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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1652.

Events

  • March/April – John Milton loses the last of his eyesight during the year.
  • unknown date – A translation by Saiyid Aidarus of the Arabic religious poem "Hamziya" is the earliest known written example of Swahili literature.

New books

Prose

  • Anonymous – Eliza's Babes, or the Virgin's Offering
  • Elias Ashmole – Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.
  • Nicholas Culpepper – The English Physitian, or, An astrologo-physical discourse on the vulgar herbs of this nation, being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick (later known as The Complete Herbal)
  • Owen Feltham – Brief Character of the Low Countries
  • Antonio Rocco – L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola (Alcibiades the schoolboy)
  • Thomas Urquhart – The Jewel (Ekskybalauron): a vindication of the honor of Scotland
  • Henry Vaughan – Mount of Olives
  • Thomas Vaughan (philosopher) (Eugenius Philalethes) – The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R:C:
  • Gerrard Winstanley – The Law of Freedom

Drama

  • Anonymous – The Bastard
  • Richard Brome – A Jovial Crew
  • Francis Goldsmith – Sophompaneas, or Joseph (a translation of Hugo Grotius's tragedy)
  • Thomas Middleton – The Widow
  • John Tatham – The Scots Figgaries
  • Pedro Calderon de la Barca – La fiera, el rayo y la piedra
  • Agustín Moreto
  • San Franco de Siena
  • El parecido en la corte
  • Luis Velez de Guevara – Reinar después de morir
  • François le Métel de Boisrobert – Les Trois Orontes

Poetry

  • Edward Benlowes – Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice
  • Richard Crashaw – Deo Nostro Te Decet Hymnus
  • Antonio Enríquez Gómez – Sansón Nazareno
  • Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa – Poesías varias, heroicas, satíricas y amorosas

Births

  • March 2 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (died 1685)
  • April 13 – Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer (died 1708)
  • May – Jane Barker, English poet and dramatist (died 1732)
  • Unknown date – Nahum Tate, Irish poet and dramatist (died 1715)

Deaths

  • February 28 – Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist writer (born 1604)
  • April 12 – John Vicars, English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War (born 1582)
  • May – Claude de L'Estoile, French playwright and poet (born 1602)
  • May 5 – Mary (née Powell), English wife of John Milton (born 1625)
  • June 25 – Abraham von Franckenberg, German mystic, poet, and hymn writer (born 1593)
  • August 14 – Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer, proprietor of the House of Elzevir (born 1592)
  • October – Arthur Wilson, English playwright, historian, and poet (born 1595)
  • October 8 – John Greaves, English antiquary (born 1602)
  • October 20 – Antonio Coello, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1611)
  • November 29 – Francesco Angeloni, Italian historian, novelist, dramatist and collector (born 1587)
  • December 2 – Christopher Elderfield, English theologian (born 1607)
  • December 23 – John Cotton, English-born American theologian and minister (born 1585)

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