1666 in poetry

Events

• In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius, 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
• George Wither, Sigh for he Pitchers

  Births

• November 12 - Mary Astell, English feminist writer

  Deaths

• February 12 - Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, English nobleman, politician, and writer
• June 15 - Łukasz Opaliński, Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
• June 16 - Sir Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat, translator and poet
• June 30 - Alexander Brome, English
• October - James Shirley, English poet and playwright
• November - Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch
• November 3 - James Howell, English pamphleteer and poet
• Gysbert Japiks, Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld, French playwright and poet