be fined and theatres pulled down.[1]
- Richard Flecknoe sails from Lisbon to Brazil.[2]
- April 7 – Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, in succession to Dr Morris.
- April 16 – René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.[3]
- June – Pierre Gassendi, having given up lecturing at the Collège Royal because of ill-health, returns to his home area of Digne.[4]
- July 14 – During the siege of Colchester, a cannon nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, possibly inspiring the nursery rhyme.
- October – Richard Lovelace, a Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.[5]
- December – King Charles I IS imprisoned in Windsor Castle, where he reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
- unknown dates
- Robert Boyle writes Seraphic Love, his first important work. Although it will not be published until 1660, he produces presentation copies for friends.[6]
- Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
- King Frederick III of Denmark establishes the Royal Library, Denmark.[7]
New books
Prose
- Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède – Cléopâtre
- Robert Filmer – Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament
- Thomas Gage – The English-American, or a New Survey of the West Indies
- Baltasar Gracián – Agudeza y arte de ingenio
- Francisco Martínez de Mata – Memorial a razón de la despoblación y pobreza de España y su remedio
- José García de Salcedo Coronel – Comentarios al Panegírico del Duque de Lerma de Luis de Góngora
- Fray Marcos de Salmerón – El príncipe escondido
- Madeleine de Scudéry – Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, volume 1
- John Wilkins – Mathematical Magick
- Gerrard Winstanley – The Mystery of God
Drama
- Anonymous – Crafty Cromwell
- Anonymous – Kentish Fair, or the Parliament Sold to Their Best Worth
- Anonymous ("Mercurius Melancholicus") – Mistress Parliament Her Gossiping
- Jasper Mayne – The Amorous War
Poetry
- Christen Aagaard – Threni Hyperborci
- Richard Corbet – Poetica Stromata
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland – Otia Sacra
- Robert Herrick
- Hesperides
- Noble Numbers
- Francisco de Borja y Aragón – Obras en verso
- Francisco López de Zárate – La invención de la Cruz
- Francisco de Quevedo (ed. Jusepe Antonio González de Salas) – El Parnaso español, en dos cumbre dividido, con las nueve musas
Births
- February 1 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (died 1724)
- November 12 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun, polymath, poet and playwright (died 1695)
- Unknown date – Gaspard Abeille, French poet (died 1718)
Deaths
- February 2 – George Abbot, English writer (born c. 1603)
- March 12 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist (born 1571)
- May 26 – Vincent Voiture, French writer and poet (born 1597)
- August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Anglo-Welsh writer and soldier (born 1583)
- September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French theologian and philosopher (born 1588)
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 182–183. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Fred Mayer (1987). The Prose Characters of Richard Flecknoe: A Critical Edition. Garland. p. lxxii. ISBN 978-0-8240-6019-0.
- ^ René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy: Translated, with Explanatory Notes. Springer Science & Business Media. 6 December 2012. p. 64. ISBN 978-94-009-7888-1.
- ^ Abbé A. Martin (1854). Histoire de la vie et des écrits de Pierre Gassendi. p. 149.
- ^ Life of Richard Lovelace
- ^ Lawrence Principe (8 October 2000). The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest. Princeton University Press. p. 231. ISBN 0-691-05082-1.
- ^ David H. Stam (November 2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Routledge. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-136-77785-1.