1665 in poetry

Events

• Jacques Testu de Belval elected to the Académie française

  Works published

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• Charles Cotton, Scarronides; or, Virgile Travestie, published anonymously
• Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Occasional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbury and Castle-Island
• Andrew Marvell, The Character of Holland, published anonymously
• John Phillips, translator, Typhon; or, The Gyants War with the Gods: A mock poem, translated from Paul Scarron
• George Wither:
• * Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer
• * Three Private Meditations, poetry and prose

  Other

• August Buchner, Hauptwerk, Anleitung zur deutschen Poeterei, German poet and critic, published in Wittenberg
• Daniel Levi de Barrios, also known as Miguel de Barrios, Flor de Apolo, Jewish Spanish poet living in the Netherlands, published in Brussels
• René Rapin, Hortorum libri IV, Paris; Latin-language poem written in France

  Births

• April 13 - Guillaume Massieu, French churchman, translator and poet
• December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter
• Ebenezer Cooke, English Colonial American poet
• William Hamilton, Scottish poet

  Deaths

• March 7 - Guillaume Bautru, French satirical poet and a founder member of the Académie française
• April 15 - Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet
• November 17 - John Earle, English bishop, writer and poet
• Samuel Coster, Dutch playwright and poet