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The year 1652 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year. His wife Mary dies on May 5.
New books
- Anonymous - Eliza's Babes, or the Virgin's Offering
- Elias Ashmole - Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- Owen Feltham - Brief Character of the Low Countries
- Antonio Rocco - L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola ("Alcibiades the schoolboy")
- Henry Vaughan - Mount of Olives
- Gerrard Winstanley - The Law of Freedom
New drama
- Anonymous - The Bastard
- François le Métel de Boisrobert - Les Trois Orontes
- Richard Brome - A Jovial Crew
- Francis Goldsmith - Sophompaneas, or Joseph (a translation of Hugo Grotius's tragedy)
- Thomas Middleton - The Widow
- Cosmo Manuche - The Just General
- - The Loyal Lovers
- John Tatham - The Scots Figgaries
Poetry
- Edward Benlowes - Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice
- Richard Crashaw - Deo Nostro Te Decet Hymnus
Births
- March 2 - Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)
- date unknown - Nahum Tate, poet and dramatist (died 1715)
Deaths
- October 8 - John Greaves, antiquarian writer (born 1602)
