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1631 in poetry

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Image:Donne-shroud.png commissioned this portrait of himself as he expected to appear when he rose from the grave at the Apocalypse.Lapham, Lewis. The End of the World. Thomas Dunne Books: New York, 1997. page 98. He hung the portrait on his wall as a reminder of the transience of life. The next year, a memorial statue of Donne was erected at St. Paul's Cathedral, with the statue carved from this image.Donne, John, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ObaxqTH2w2wC The Complete English Poems], Introduction and notes by A. J. Smith, "Table of Dates", pp 24-25, Penguin Books, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010]]

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Works

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  • Charles Aleyn, The Battailes of Crescey, and PoctiersCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
  • Richard Braithwait:
  • The English Gentleman
  • The English Gentlewoman
  • William L'Isle, The Faire Aethiopian, published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, Aethiopica)
  • David Lloyd, The Legend of Captain Jones, Part 1; published anonymously; attributed to Lloyd or, sometimes, to Martin Lluelyn (Part 2 in 1648)

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Births

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  • January 1 – Katharine Philips (died 1664), Welsh
  • August 19 (Old style: August 9) – John Dryden (died 1700) influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
  • October 18 – Michael Wigglesworth (died 1705), English Puritan minister and doctor, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"Trent, William P. and Wells, Benjamin W., Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903 edition, page 41
  • date not known – John Phillips (died 1706), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips and nephew of John Milton

Deaths

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