Poetry
- Anne Bradstreet - Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (posthumously published)
- Samuel Butler - Hudibras, Part 3
- Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter - Själens aandelige Sangoffer ("The Souls Spiritual Offering of Song")
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“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
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