1659 in poetry

• January 27 – English poet Andrew Marvell is elected member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in the Third Protectorate Parliament. • August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising. ==Works published==

===Great Britain=== • William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida: A heroick poem • John Cleveland, J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems, orations, epistles [...], prose and poetry (see also Clievelandi Vindiciae 1677) • René Rapin, Eclogæ Sacræ, Paris; Latin-language poem written in France ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish poet and novelist (died 1738) • April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner (died 1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess • date not known • Thomas Creech (died 1700), English translator and scholar • Daniel Defoe (year between 1659 and 1661), (died 1731), English author, writer, journalist, spy and poet, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He is interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where his grave can still be visited. • Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (died 1708), Hungarian poet ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 11 – Guillaume Colletet (born 1598), French • April 15 – Simon Dach (born 1605), Prussian German lyrical poet and hymn writer • Akho (born 1591), Indian poet, Vedantist and radical • Richard Johnson (born 1573), English romance writer, playwright, and poet • Morgan Llwyd (born 1619), Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer • Francisco de Rioja (born 1583), Spanish ==See also==