1652 in poetry

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Events

 * English poet John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year; his first wife Mary (née Powell, 1625) dies on May 5.
 * A translation by Saiyid Aidarus of the Arabic religious poem "Hamziya" is the earliest known written example of Swahili literature.

Works published

 * Edward Benlowes, Theophila; or, Loves Sacrifice, including some Latin poetry and translations
 * Richard Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnus: Sacred poems, containing poems from Steps to the Temple 1646, and new poetry
 * Sir Richard Fanshawe, Selected Parts of Horace, Prince of Lyricks, published anonymously; Latin and English verse on facing pages
 * John Hall, translator, Of the Height of Eloquence by Longinus (a work now known in English as On the Sublime)
 * John Phillips published a Latin reply to the anonymous attack on John Milton entitled Pro Rege et populo anglicano

Works incorrectly dated this year

 * Anonymous, A Hermeticall Banquet, published in 1651, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, although the book states "1652"; some attribute the book to James Howell, others to Thomas Vaughan

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * May - Jane Barker (died 1732), English poet and playwright
 * Hanabusa Itchō (died 1724), Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet
 * Nahum Tate (died 1715), Irish poet
 * Probable date - Vemana (died 1730), Telugu poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 12 - John Vicars (born 1582), English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
 * May - Claude de L'Estoile (born 1602), French playwright and poet
 * June 25 - Abraham von Franckenberg (born 1593), German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
 * October 20 - Antonio Coello (born 1611), Spanish dramatist and poet
 * November 21 - Jan Brożek (born 1585), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector
 * Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha (born 1570), Irish Gaelic poet and historian, killed
 * Wang Duo (born 1592), Chinese calligrapher, painter and poet
 * Approximate date - Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (born 1580), Irish Gaelic scholar and poet, killed