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The year '1647 in literature' involved some significant events.

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Events

New books

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Thomas Hobbes becomes tutor to the future Charles II of England.

★ The first folio collection of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon is published by Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley.

New books

★ ''Les principes de la philosophie'' (French version of René Descartes' original Latin work)

★ ''Philosophical Poems'' - Henry More

Births

★ April 1 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet (died 1680)

★ August 12 - Johann Heinrich Acker, philosophical writer (died 1719)

★ November 18 - Pierre Bayle (died 1706)

★ ''date unknown'' - Henry Aldrich, theologian (died 1714)

★ ''date unknown'' - Glückel of Hameln, diarist (died 1727)

Deaths

★ January 29 - Francis Meres, anthologist (born 1565)

★ May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, historian, poet and dramatist (born 1581)