title: 1646 in poetry
text: # 1646 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * May 6 – American colonial poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day North Andover), Massachusetts.
  * English clergyman, poet and dramatist Jasper Mayne is made a Doctor of Divinity.
  
  ## Works published
  
  * Guillaume Colletet, Le Banquet des Poètes
  * Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses (expanded edition 1648)
  * Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Poésies
  * Martin Lluelyn, Men-Miracles: With other poemes
  * John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (see below)
  * James Shirley, Poems
  * Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, works, including letters, poems and plays
  * Henry Vaughan, Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished
  * George Wither, Opobalsamum Anglicanum
  
  ### Milton's Poems
  
  * John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times; published this year, although the book states 1645; the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems:
        * On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
        * A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
        * Psalm 136
        * The Passion an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation; linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision
        * On Time
        * Upon the Circumcision
        * At A Solemn Musick
        * An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
        * Song on May Morning
        * On Shakespeare
        * On the University Carrier [Hobson's Epitaph]
        * Another on the Same
        * L'Allegro
        * Il Penseroso
        * Sonnets 1-10
        * Arcades
        * Lycidas
        * A Mask [Comus]
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699), German statesman and poet
  * March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died 1710), German baroque poet
  * Pan Lei (died 1708), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
  * Benedetto Menzini (died 1704), Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * December 28 – François Maynard (born 1582), French poet
  