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