1661 in poetry
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Works published
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- Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"
- Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems
- John Bunyan, Profitable Meditations Fitted to Mans Different Condition, the author's first prison work and first published verse
- John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, Charles II of England was crowned April 23 this year
- John Evelyn, A Panegyric to Charles the Second
- Edmund Waller, A Poem on St James's Park
- George Wither, The Prisoners Plea
Other
- Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously
Births
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- April - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, born Anne Kingsmill, English poet
- April 16 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman
- Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie, German-born Swedish poet and noble
- Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku", Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō
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- * William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
- * Samuel Garth, English physician and poet
- * John Tutchin, English radical Whig controversialist, gadfly journalist and poet
Deaths
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