1653 In Literature

Events

• Pierre Corneille retires from the theatre for six years.
• John Evelyn buys Sayes Court, Deptford.

New Books

• A History of New England - Edward Johnson
• The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton
• Poems and Fancies - Margaret Cavendish
• Trait du triangle arithmtique - Blaise Pascal
• Twenty-five Sermons - Jeremy Taylor

Births

• January 13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian
• probable - Nathaniel Lee, dramatist
• probable - Matthew Tindal, deist writer

Deaths

• May 26 - Robert Filmer, political writer
• July 10 - Gabriel Naud, librarian and scholar
• September 3 - Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar
• exact date unknown - Zachary Boyd, poet
• exact date unknown - Piaras Feiritar, Irish language poet

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