1659 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1659.

Events

January 27 – Poet Andrew Marvell is elected member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in the Third Protectorate Parliament of England.
August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising.
Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.
Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completes composition of his Píslarsaga ("Passion Saga" or "Story of My Sufferings").

Richard Baxter – The Holy Commonwealth
Méric Casaubon – A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
Thomas Hobbes – De Homine
Christiaan Huygens – Systema Saturnium
Ninon de l'Enclos – La coquette vengée (The Flirt Avenged)
Richard Lovelace – Lucasta (posthumous)
Péter Révay – De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
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
Francisco Martinez de Mata – Epítome

Anonymous – The London Chanticleers
Richard Brome – Five New Plays, including The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
Joan Leonardsz Blasius – De Edelmoedige Vijanden
Sir William Davenant – The History of Sir Francis Drake
John Day & Henry Chettle – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
Richard Flecknoe – The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
Molière – Les Précieuses ridicules
Walter Montague – The Shepherd's Paradise
Agustín Moreto – No puede ser...
James Shirley
- The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
- Honoria and Mammon
Juan Bautista Diamante – El honrador de su padre

January 1 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian and archdeacon (died 1707)
March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (died 1738)
March 25 – John Asgill, English pamphleteer (died 1738)
March 26 – William Wollaston, English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died 1724)
April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (died 1730)
Unknown dates
- Thomas Creech, English classicist and translator (died 1700)
- Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet (died 1708)

January 7 – Laurenz Forer, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born 1580)
January 31 – János Apáczai Csere, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born 1625)
February 4 – Francis Osborne, English essayist (born 1593)
April 15 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnist (born 1605)
June 3 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born 1619)
September 22 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (born 1564)
October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist (born 1598)

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