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The year 1659 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- Andrew Marvell becomes a member of Parliament.
New books
- Richard Baxter - The Holy Commonwealth
- Thomas Hobbes - De Homine
- Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium
- Ninon de l'Enclos - La coquette vengée ("The Flirt Avenged")
- Richard Lovelace - Lucasta (posthumous)
- Anna Maria van Schurman - The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English translation of the 1638 Latin original)
- Jeremy Taylor - Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
New drama
- Sir William Davenant - The History of Sir Francis Drake
- Molière - Les précieuses ridicules
Published drama
- Anonymous - The London Chanticleers
- Richard Brome - Five New Plays, a collection that included The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
- John Day & Henry Chettle - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
- Richard Flecknoe - The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
- Walter Montague - The Shepherd's Paradise
- James Shirley - The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses and Honoria and Mammon
Poetry
- William Chamberlayne - Pharonnida
Births
- March 26 - William Wollaston, philosopher (died 1724)
- April 29 - Sophia Elisabet Brenner, poet, writer (died 1730)
- date unknown - Thomas Creech, translator (died 1700)
- date unknown - John Asgill, pamphleteer (died 1738)
- date unknown - Humphrey Hody, theologian (died 1707)
Deaths
- April 15 - Simon Dach, poet (born 1605)
