1667 In Literature

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EVENTS

The Roman Catholic Church places the works of René Descartes on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum .

Molière 's play, '' Tartuffe '', is banned.

Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon , is impeached by Parliament and forced into exile in France, where he spends the rest of his life working on his history of the English Civil War .

Elias Ashmole presents the library of John Tradescant to the University Of Oxford .

NEW BOOKS

'' Paradise Lost '' - John Milton

''Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666'' - John Dryden

Biography of William Cavendish, Duke Of Newcastle by his wife, Margaret Cavendish

NEW DRAMA

Pierre Corneille - ''Attila''

John Dryden - ''Secret Love''

Jean Racine - '' Andromaque ''

NON-FICTION

Thomas Sprat - ''History of the Royal Society''

BIRTHS

April 29 - John Arbuthnot

November 30 - Jonathan Swift

''probable'' - Susanna Centlivre

DEATHS

May 2 - George Wither

May 14 - Georges De Scudéry

July 28 - Abraham Cowley

August 13 - Jeremy Taylor