- 1659 in literature
The year 1659 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
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Andrew Marvell becomes a member of Parliament.New books
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Richard Baxter - "The Holy Commonwealth"
*Thomas Hobbes - "De Homine"
*Christiaan Huygens - "Systema Saturnium"
*Ninon de l'Enclos - "La coquette vengée" ("The Flirt Avenged")
*Richard Lovelace - "Lucasta" (posthumous)
*Anna Maria van Schurman - "The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar?" (English translation of the 1638Latin original)
*Jeremy Taylor - "Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship"New drama
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William Davenant - "The History of Sir Francis Drake "
*Molière - "Les précieuses ridicules"Published drama
*Anonymous - "The London Chanticleers"
*Richard Brome - "Five New Plays", a collection that included "The English Moor ,The Lovesick Court ,The Weeding of Covent Garden ,The New Academy ", and "The Queen and Concubine "
*John Day &Henry Chettle - "The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green" (published six decades after its premiere)
*Richard Flecknoe - "The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia"
*Walter Montague - "The Shepherd's Paradise "
*James Shirley - "The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses " and "Honoria and Mammon "Poetry
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William Chamberlayne - "Pharonnida"Births
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March 26 -William Wollaston , philosopher (died1724 )
*April 29 -Sophia Elisabet Brenner , poet, writer (died 1730)
* "date unknown" -Thomas Creech , translator (died1700 )
* "date unknown" -John Asgill , pamphleteer (died1738 )
* "date unknown" -Humphrey Hody , theologian (died1707 )Deaths
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April 15 -Simon Dach , poet (born1605 )
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